I met my current partner at an online dating website. At that time I was a single mom trying desperately to balance home and career. My ex-husband had walked out on our marriage of seven years to marry his amanti and I was left to raise our six year old daughter on my own.
I was working as a consultant in addition to my regular job in an effort to keep the financial situation steady and didn’t have any time to date even if I had wished to. But a couple of years ago I decided it was time to put the past behind me and reenter the dating arena. However, I was still trying to squeeze in two days of work into one and didn’t have the time to take the traditional dating route.
A friend of mine suggested online dating saying that she had found several nice guys that way. I was initially hesitant to try it but some research soon convinced me that in addition to free spirits like my amanti, there were also people looking for more lasting connections online.
With my friend’s help I soon found a dating site that seemed to have potential and created a profile. We spent an entire weekend crafting the perfect profile that we both felt described me and my preferences since she was insistent about the importance of a good profile.
My initial enthusiasm soon waned however as the first few connections that I got were totally uninteresting. None of those men had anything in common with me and I didn’t even proceed to the email stage with any of them.
Finally I decided to take matters into my own hands and the next weekend I logged on and conducted my own search through the site’s database. My husband tom’s profile was one of those I scanned and I found myself appreciating the wry humor with which he described himself. On a whim, I sent him an invitation and we got chatting that very night. Matters progressed rapidly after that and within a year I was ready to consider marriage once again. We’re currently engaged and hope to get married sometime next year.
