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OLD. Give up?

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spiritedawai · 08/08/2020 10:44

I've been on dates with three different people from OLD.

First one seemed perfectly normal. Really interesting. Went on 3 dates. All lovely. Then suddenly he turned in to an utter weirdo and announced he was actually married. Cue end of that!

Second guy was again, seemingly lovely. Then weirdness began. He was white and I'm mixed race. I wear wigs sometimes because when my hair is unbraided you can see my alopecia which isn't awful, but I'm anxious about it. They're beautiful wigs and I love them. Cue him being incredibly rude out of the blue about black women wearing wigs and appropriating white culture...

Third date, nice guy, but he had clearly used photos from years ago and was much older than he said he was. His profile said he was 31, he's actually 39. He told me on our 3rd date that he was older and his age was a mistake on his OLD. Very clear it wasn't a mistake and he was just using this to date younger women.

Should I give up on OLD? Is the knack to just keep trying? I was excited to start with. Now I'm just disheartened that I seem to attract weirdos!

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spiritedawai · 08/08/2020 10:57

Just received a lovely photo of someone's penis. Great Hmm

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Milkshake54 · 08/08/2020 11:00

Stick it out! I was OLD for 18months, met maybe 6 people in total before finding my now husband! We’ve been together 6+ years now.
There were frogs before I found my prince!

gingerfreckles · 08/08/2020 11:01

Which site are you using? I've not had much luck, I think/hope it's a numbers game.
I'll keep swiping in hope as it passes the time lol.

spiritedawai · 08/08/2020 11:02

Thanks @Milkshake54 that gives me some hope!

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spiritedawai · 08/08/2020 11:03

@gingerfreckles I'm on a few. Tinder is awful and I just deleted it. I'm on match and okcupid.

I wish I had the money to pay for a better site but I don't Sad

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itsme · 08/08/2020 11:10

After a few years of old 6 years ago I found okcupid one of the better ones, match was just as bad as pof, tinder badoo etc. I met my H2B on bumble (I paid for it).

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