When writing about your adventures in online dating, at some point you have to stop procrastinating and go on an actual date. Lord knows I had been tippy-toeing around this whole dating thing for long enough. Since I had already crafted my profile, paid for membership, and told my friends I was finally doing this, the time had finally come to go on an actual date.

I read an article that said there are over 1500 online dating sites in the US. Holy cow... Seriously?! I wanted the “right answer” to be clear. It wasn’t. I was just going to have to pick a platform and trust myself to figure it out.

I’m not some salesy marketing exec who knows just how to write something catchy that will go viral with their target market. I’m not completely comfortable selling myself, and isn’t that what a profile is meant to do? And omg, how am I supposed to write something that connects with my target audience when I’m not even sure how to realistically define my target audience? This is so outside my comfort zone.

In the years since my divorce, I have had many reasons not to try online dating. Let’s be honest. The hard truth is that I really hoped that I wouldn’t have to. I hoped that meeting eligible guys would happen naturally and I wouldn’t be required to get so far outside my comfort zone, but guys that are a good fit for me are not going to just show up at my door.