Sunday, January 23, 2011

Online Dating For The 30 Something Woman

By Owen Jones


Life just isn't fair, is it? Men get all the breaks. You have devoted all of your 20's to establishing your career. It really is not that you haven't been dating at all - you have, just not seriously. Now here you are 30 something and there is no long term relationship on the horizon.

You can actually hear your biological clock ticking. You have precious few years to find a man to fall in love with, make him fall in love with you, get married, and have a baby or it's lights out. You already know all of the men in your social circle. Not that they aren't nice guys, some of them, but none of them is your soul mate. What's a girl supposed to do?

Consider online dating. You have the opportunity to read hundreds of profiles and look at hundreds of pictures in search of that someone that will be right for you. Maybe he lives in the same city you do, maybe he will live across the country or even across the sea! You aren't restricted to just those men that you come in contact with personally. The possibilities are virtually infinite.

Is online dating safe, you might ask? Aren't the online dating sites made up entirely of perverts, sexual predators and weirdos in assorted shapes and sizes? the short answer is, no they aren't. Not any more anyway, if they ever were.

Maybe that was true when online dating first came on the scene but now it is main stream. It's as safe as you make it using common sense and sound judgment. Use the same caution that you would when meeting any stranger: ie don't give him your full name, address or cell phone number until you feel quite comfortable doing so.

These days, the Internet is more regulated than before. It is still very open, but there are many honest business owners on the net who regulate their websites, including dating agencies, in order to weed out the trouble makers. You can help make online dating safer too by informing the owner of the online dating agency if one of the members acts obnoxiously while online. I'm sure the person will be banned.

Don't rush headlong into a face-to-face rendezvous until you are confident and then make the first meeting in a very public place and during daylight hours. Give it a try! Mr. Right might just be only a few mouse clicks away




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