I figured I'd have a better shot dating off the apps. While I've gotten numbers and set up dates, the flakiness from the other parties continues. I'm really at my boiling point. I don't know what I'm doing wrong. I don't know what I'm doing right. I just don't know what to do anymore. I'm successful and in my early 30s and yet it feels like dating has never been more impossible. I'm so frustrated and I feel depression creeping in. Dating today sucks man.

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I think one of the things that makes online dating hard is we don’t feel accountable to people we don’t know.

If you’re M, I suggest planning a date within 2-3 days of asking (schedules permitting), confirming the plan a day before and avoid texting so much that you have nothing to learn about each other on a first date.

Unfortunately dating is work and I wouldn’t chalk it up to something you’re doing “wrong”. It’s not personal. Holiday times are always dead for dating as people are home a lot, maybe take a few weeks off and start again in the new year.

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Dating has sucked for a really long time, even before the advent of dating apps. My sister met her husband at a wedding - it didn't last. Nobody said to me, "Have I got a girl for you." In the olden days, there were personal ads that were placed in magazines and alternative weekly publications. I answered a bunch of them over the course of a few years, and went out on a lot of first dates, which ended up being last dates. I finally found someone with the same interests and mindset, where I didn't always have to take the initiative, and she didn't think that I was a project that she could mold into some ideal man. That was over 30 years ago, and our kids are now in college. Don't give up hope.

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My dad told me this when I was in a dating rut: “dating has always been hard.”

I read Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari and he covered the history of mail ads, VHS ads, etc. super interesting. Def helped me make the plunge into online dating, which ultimately is where I met my husband.

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Online dating is unrealistic. The best way to meet people is to volunteer in your community doing something you are passionate about. Food banks, church, homeless shelters, animal rescue…. The people you meet volunteering are genuine people that share the same passion as you. But I warn you, do not volunteer just to meet people. It is obvious and people will sense your true motives. People will be attracted to someone that shares the same passions and goals.

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Truer words have never been spoken.

Are you a M?

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