Best website?

[Chocoholicforever]

Ok. So it's been a couple of years and as a stay at home parent I don't really get to meet anyone. Which online dating site has the least number of weirdos?! Babysitting is expensive so don't want to waste it with horror stories like I've heard from my friends! Would it be wrong to not include my photo (everyone knows everyone where I live) on the ad but could send if requested?

Sorry for all the questions, I'm all totally new to this! Thanks

Id love to know that too OP! From my own personal experience Online Dating is a waste of time!

Im 31 and never had a date or relationship from Online Dating, just plenty of odd bods and players! My personal advice AVOID at all costs if you wish to remain sane. I have come to the conclusion a relationship will happen when not looking but i have accepted i will highly unlikely ever meet someone.

You could try Guardian Soulmates. Avoid the ones where you don't have to pay, lots of time wasters on there. My advice is to meet in real life sooner rather than later as it's the only way to find out if there's any real chemistry between you. It's a bit hit and miss so be philosophical about it and see it as a way of practising your dating skills. Good luck!

Sandy - that's what I've thought but I'm a bit bored so thought I would give it a go!
Scarlet - thanks, will have a look at the guardian. I've heard the free ones are awful!

If you have any free time through e.g. your ex and some time to yourself then if you join meet up dot com they have good social group activities to meet new people without the focus being on pulling. So you can go out and mix and meet others and do an activity or share an interest. Both men and women go along and it isn't a dating situation so always an option.

I met my husband through e harmony. I met a couple of men before I met my now husband; none were weirdos. I'd recommend going to a site where you have to pay; this eliminates a lot of time wasters.
IMO a photo is essential. I didn't consider any profiles that didn't have a photo and I think most people are the same.
My advice is to be brutally honest in your profile and early communication with someone. Say it how it is. I wanted a serious relationship, marriage and kids and I said this in my profile. I didn't want to waste my time with people who didn't want the same.
All in all I found online dating good. You really have nothing to lose. If it doesn't work, just put it down to life experience! Lol

Try POF, but hide your profile - that way you get to do the choosing.

Thanks will look at meet up. Eharmony too. Pof is the one I've heard loads horror stories though!

Actually tinder isn't that bad these days, men who are not looking for hookups tend to state that in their profile. And they can only talk to you if you 'like' them also. I've been on two dates from tinder, one wanted to get me in a wedding dress ASAP which was scary, but second person was/is normal and decent.

Don't know about there being fewer weird people on paying sites - my friend went on her first ever online date from Soulmates; he was five years older than he'd put on his profile and had a fetish for smelly feet! (My friend walked out while he was in the loo.)

Is tinder the one linked to your Facebook? Can you say you don't want it to include friends of select friends (ie friends of your exs?!)

It is linked to Facebook but if people pop up who you know you just 'nope' them and they can't talk to you. However there is a chance they will see you on there, same as any other dating site.

Thanks nice - that's very true. Think I need to get past the fact that someone I know may see me on a dating site

Choc - this is my dilemma. I joined match.com last July just for 3 months and saw a couple of my EXs friends on there. I went on a couple of dates which were both disasters. I've also been on a couple of dates after meeting men out - one spent the whole night talking about his ex-wife (in a good way) and the other spent the whole night talking about his ex-wife (in a bad way). I really don't think there is anyone out there for me

Wish - did you message the ones before much (from match.com?) I've had mixed reviews from people say msg them a lot to see if they are weird or interested and others saying don't waste your time? It's so hard isn't it? In my early 20s (when I met XH) I never had trouble but then I was out half the week!

Yes I chatted with a few men. Two disappeared on me just before we were going to meet after chatting for a couple of weeks. I met one who looked nothing like his profile and he still lived at home with his Mum. And the other one talked so much I couldn't get a word in - he told me he'd met 80 women off dating sites and was looking for 'the one'. I got a bad feeling about him. He texted me about meeting again and when I said lovely to meet you, but not spark etc. he got a bit shirty and continued to pester for another date. I had to block him in the end.