The Internet dating world is a cesspool

Oh, so I guess I shouldn't post this link of my old upstairs neighbor then from the night we played Truth or Dare?

 

Post that definitely. And Boots should post some pics of his backdoor neighbor also.

 

Woman: I know you said we should just be friends but I really want to give things another chance. Here's a long e-mail where I tell you I'm sorry you felt like I wasn't showing enough interest through two dates and I promise you it will be different, I feel like there might be something between us.

Me: OK, cool, let's give it a shot.

Woman: Neat! Oh, btw, now I'm going to start texting you live play by play of another date I have tonight. It's going well, I like him!

What in the actual fuck is this?

 

Dayum! I had a woman start texting me out of the blue like a year after we had gone on two dates. She thought we might try it again, but I just kind of let it fizzle. That's kinda weird.

 

Ha! I've had that same exact situation happen to me. Some people are bizarre like that. I can understand the slow fade, or the abrupt break-up, but the "let me contact you out of the blue and then fade again!" thing just boggles my mind. I guess some people just like to always be in contact with an option.

 

Sounds like a colossal waste of time unless she is BTHP.

Or perhaps you should suggest a FFM three way with one of her friends.

You never know. She could be into it and you'd become an SportsJournalists.com legend.

 

It's exactly what you should do to her next time you go on a date with someone else. Make it as graphic as possible, too. Detail every way in which your date is better looking and just plain more fun than she is.

 

I deleted all my accounts a month ago. It was getting to be too frustrating. Too many first and second dates costing too much time and money and getting absolutely nowhere.

This is going to read like a sitcom plot, but it's completely real.

As mentioned, the reason I'm dating again is because my wife of 10 years had an affair and left. The marriage could be best described as "platonic" including the last 4+ years as completely sexless, which she blamed on anti-depressant drugs before the separation and then after said that she'd never been attracted to me and only dated me to begin with because she depended on my friendship and didn't want to lose it.

OK, fast-forward. Remember the woman from a few posts up who wanted another shot after I told her "friends only" due to lack of chemistry? Well, we've gone through that same cycle a few times now. Meet a few times, call them "dates" because she insist on it, act completely platonically, I try to friendzone her, she convinces me to give it more time.

I still want to tell her that there's no chance of anything developing. I *should* tell her that, because she is basically a carbon copy of my ex-wife and this is everything I swore I would avoid when I got a second chance at dating. But I'm worried that if I bring it up she'll just talk me out of it again:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7fR0NheFPs

 

Just bring up an interest in adult cinema and see where it leads. You either chase her away or she's into it. Win-win.

 

Yep, yep, yep. Internet dating is not nearly as easy as it would seem. Too much work, too many first/last dates.