Alternative to Guardian soulmates?

[Guardiansoulmates]

Where are all the quirky, slightly awkward, overly earnest blokes who earn peanuts and read interesting books? PLEASE don't tell me I have to sort through hinge to find them. It's like going to a bookcase and discovering the books have been redistributed throughout the house randomly. I don't have time to sort through these financial analysts and body builders looking for someone who plays the guitar and has a thought occasionally...

What replaced guardian soulmates, please?

Got one on my Hinge at the moment. If you've got a bodybuilder you don't want, I'm more than happy to do a swap 😊

Hello there. I hope its ok my replying to you on mum's net. ( I'm not exactly the right gender - sorry ) I just happened to be searching on Google witj the exact same question. (But from the opposite side ). I was once one of the soul mates. Now I'm single again and wondering where all the quirky, slightly awkward, bookish, thinking girls have all gone since soul mates disappeared. (Penniless or otherwise) I miss being able to meet someone that had something different to say. I did try match and bumble once. Just the usual run of the mill types but with added craziness. It's a sad world without it

Following with interest...

I met DH off Soulmates. It was one of a kind. Closest is probably going to be something like eHarmony.

I don't know where you would go specifically to find pretentious cocklodgers, but the Relationships board on here shows that there are still plenty of these guys about.

I'm following, but I don't want one who's skint, thanks.

Ah, I missed Soulmates. I then used Bumble and Hinge.

Met DP in real life, he earns buttons and I sometimes think wistfully about all the gilets I turned down.

Same Stevie..ive had dates lets just say they havent gone well... mismatched. I dont know where to look tbh...ive done OLD..i think im giving up. Im an avid book reader, like world cinema, alternative music, have dark sense humour etc...i find it difficult to find someone...its hard work lol. Id like to know where to look for people who would be compatible at least a little 👍

I met an intellectual on hinge (definitely not penniless though). Incredible family history, lived in 10 countries, speaks lots of languages and reads a book a week. But he's mine and no I won't give him away. I must have chatted with over 250 men and when I matched, he chatted straight away and the rest is history

So I'm sorry he will be on normal apps and you need to be lucky enough to match with him. I'm way less of an intellectual than him but we just get along enormously well (we matched in January 2022 so we've been together for a while now).

Every dating app, pub, wine bar, or party is a potential source of pretentious cocklodgers.... If you have children they'll morph into cockoos and try and edge your children out of the nest! I did meet a Scottish architect on Guardian Soulmates, in his favour he was Scottish, and very witty and fun, he was also a class A nut job... And that explained why he'd never married, didn't speak to his mum, had no friends aside from one, distinctly odd, flying monkey ex girlfriend who he'd thrown out of his flat one winter night, and she STILL stayed friends... The rest of them would set up a call, and then not call, and then say "oh, sorry, I missed the call, I fell asleep on the sofa.... " Whose sofa was never clear! One of the sofa sleepers phoned me and left a message on Christmas Day, months later, saying he was sorry he'd missed his call with me! There are a lot of frogs.

Guardian soulmates had some fantastic guys on it,
really interesting people.

It was really sad when it closed although by then, I was married.
But yeh where are the quirky?

How disappointing. When I saw the date on this thread and the guy who'd replied I was hoping for some romantic update. But no, it's just another randomly resurrected zombie thread 🙄

Am I the only one who found Guardian Soulmates completely underwhelming? I was totally in the market for the kind of bloke OP describes (and also am that kind of person) but I found it pretty much a desert when I was dating in the early 2010s, had much more luck on Okcupid (though that subsequently changed a lot if it even still exists). Was there some kind of golden age that I missed? By the time I was on GS it was starting to feel quite old fashioned and fusty compared to the apps, plus I always found the name completely cringe.