OLD - where to start?

[SomewhereInMyHeart]

I’m mid 50s and divorced, live alone. Friends and family think I’m happily single but I’ve decided I really want to meet someone. I’m a bit scared to try OLD after all I’ve read here but I’m not a joiner-inner so don’t want to invest a lot of time in a walking club, evening class, sports etc. I work full time but mostly from home and when I’m in the office there are very few men who aren’t much younger than me. Or married! So I feel OLD is my best option.
Any tips/recommendations please?

OMG at

how r u

Can you imagine what this man would be like in bed? Actually let’s not…

Make a list of must have qualities and then nice to have qualities

Also make a list of your one great qualities and what you offer (just for yourself)

I found ok Cupid was a good free one as if you like eachother, you can message for free. Plenty more fish and tinder avoid.
Match is ok, but you do need to pay to message.

The man I'm about to finish with I met on ok Cupid, and it's been great, but long distance.
I met a married man too, and we've actually become great friends because we have so much in common 🤣
My sister is living with a man she met on match.

I've never had a dick pic,

What I would say is don't have high hopes, don't give out your phone number too early on, and take it as an opportunity to chat to some quite interesting people (or can spin a good yarn). Enjoy the attention, and use it as a place you can learn to say no, hit delete and block, but never take anything personally.

Oh how I love it when yet another man comes along and tells women to lower their expectations. 😂😂😂 women are just too demanding by expecting a man to make some kind of minimum effort.

I gave up online dating a few years ago, it’s expensive and I just ended up flicking through, went on a few dates but they never went anywhere.

my cousin has just met someone on match and they are engaged after two months, which is a bit quick for my liking and she has kids, but he seems genuine.

Yes. Women, this is how to date: lower your expectations until you resemble a hungry dog under the table begging for a tiny scrap of food, so grateful when a few crumbs are tossed in your direction.

It’s quite something, isn’t it?! 😂 Love a good bit of condescending. Honestly, who do these d*ckheads think they are? 😂

Well, given this is a man who's opening gambit was to try to make us believe men on OLD are encountering problematic numbers of women pretending to want relationships when they really just want sex, and are regularly sending out unsolicited pictures of their genitals to non consenting men...I think we may conclude that there may be a gap between this persons 'reality' and that of the rest of us.