Ah, the digital age. These days, it seems like every second person has met their partner online. Tinder. Plenty of Fish. eHarmony. Whatever floats your boat.
I had always refused to jump on the digital dating bandwagon. While I was eternally single, I believed in real life romance; in ‘what’s meant to be’. I believed that I would bump into The One at a party or a pub, at the gym or the grocers. Not Tinder.
But, after moving to a small town, being cat-called in the street and propositioned at the pub, I decided it was time to take hold of my destiny. My real life love story did not exist. It was time to investigate other avenues. So I installed Tinder.
At first, I was honestly just looking; lamenting the quantity and quality of the single men in my area. Until one popped up that wasn’t like the others.
He didn’t have any dead pigs. He didn’t have an Akubra hat. He didn’t even have a small-town country job. He was different. WHAT ON EARTH WAS HE DOING ON TINDER?
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my partner of almost 10 years and l met online on a singles chat site - so far as l know I've been his one and only ( better be !!! ) all these years BUT l know he was still on 'chat' sites while we were together in the early years because it was a past time that was hard to break. Friendships had developed there that were platonic ( these were pre FB days) but l also know he never met anyone other than myself IRL . Back then, if you weren't into the pub scene or have a huge social group or hung out with work mates how else did you meet people ? Myspace was newish and FB had yet to come along so it was chat rooms
This could be my ex. i dropped him like a hot patata!