Comments on: LDS dating sites

By: Nicole

Nicole — Tue, 22 May 2007 20:35:47 +0000

I joined LDSSingles on a dare from a friend. Within 2 weeks I had found the guy that later became my husband. It’s been 4 years now – and we are each other’s best friend. We couldn’t be more compatible! Granted, it can be sketchy, but I believe that was our particular path. In fact I didn’t tell my mom the exact story until a year and change ago.

By: Spoon

Spoon — Tue, 22 May 2007 18:05:19 +0000

Your friend is lucky. He should get out of the cult before he gets embroiled in a fake marriage.

By: Eliza Roxcy

Eliza Roxcy — Mon, 21 May 2007 10:49:02 +0000

eHarmony is pretty decent and I know a few people who’ve met their spouses on the site. It’s a more general matching website but you can restrict the matches they make for you to only LDS if you so desire.

By: Tim Grascal

Tim Grascal — Sun, 20 May 2007 22:15:47 +0000

There is this new LDS website that’s pretty cool…more dating oriented though. But LDSFusion.com actually films people on dates and does a few other different things. But LDSlinkup.com I heard is a great place for just meeting friends.

By: Chelle

Chelle — Sun, 20 May 2007 17:57:32 +0000

I’ve met several normal, good, LDS guys on ldslinkup. Although nothing eventually came from it, ie I am still single, it has been a good experience, and can be a good way to meet people when you live in a place where there are not a lot of members or you are not 21 anymore.

Re 36 and 38: A bloggernacle dating forum could be interesting.

By: Jon in Austin

Jon in Austin — Sat, 19 May 2007 23:56:23 +0000

I initially saw the woman who ended up becoming my wife on ldsmingle. I tried to chat with her and got ignored (apparently my profile had one too many What About Bob quotes.)

Fast forward four months to a singles ward prayer and I started talking with a hot girl that seemed vaugely familiar. The next day it hit me that Internet Girl and Hot Girl At Ward Prayer were one and the same!

The rest is history.

By: Seth R.

Seth R. — Sat, 19 May 2007 05:47:43 +0000

Ronan,

I hear the bad experiences with dating websites, and warnings. Point well taken.

But for a bit of perspective, the guy is already really unhappy. Is a shallow, slightly unhinged, or otherwise less-than-desirable wife going to make things all that much worse for him?

I know I’m being flippant here, but I am half serious.

I’m reminded of that scene in the French movie “Amelie” where you’ve got two unhappy people: one a neurotic embittered ex-husband who camps out at the diner where his ex-wife works obsessively taking notes of all her “crimes” and the other, a depressed middle-aged woman whose main pastime is constant complaining.

Amelie plays cupid to the two with mixed results. On the one hand, the match-making bit works splendidly. But there’s the predictable emotional meltdown later. But no one can deny it made an interesting change for all parties concerned.

At a certain point, you’ve got to let go and realize that people are who they are, and they will invariably end up with the sort of people that people like them end up with, and no amount of paternalistic impulse on your part can change that.

I would steer him away from entanglement with the Russian mafia however.

I don’t think he’s quite THAT unhappy.

By: Mark IV

Mark IV — Sat, 19 May 2007 01:44:20 +0000

Am I the only one who finds it ironic and really, really funny that we are all here on a Friday night chatting online about dating?

By: Ann

Ann — Sat, 19 May 2007 01:37:01 +0000

I met my DH about a little over ten years ago on ldsfriends. I haven't looked at it much since. Back when we got married, people were startled to find you had met your spouse on the internet. Now, it seems, everybody is doing it. I just hopped over there to see what it was like. The search option didn't seem to work. Oh well. It was free.

By: Ann

Ann — Sat, 19 May 2007 01:32:25 +0000