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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Retreater" data-source="post: 8663567" data-attributes="member: 42040">After my divorce I went all the way into online dating - and probably went out with 100+ people. Overall, it was a pretty negative experience, even before the pandemic. I used the opportunity to talk to numerous people about why online dating seemed so different than more "natural" dating - like when I was last on the market in the early 2000s. The common response was that no one respected each other - stereotypically men were pigs and women were inundated with so much attention that they didn't trust anyone. One thing I eventually learned was to always schedule a voice call before a date.I eventually gave up on dating, just hanging out with friends and going to karaoke and stuff - dressing like a slob and playing games. One night my friends bolted to hang out with another group. I remember that night singing "She F'ing Hates Me" and dedicating it to every woman in the bar. About 30 minutes later, I passed by a table of a woman I'd never seen there before, and stopped just to pay a compliment for her song choice. I was walking away and she struck up a conversation. She was a musician, avid D&D player, and we aligned on politics and religion. And despite years of online dating, talking to over 100 people (with whom I supposedly matched with due to algorithms), I found my wife by saying hi to a stranger.Thanks for that. And I'm very thankful for my online gaming - without it there would be little socializing at all in my life. There's just many aspects of face-to-face gaming I really miss.</blockquote>

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