Secret II

Let me let you in a secret of my own. When I was dating, meeting someone online still has a lot of stigmatism attached to it. I had to make up many stories about how I met my husband. Nowadays, looking for a partner is common practice, I can finally stood up and say that "Yes! I met my husband on a dating site! It cost of $19.99! He's practically a steal!"

What I don't understand is: I know many desperate women -- women who desperately wants to meet a nice guy. Some just refuse to go look online. Okay, that I can understand, it seems too desperate. I don't get those who will go online to look, even dating sites, but they refuse to PAY for it. Okay, any educated, knowledgeable women who earns a paycheck should know that, seriously women, for almost everything in life, you get what you paid for. Remember why you stop buying cosmetics from drug stores? Yes, same idea! Men from a free dating site is about the same quality as cosmetics from a drug store... or generic toilet paper... or generic feminine product. If you can afford it, you are better off with more expensive products.

Let me tell you what kind of men you can expect from a free site -- horny men. Sure, all men are, ultimately, horny. But these are obnoxiously horny men. They want sex. They want FREE sex. "I'm married. My wife goes out of town for work a lot. Must be discreet." WTF? "I'm 400 lb, I want to have sex with someone who's skinny and cute." WTF? Unless maybe if you are in your early 20's and just looking on myspace for the fun of it. Even then, the 20-something boy sitting next to me doesn't seem to have much luck with that. And he's not an unattractive man!

I've looked at the dating section on Craigslist. I didn't count, but there must be HUNDREDS of ads a day. Everything get buried within minutes. So people will either have to keep reposting their ad, or put a phony picture (i.e. picture of a sunset) to get you to look at their ad. Believe me, even if there are quality guys on there, you won't have that kind of time in the day to sort through all the ads to find the few quality ones that are far and in between. And if you do, you probably don't have a life and are not good enough for those quality guys.

So ladies, if you are already desperate enough to go browsing on a dating site AND desperate enough to tell me, whom you are not very close to, that you really would like to meet a nice guy. Shell out that $20 a month. It's worth every penny.