Best Internet Dating Stories

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He Must Really Love You

Typically I could careless about dating. Don’t get me wrong; I love men. My social life is very active, but I have developed some disdain for the ritual of dating. One Saturday afternoon I got a wild hair and decided to branch out a bit . . . get away from my normal, or somewhat [...]

Love in the Time of John Stossel. He is 38, She is 16

His Story I am 39 now, last year I was 38, unsurprisingly. Back in 2002, I moved to Tucson from New York City with my then girlfriend who was an acceptable age in her early thirties. After we broke up I turned to the Internet to find someone who was better suited for me. I [...]

Offensive

I was sitting at the bar, drinking a dirty martini. Jake showed up at 10 past. “You must be Jake,” I said. “That would be me. Sorry I’m a little late. You’re Alice, I take it?” “I’m Alice.” “Ah, Alice, well, it’s good to meet you.” That’s how it started. After that, things heated up. [...]

Snow Tires

I decided to set up a profile on Match.com. I wasn’t looking for a date—just someone with a four-wheel drive and maybe a pal for company on a ski lift. My boyfriend and I had split up right before a scheduled Mammoth snowboard trip. I was determined to still go. I just needed a driving [...]

E-Date from Hell

Last summer I had officially hit dating rock bottom. After 11 months of either hanging with girls or dining alone, I decided to take the plunge and explore Online Dating: The Final Frontier. Until then, I thought online dating was for weirdos, stalkers, perverts, and people too unattractive to get a date the good, old-fashioned [...]

Unexpected Connections

The divorce was final, and I thought it was time to stick my toes back into the dating pool. Things were a little different this time around. I was over a decade older and had children. It wasn’t only about finding the right man for me, but about finding the right man for US. So [...]

Falling in Love in the Cyber World

I, like thousands of other people, decided to put a personal ad on the Internet. I was not sure what would come of this, but it had to be better than what I was meeting in real life. The first day I posted the ad I had so many messages that it was overwhelming. Being [...]

To the Jack Cave, Baby!

“This is uncharted waters and that’s what I’ve been looking for. You excite me with your words equally and I mean that in all sense that you paint a picture of yourself beyond the limiting fonts and layouts of a computer screen.” He wrote that during a free-form silly comic story we wrote via email. [...]

Getting Back on the Horse

I have been online dating since my divorce in 2001. How else does a 40-plus year old woman meet men? Certainly not at work (never a good idea) and all my friends are married or living with someone! I’ve signed up for classes to find them filled with women and men over 70. Most groups [...]

My Online Dating Success Story

It all began on a cold and rainy night in January 2002. Well, actually, I don’t remember if it was rainy or cold for that matter, but it did start in January. Yes, that evening I was feeling lonely, mostly because my mother had started to tease me about how long it had been since [...]