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Originally Posted by TishaBuv
I’m so old I used to use personal ads in the newspaper! Remember the Pina Colada Song?
I met my husband at a bar during happy hour. 
There was a certain energy I’d have about me when I was single and ‘looking’. Maybe it was an approachability and men picked up on it. Yes, I was young and fairly attractive, but a good number of men noticed and took interest in me when I came into contact with them around town. I was warm and friendly and showed them I found them interesting.
I can see how every Mr. Wrong is looking for a booty call at turbo speed online. Hopefully, you can weed them out and find Mr. Right soon. |
Ha ha I remember the personal ads! Oh those were the days! Remember Craigslist ads where you'd mention someone you saw in person, hoping they'd read that section and find each other again.
My sister met her husband in a bar; she gave him a fake name at first but then he won over her trust by the end of the night, when he prepaid for a cab to take my sister and her friends back to their house (he didn't go with them, he went home to his own house). Then a few months later, he went on a family trip with us, and I like to take credit for convincing my sister to marry her husband while on the trip.
Hopefully the OP will slow things down with the men she meets online -- if she continues to date online. Or slow things down with men she decides to meet from other clubs offline. I think in general, the consensus here is to take your time, slow down, and take sex off the table and get to know the man before things really get physical, as the