My Mom and Date.com

I set up a online dating personal ad for my mom at Date.com this weekend. Mom is a lovely 63-year-old woman. We live in a small town and I see a lot of mature men around, but meeting them, that’s the hard part. Mom works at a foster family agency and single gentlemen her age don’t come into her work. Her interests include working in the garden, yoga, hiking, dancing…. all put the dancing is a solitary pursuit.  Meeting new people, it can be challenging. It would be wonderful if she could find a dance partner, at the very least.

Mom is cute, petite and smiley. You’d think those mature men would be all over her profile, filling up her inbox. So far, no so much. One man who is 70 sent a greeting. Mom is a very young 63 – active, like I mentioned. I’m not sure that an older man, who is admittedly overweight and 70, is what she’s looking for. Not that I have a problem with people who are overweight (I’m soft and on the fluffy side myself right now), but if a man is not taking care of himself at that age, how much longer is he going to be around? 

Putting up an online dating profile, it just doesn’t seem to get the traffic that it used to get. I’ve noticed that with not only Mom’s profile, but a few of friends, and my own profile.  Even on free sites like Date.com and Plenty of Fish.  I wrote a couple of months ago about how the economy is supposedly making the online dating places surge with new daters. Then, I wrote that people aren’t dating as they can’t afford it. 

At this point, I’m leaning toward the decrease in daters, rather then the increase.  It’s possible that people are setting up profiles, but the economy is putting a damper on their enthusiasm to do anything about meeting anyone. That’s too bad, because when things get tough, we could all use a hug.  You need a partner for that.

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