Truthful but likely unsuccessful dating profiles
Jun 11, 2016 21:31:57 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2016 21:31:57 GMT -5
[please feel free to add your comments and/or embarassingly truthful dating profiles here]
Ok, so for my own mental health I am not currently allowing myself to attempt to date. I have set the arbitrary requirements of getting a job, joining and participating in a hiking meetup group, and taking some requisite non-selfie profile pix as the pre-requisites to making a dating profile.
I am afraid that were I to try "dating" now, the results would be disappointing. The only ones who would be attracted now would be solely seeking sex. Which for me would ultimately lead to more depression, self-loathing, feeling used, feeling the effort is not worth the return.
However, like any forbidden activity, I can't help but have my mind focus on the topic a disturbing proportion of the time. Just as once it seemed sex was what my life needed to be perfect, now what my life needs which I am obsessed with is dating (aka male companionship including a physical component as well as a true friendship and alll the best relationship parts like spending the night, awaking together, morning sex, breakfast making together, just hanging out, walking dogs, etc)
So as I don't want to damage my fragile mental health, I stick to my dating ban. Yet on boring lonely Saturday nights, I sometimes fantasize about making a shockingly true self-deprecating online profile:
"Recently separated female, 43, seeks similarly unattached male.
She is the perfect embodiment of the term, "indoorsy.". She adores her retired race dogs (perhaps a bit too much; in her defense, while they do have clothes, those are winter coats they need owing to their thin fur and freakishly low body fat. She believes firmly in the concept of working to live, not living to work. She was delighted that her involuntary, unintentional divorce diet dropped her bmi dowm a couple notches in the "merely" overweight category. She is enjoying the summer weather, but looking forward to "cuffing season," and staying inside to "netflix and chill" with one special someone."
I am itching to post this as a profile to a dating site just as a form of entertainment, curious to see the response, if any. However I'm afraid actually logging into a dating site may lead to a slippery slope to meaningless sex, so for now I resist and attempt to distract myself.
Mind you, I'm not likely to meet anyone in person to date as I am a committed introvert and hanging out with people in the hopes of meeting datable people is not something I am going to do when meeting someone is as easy as meeting online. Perhaps I will be driven to this by the dismal realities of online dating later on but for now I'm content to aim for low hanging fruit. Also I am not the most approachable person "in the wild," I have a mean resting bitch face and for the most part want to be left alone. My parents raised me to be uber defensive and suspicious of strangers and I've never quite been able to shake that off, plus my new vulnerability as a woman alone is exacerbating my tendency toward self protection at the cost of human connection. So when I feel it is time and I can truthfully craft a more attractive self-description, online dating will be my first foray into the brave new world.
Ok, so for my own mental health I am not currently allowing myself to attempt to date. I have set the arbitrary requirements of getting a job, joining and participating in a hiking meetup group, and taking some requisite non-selfie profile pix as the pre-requisites to making a dating profile.
I am afraid that were I to try "dating" now, the results would be disappointing. The only ones who would be attracted now would be solely seeking sex. Which for me would ultimately lead to more depression, self-loathing, feeling used, feeling the effort is not worth the return.
However, like any forbidden activity, I can't help but have my mind focus on the topic a disturbing proportion of the time. Just as once it seemed sex was what my life needed to be perfect, now what my life needs which I am obsessed with is dating (aka male companionship including a physical component as well as a true friendship and alll the best relationship parts like spending the night, awaking together, morning sex, breakfast making together, just hanging out, walking dogs, etc)
So as I don't want to damage my fragile mental health, I stick to my dating ban. Yet on boring lonely Saturday nights, I sometimes fantasize about making a shockingly true self-deprecating online profile:
"Recently separated female, 43, seeks similarly unattached male.
She is the perfect embodiment of the term, "indoorsy.". She adores her retired race dogs (perhaps a bit too much; in her defense, while they do have clothes, those are winter coats they need owing to their thin fur and freakishly low body fat. She believes firmly in the concept of working to live, not living to work. She was delighted that her involuntary, unintentional divorce diet dropped her bmi dowm a couple notches in the "merely" overweight category. She is enjoying the summer weather, but looking forward to "cuffing season," and staying inside to "netflix and chill" with one special someone."
I am itching to post this as a profile to a dating site just as a form of entertainment, curious to see the response, if any. However I'm afraid actually logging into a dating site may lead to a slippery slope to meaningless sex, so for now I resist and attempt to distract myself.
Mind you, I'm not likely to meet anyone in person to date as I am a committed introvert and hanging out with people in the hopes of meeting datable people is not something I am going to do when meeting someone is as easy as meeting online. Perhaps I will be driven to this by the dismal realities of online dating later on but for now I'm content to aim for low hanging fruit. Also I am not the most approachable person "in the wild," I have a mean resting bitch face and for the most part want to be left alone. My parents raised me to be uber defensive and suspicious of strangers and I've never quite been able to shake that off, plus my new vulnerability as a woman alone is exacerbating my tendency toward self protection at the cost of human connection. So when I feel it is time and I can truthfully craft a more attractive self-description, online dating will be my first foray into the brave new world.
. I actually think it might attract like-minded men with a dark sense of humor. I say, go for it. Why not? You could always change it later. 
