Online dating...what am I not doing right?

Just from my own experience...

To atariblue

I don't know you personally, so this is just my general opinion:

I think a strong focus on finding a life partner can be the problem. Firstly, it puts your heart out on your sleeve and often that makes someone come across as desperate (for love). Women generally aren’t attracted to desperate men. A girl like me can smell a desperate man a mile away.

Driving for the end goal is a set up for disappointment. It actually changes the way you interact with women. I find that guys that want that life partner are too quick in asking for histories and futures. The information sharing isn’t fluid or natural, but forced. They don’t want to play––they just want to find out information to see if you’re a match, rather than wanting to have fun with you because they think you’re a great person. This makes it feel that they are more interested in having a relationship rather than developing a relationship.

We all know that to achieve the end goal you have to make smaller goals as stepping stones. Make your first goal to have fun. That will change your approach to dating and it will change the way you interact with women. It’s great to be with a guy who wants to have fun and then after many fun dates/interactions, you can both decided TOGETHER ‘hey, we’re pretty good together’.

Ask ‘how' questions as opposed to ‘why' questions. How questions are safe and non-intrisive. It requires the girl to talk about actions in an objective way. How question keep things light and fun. Why questions are too intimate for first stages of dating/interaction as they are about finding out how a person ticks. A girl doesn’t want to expose herself too quickly (unless she is desperate herself) she wants to have fun, play and be enjoyed without having everything she says being analysed to see if she could be a life partner. Thats not to say you cant have deep intellectual conversation––that’s fun too––but don’t get too personal too quickly.

And don’t talk about problems, especially how hard it is for you to find a life partner. ;) That’s an invitation to allow her to distance herself, saying “Don’t worry, you’ll find someone one day” (meaning, not her). If such, you have automatically put yourself in the friend zone!

I guess my point is, desperate people tend to rush things, they are too eager and therefore fail to represent themselves as who they really are. Girls want to know YOU, not a hyperactive relationship-seeking version. Keep your end goal for the end. Just start with the first step––enjoy. <3

There are so many nice guys on here. I'm amazed. I haven't RP with you (yet) but you sound great! Though, I'm not the kind for a monogomous relationship. I like to have a harem of guys ;) ...lol
 
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After reading this thread it's not any wonder we don't all turn into lesbians - women are horribly superficial? (One of my favorites since men are never superficial *sarcasm*). Women on dating sites can't get dates? Women are only after money? I hope you're all single because if not what does that say about the women with you?!?!

To the OP, someone on here said a good woman won't care about your height or your income. I agree with this statement. But I also think if you really want to meet someone you might need to do the pay sites - someone who is willing to pay likely does want to meet someone. You weed out the bots and scammers mostly too. But I think the most important advice was just let it be - find happiness within yourself and if a good one comes along (be it online or however) it is just an added bonus. We put so much stock in finding someone that sometimes we end up settling and miserable (hello personal experience).

I hope you find what you're looking for - and much happiness along the way. :rose:
 
After reading this thread it's not any wonder we don't all turn into lesbians - women are horribly superficial? (One of my favorites since men are never superficial *sarcasm*). Women on dating sites can't get dates? Women are only after money? I hope you're all single because if not what does that say about the women with you?!?!

To the OP, someone on here said a good woman won't care about your height or your income. I agree with this statement. But I also think if you really want to meet someone you might need to do the pay sites - someone who is willing to pay likely does want to meet someone. You weed out the bots and scammers mostly too. But I think the most important advice was just let it be - find happiness within yourself and if a good one comes along (be it online or however) it is just an added bonus. We put so much stock in finding someone that sometimes we end up settling and miserable (hello personal experience).

I hope you find what you're looking for - and much happiness along the way. :rose:

This is all entirely true ... I met my husband (who I'm still in love with after 17 years) at a point where I'd sworn off love for EVER after being screwed over one too many times (and trust me, the last one was a doozy that literally involve traversing the globe). I was happy in myself, doing things I loved, and just having casual sex with OK guys, which was all I wanted. Because I wasn't 'looking', he fell for me, not some version of me I was projecting in the hope of snaring a guy. It's really difficult, because when you're wanting love, you just are wanting love, but unfortunately one of the better ways of finding it is to tone down the 'wanting' a bit. Just have fun and see how things go.

And FD - good god yes! I love how people can categorise half of the entire human race as 'superficial' or 'money-hungry'.
 
Oh baloney. Of course they care. Now, how much those variables count, that is another story. And if someone has little income, the reasons why that is the case are also relevant.

I think you're over-reading the statement. The OP suggested (or possibly outrightly stated) that women are only interested in tall and/or relatively well-off men. While this is probably the case for some women, it's definitely not so for all of them.
 
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