Converting Online Dating Prospects to an IRL Relationship

Here’s one reason we struggle with this conversion

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At this point in online dating, I have zero concern for whether a man’s photos in his online dating profile don’t strongly resemble what he looks like in real life.

I couldn’t care less if he’s chubbier or older in real life than his photos led me to expect.

And men, I’m on to your tricks: When all your photos show you wearing a ball cap, I know what that means.

Tell you what: I’ll accept your balding pate if you’ll accept my wrinkles. (I swear I didn’t photoshop my pictures or use filters. The fine lines just don’t show up in pictures though lawd knows they do in real life.)

For me, the failure to convert online dating prospects to relationships doesn’t have anything to do with anything in the physical realm.

For me, the glitch with online dating is: I love men in written form.

I love reading what men write. When they suggest we move offline to in person, I do it because I know that’s a must. You’re supposed to. But I forever miss the written version of the fella.

The written version is the guy I fell for. And the written version almost always eclipsed the in-person version.