Fast
forward to dating in the year 2013 where both life and love have grown more
complicated. Don't despair however, the outlook is not all doom and gloom. As
long as you can access the Internet, adventure is right at the end of your
finger tips with countless opportunities to link up. Dating services are a huge
portion of TV advertising featuring tailored categories for one and all. eHarmony is big here as elsewhere but if you
want to target a specific demographic group there's no problem. We have
Christian Mingle, our Jewish friends can access J Date, the list includes Black
People Meet, Asian Dating, Amigos, Gay Dating, Seniors Dating (not to be
confused with “Our Time for Singles over 50” or “Professional Singles over 40”.
)
While
my roommate and I have zilch interest in dating ourselves, we do have an array
of eligible sons and daughters, grandsons and granddaughters on the active
bachelor/bachelorette rosters. So as senior consultants it's prudent for us to
stay current on people-meeting-people. The very thought of our Loved Ones
constantly prowling the bars in search of Mr/Ms Right is a depressing thought
for us as well as for them. Dating services are not infallible but they do
provide a certain sense of controlling one's own destiny. Now you can have more
going for you than just Aunt Marion's word that “she has a lot of personality”
or your teammate at work saying that “he's more than your average computer
guy.”
Still,
at least for us, it's certainly better to be observing rather than playing
today's dating game.
