Meeting the wrong type of man time and time again, I decided to take matters in my own hands. A few years ago my family and friends would have frowned upon the idea of meeting the love of your life through a piece of electronic equipment that sits on a desk. But things have changed and now everyone is meeting online. In fact, online dating has become so popular that there is a whole sea of internet dating sites that could probably make up it's own cyber country.
One night, while spending a dateless Saturday at home in front of the high definition, surround sound tube I saw the answer to my problem. A commercial featuring happy couples who met using the ever-so popular website, E-Harmony. The gentleman on the commercial started explaining this proven formula that could actually match you with someone is perfect for you. Wow! Could this person have discovered the mystery of finding a good man? I was sure willing to give it a try, especially since you could set up a profile and view your matches for free!
After the commercial, I immediately ran over to my computer and typed in the words that I thought would change my life forever: www.eharmony.com. The site looked quite impressive, and there were pictures of happy couples that convinced me that the special formula worked. After exploring the site for a while and reading the wonderful testimonials, it was time for me to set up my profile.
After the usual entering your email address, name, and all that usual stuff, it was time to answer the personality profile questions. There were so many questions that it actually took me at least two days to get through them all, only because I was getting tired and it just seemed like I would never finish. But if these questions were going to be the key to my happiness I'd take the chance. After I finally finished answering all of those questions, it was time for me to read my printable personality profile broken down into the following categories: Agreeableness, Openness, Emotional Stability, Conscientiousness, and Extraversion. Well that seemed to cover it all, quite impressive.
The report was easy to understand and described me to a tee! How did the computer get to know me that fast? Anyway, it was time for me to see my matches and this is where thing totally fell apart.
On my homepage, there were 5 matches waiting for me. I was extremely picky in my preferences. I thought to myself, well at least they are not operating this site like some type of dating factory. I decided to click on my first match. I was surprised to find that there was no picture since I clearly stated I only wanted matches with photographs. No need for surprises if you know what I mean. There was only a note in the photograph spot that alerted me that I must be a subscriber to see the photograph but I could send a free icebreaker (whatever that was).
Okay, no big deal. I then read the profile of this gentleman and was quite impressed about how he looked in writing. So I decided I wanted to meet him. There was a link entitled “Start Communication” and I clicked it since that is what I wanted to do. There was an entire list of multiple choice questions that E-harmony would deliver to your prospective mate, and you are allowed to pick 5. I chose 5 question and hit send ( or submit I can't remember) and got a message that I must be a paid subscriber. It would not let me go any further unless I chose a subscription plan. What ever plan you chose, for example the 19.95 a month plan had to be paid up front for the whole 12 months. Okay, back to the drawing board. I went back to my homepage and clicked some of the other links and received the same message.
I refused to become discouraged so I said to myself, “What the heck. Go get your credit card and pay 59.95 for a one month membership.” Since I know from life experience that you get what you pay for I was positive I would find a quality man for that price. You can't put a price tag on true love.
I joined for a month and found that you are matched with people who did not pay for a membership, and with people who did pay for a membership. The one person that I was matched with that actually paid for a membership was not what I was looking for. Did I just get bamboozled by E-harmony? It seemed quite unfair that I could not be matched with people who had paid subscriptions, I mean I did fork up $60.00! There was very little communications with potential mates since you could only communicate with subscribers, and there were very few hits to my profile, which I found out from a friend was due to the fact that many people had pages and pages of potential matches, depending on how they set up their search criteria.
I guess the little electronic box on my computer stand did not contain the answer to my love problem. I'll go back to the traditional ways of meeting people and hope one day that true love will find me.
