Shantae
Banned
Before anyone says it, I know...it's POF, what else should I expect. I've tried to be careful with whom I talk to on there. I only message women who I think I can have a connection with. Do they sound nice on their profile, do I think our interests are compatible, etc.
I've had plenty of experience with POF where 90% of the time, I've just gotten ignored, or blocked from simply saying hello and saying I thought we might have stuff in common and that I liked to talk. Online dating has certainly taught me that women are just as shallow, if not more so than men are. I've suffered for most of my life thinking I was ugly, but in recent years, I've come to think I'm not that bad. I think I can be handsome at times, and a few nice women I've meet have commented on how cute I can be. I know I have bad teeth in some respects, but I've done the best I can to work with what I got there. I'm not obese or anything, I could stand a trip to the gym, but at worst I have the beginnings of a "Dad bod".
Anyway, I recently signed up with POF again, because as far as dating sites go, I felt like I had the most success with it in the past. Never really had any long lasting relationships form from it, but at least have met girls who wanted to meet once in a while. That being said, even in my 30s, my dating experience is limited. The shallowness of women has led to me rarely getting actual dates with someone looking for a commitment, and so I do have difficulty putting myself out there for the purpose of finding a connection with someone. I still feel innocent in some ways because of my ignorance or naivety.
Which brings me to this weird exchange I had with a women I messaged recently. Like I said, I tend to not really message anyone unless their profile suggests that we might have a connection. Women rarely if ever make the first move on there, so I'm kinda forced to always browse the site and make an effort, which is exhausting and soul crushing after a while. This woman I messaged, I'll call her Lucy (fake name, but I don't wanna dox her or anything), I sent her a simply message just saying that I thought she was pretty, and she sounded like she was fun and I'd like to get to know more about her.
She messaged me back the following morning, and I didn't do anything to imply I was looking for sex, but she was kinda flirty from the get go. I'm not a virgin, but I'm also not used to receiving advances, so when she started to say certain things, I still tried to play it cool and laugh some of it off. I thought at least she sounded like she was a fun person who wasn't a prude at least. She seemed to appreciate my compliments, and I told her that I thought her profession was cool because it required a lot of schooling, and I tend to think intelligence is pretty attractive. She asked me if those kind of things were a fantasy of mine, and she said she was feeling naughty. She got to some sexual stuff because of that, and before I knew it, she started sending me nude pictures of her.
This was surprising, but it also started to set off some red flags, because I was worried that maybe this was a fake account. You don't get this kind of openness from someone right away I thought, at least I didn't get it right away. I did some simple sleuthing though, and she did have a facebook profile that matched up with everything I had seen about her. She lived where I thought, she worked at a location I was familiar with, etc. So I was at least convinced that this really the woman I was talking to.
Anyway, before I knew it, she was really feeling frisky she said, and she wanted me to be naughty for her. I told her that I was a bit embarrassed by the whole thing, and that I didn't want her to think that was all I was interested in. She told me not to be nervous, and that she wanted these things to put my mind at ease. I told her, that I was interested in more than that, that I'd like to meet her for coffee or drinks, and would she want to exchange numbers. She said yes, and she'd want to meet this week sometime.
Then all of a sudden in the middle of the conversation, she stopped messaging. I didn't think anything of it at the time, she had mention a couple times that she had to leave soon for errands. However it's been several days, and I've seen her pop up on POF, without a peep back at me.
I'm just so confused, and I wanted to vent this story, because as a guy who rarely ever gets this kind of attention, I'm bummed, and honestly sad. I had hoped I had met someone who might be fun, and wasn't a complete shut in when it came to sexual stuff like so many women on POF seem to be. I still keep wishing she would message me back, and say sorry, something came up...but now I just want to delete my POF account and forget about trying anymore.
I've had plenty of experience with POF where 90% of the time, I've just gotten ignored, or blocked from simply saying hello and saying I thought we might have stuff in common and that I liked to talk. Online dating has certainly taught me that women are just as shallow, if not more so than men are. I've suffered for most of my life thinking I was ugly, but in recent years, I've come to think I'm not that bad. I think I can be handsome at times, and a few nice women I've meet have commented on how cute I can be. I know I have bad teeth in some respects, but I've done the best I can to work with what I got there. I'm not obese or anything, I could stand a trip to the gym, but at worst I have the beginnings of a "Dad bod".
Anyway, I recently signed up with POF again, because as far as dating sites go, I felt like I had the most success with it in the past. Never really had any long lasting relationships form from it, but at least have met girls who wanted to meet once in a while. That being said, even in my 30s, my dating experience is limited. The shallowness of women has led to me rarely getting actual dates with someone looking for a commitment, and so I do have difficulty putting myself out there for the purpose of finding a connection with someone. I still feel innocent in some ways because of my ignorance or naivety.
Which brings me to this weird exchange I had with a women I messaged recently. Like I said, I tend to not really message anyone unless their profile suggests that we might have a connection. Women rarely if ever make the first move on there, so I'm kinda forced to always browse the site and make an effort, which is exhausting and soul crushing after a while. This woman I messaged, I'll call her Lucy (fake name, but I don't wanna dox her or anything), I sent her a simply message just saying that I thought she was pretty, and she sounded like she was fun and I'd like to get to know more about her.
She messaged me back the following morning, and I didn't do anything to imply I was looking for sex, but she was kinda flirty from the get go. I'm not a virgin, but I'm also not used to receiving advances, so when she started to say certain things, I still tried to play it cool and laugh some of it off. I thought at least she sounded like she was a fun person who wasn't a prude at least. She seemed to appreciate my compliments, and I told her that I thought her profession was cool because it required a lot of schooling, and I tend to think intelligence is pretty attractive. She asked me if those kind of things were a fantasy of mine, and she said she was feeling naughty. She got to some sexual stuff because of that, and before I knew it, she started sending me nude pictures of her.
This was surprising, but it also started to set off some red flags, because I was worried that maybe this was a fake account. You don't get this kind of openness from someone right away I thought, at least I didn't get it right away. I did some simple sleuthing though, and she did have a facebook profile that matched up with everything I had seen about her. She lived where I thought, she worked at a location I was familiar with, etc. So I was at least convinced that this really the woman I was talking to.
Anyway, before I knew it, she was really feeling frisky she said, and she wanted me to be naughty for her. I told her that I was a bit embarrassed by the whole thing, and that I didn't want her to think that was all I was interested in. She told me not to be nervous, and that she wanted these things to put my mind at ease. I told her, that I was interested in more than that, that I'd like to meet her for coffee or drinks, and would she want to exchange numbers. She said yes, and she'd want to meet this week sometime.
Then all of a sudden in the middle of the conversation, she stopped messaging. I didn't think anything of it at the time, she had mention a couple times that she had to leave soon for errands. However it's been several days, and I've seen her pop up on POF, without a peep back at me.
I'm just so confused, and I wanted to vent this story, because as a guy who rarely ever gets this kind of attention, I'm bummed, and honestly sad. I had hoped I had met someone who might be fun, and wasn't a complete shut in when it came to sexual stuff like so many women on POF seem to be. I still keep wishing she would message me back, and say sorry, something came up...but now I just want to delete my POF account and forget about trying anymore.
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