I just got finished reading my favorite blog: "Single in the Suburbs." Click here if you want to check it out. This writer, a divorced mom, posts a blog entry every other Monday about her dating life on-line. I stumbled across her blog a couple of years ago and I have been keeping tabs on her love life ever since. I find her to be witty, brutally honest and just plain entertaining.
And I think we have a lot in common.
I tried match.com. My ex-husband had been moved out of the house for over a year and our court date was set. He had been dating someone for about 10 months and I had accepted that there was no chance of us getting back together. (Yeah, I know...slow learner.) I had stumbled upon Match.com by accident one day when I thought I was clicking a link to an article, and instead found myself on this online dating site.
After ignoring the invitation to "try it three days for free" or maybe it was "look all you want," I left the site and thought that maybe I had gone temporarily insane. But then I was back a couple of days later and decided what the heck, it couldn't hurt. I really wanted to meet someone to go out to dinner with or see a movie.
I've been on and off that site a couple of times in the last few years. I haven't been on since last fall and don't plan on checking it out again. (I'm happily dating someone.) But at the time, it was great. I realized that though I never came across any single, eligible men that I wanted to date, in my day-to-day life--they were definitely out there. As a divorced parent, it had renewed my hope that I did have a future I would be able to move on to, when for so long I could never envision it.
If you are newly divorced, and wondering where in the world you can meet eligible singles, you should check it out. And don't forget about the blog I told you about. I find it so entertaining; and if you like it, you can read 64 installments right up front. I hate that I have to wait two weeks to hear what this midwestern mom is up to next! Personally I think it is a no-brainer that the guy she is dating now is not for her...