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| Worrisome tendency in Success Stories
Posted: 7/25/2009 12:17:19 PM | | I skimmed through responses quite quickly but was surprised to see no one mentioned the economy as having a potential impact. I mean, it increases anxiety for a lot of people... | |
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| Worrisome tendency in Success Stories
Posted: 7/25/2009 12:17:31 PM | | No, what I find really scary is someone who is obviously on POF, and doesn't realize it, or projects self comptempt onto others who don't quite measure up to who knows what standards. | |
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| Worrisome tendency in Success Stories
Posted: 7/25/2009 12:25:03 PM | @kpooks--Oops, skimmed too fast and repeated your reasoning. Oh, well, great minds think alike. Besides, it's uppermost in my mind at the moment.
As to marriage, I will happily commit to someone but marriage is a legal financial partnership wherein the couple is considered a single legal and financial entity, more or less. I will never put myself in that position again.  | |
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| Worrisome tendency in Success Stories
Posted: 7/25/2009 12:54:13 PM |
Could be people putting off their weddings due to financial reasons--the economy is tight.
I'm not really seeing the economy being all that tight where I live. Judging by the number of new luxury type cars that are currently being parked on my starter-home neighbourhood street, the fact that in less than a month a brand spanking new mega mall is opening up just north of my neighbourhood, the real estate market is flourishing and my city (for that matter, perhaps all of Canada) is currently experiencing a baby boom - I wouldn't say that the economy is all that tight where I live. I don't recall hearing of anyone putting off getting married either. While there have been layoffs in my city, for the most part, people seem to just be going on with their lives the same as they did last year and the year before and the year before that and so on. | |
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| Worrisome tendency in Success Stories
Posted: 7/25/2009 2:35:56 PM | This is the info requested in the report your success story form:
Pick the one that best describes your relationship state ie are you married engaged or just in a relationship?
Formed Relationship on:
Engaged on:
Married on:
Your email: (for us or reporters to contact you)
Your Phone number: (for us or reporters to contact you)
Zipcode/Postalcode:
Country
Picture of you and your match:
Tell us how you met and give others hope so that they can find the kind of happiness that you have found!!!
Clearly, Markus thinks there are other forms of success than marriage. . . . As do most of the peeps who post here, lol!
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| Worrisome tendency in Success Stories
Posted: 7/25/2009 2:38:49 PM |
As I recall, Markus started the Success Stories section in early 2007.
i remember it being there in 2006 when i met my ex. he thought we should post our story there - good thing we didn't!
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| Worrisome tendency in Success Stories
Posted: 7/25/2009 3:08:47 PM |
is there simply a fatique in reporting the happy endings?
Or a third, more likely, situation. Most people, when they become somewhat "serious" about someone will leave an online dating board. That might happen at the 2 month mark. I know that I stop visiting the site, when I'm focused on one person in particular, at a very early stage in the potential relationship.
Some people cancel their profile entirely at that point. So, we never get to hear how that all turns out a year or two later.
Some, as you say, just don't see a point to telling the world about their relationship, and simply leave without much detail.
I don't think one can infer anything meaningful from the success stories. | |
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Posted: 7/25/2009 5:23:46 PM | hereIgoagain2009, I look at your picture and falsely think there might be a sweet and happy person in that skin ... Perhaps that's why you chose it? Or stole it from another site? I am wondering if you a kid who is getting their kicks needling the masses.
I think the idoc picture is cute and I wish you luck Idoc with your future success story.
I also think the successful couples look adorable and happy even though they are not gorgeous. It seems hereIgoagain2009 thinks they should all have been euthanized for being imperfect. Thank goodness for this site so we imperfect ones can find someone.
Success on a dating site is to find a date, is it not? If this were a marriage and long term relationship site only, then I guess the success rate would suck. | |
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Posted: 7/26/2009 4:40:57 AM | Kurtosis - Msg 35
Success on a dating site is to find a date, is it not?
Finding a date hard to quantify and might not mean much. I define "success" as "penetration".
The above definition would apply to a single date event only.
To qualify for entry in the official Success Stories, you need a meaningful series of those occurences. | |
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| Worrisome tendency in Success Stories
Posted: 7/26/2009 5:22:30 AM |
I skimmed through responses quite quickly but was surprised to see no one mentioned the economy as having a potential impact. I mean, it increases anxiety for a lot of people..
Negative people can always find things to feed into their anxiety. The historical fact is that people have a greater propensity to marry and have children, when their finances are challenged. The more affluent, on average, have fewer children than the poor, etc..
In any case, it isn't as if this is the "Great Depression". The Obama recession has increased unemployment, yes, but that doesn't affect those who have jobs, or not very much, and the truth is that 90% of people have jobs, and with the "safety net" built into our society, even those who don't, aren't thrown into homelessness or starvation. | |
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| Worrisome tendency in Success Stories
Posted: 7/26/2009 2:04:37 PM |
i remember it being there in 2006 when i met my ex. he thought we should post our story there - good thing we didn't!
Lol! You could be right! I got briefly involved in January of 2007, and that's when I noticed it. There were only a few pages then. And we thought the same thing ::grin:: Live/learn.
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