Dumped because I don't have children

[Bixg]

... or possibly for being a sad old spinster well, not quite but a serious WTF scenario.
I joined bumble a few weeks ago and after weeding out a few pervs and oddballs have been talking to a nice guy for a few weeks. So tonight we've been chatting and he asked if I had children. I replied "no, and no ex-husbands, how about you?" and looked forward to finding out a bit more about him. No reply so just logged into my account and he's done a runner on me! Is this normal for OLD? I really can't hack this nonsense if it is normal. Sadly I think you'll all tell me it is

I'm sorry @Bixg , I didn't rtft.

Online dating is hard , you have my sympathy. When people disappear you kind of know that you hit upon one of their dealbeakers but never find out which one.

OLD is a minefield!
I'd rather have someone with no baggage.
No kids would work perfectly for me (and currently is)
Or they need to be grown up and basically left home.
We all have different things we want in life when we get to this sort of age.
Keep looking, you'll get there.
Are you on Tinder?
It's usually better for our age group.
People aren't usually looking for hook-ups.
There's also an on-going OLD thread in relationships which is meant to be pretty good.

People disappear all the time. I had one a couple of weeks ago who messaged me first and seemed keen and suitable, so I replied - then nothing. And he’s been online every day since... You can’t take it personally or read too much into it.

Honestly I've heard bumble has lots of fake profiles to lure you in!

Hells I read the dating thread sometimes and it just depresses me as the stories on there aren't very positive on the whole. I also thought Tinder was more of a hookup site so haven't joined (my gay friend uses it for hook ups a lot!)

I'll give Tinder a go tonight and see where I get.

That is just one of the many problems with internet dating but if he deleted you for that I'd say be grateful you didn't meet him and things hadn't got any further

You just have to be picky on Tinder.
If they can't even string a sentence together to let me know something about them - swipe left.
If all pics are in sunglasses - swipe left
If all pics have no smiles - swipe left
I can't bear all the pics of cycling, diving, fishing, golfing, etc....
And if they think it's OK to have their pic taken with a drugged up tiger then they aren't for me either.
In my profile description I make it very clear to them that sending dick pics over the WWW is not big or clever and if they do that then they need to swipe left.