For many people, the only way they meet someone is online. But, can true love be found online? According to The Date Mix, dating stats from 2017 show the following.

• Nineteen percent of new brides said their met the love of their life online
• Couples who meet online get married sooner
• Online marriages are less likely to end within a year
• More than half of singles in Great Britain have never dated anyone that they did not meet online.

So, does this give us a clue as to whether or not you can find true love online? The facts that couples who meet online get married sooner and that they are less likely to get divorced within the year are telling.

We recently asked the question; do you want a love life or a relationship?

Are you are new to the world of dating? Or are you back in the dating scene after breaking up with your last partner? In either case, it is useful to think about what you are looking for when you go out with someone. In short, do you want a love life or a relationship? Hopefully you want and will attain both. But for starters you should decide what your focus is and proceed accordingly.

One of the values of online dating is that you need to think a bit in order to post a resume. And, when you start meeting people, you get to sort through the list and decide which person you really want to get to know. The odds of you finding true love online are probably better just because you give the issue a little thought before having a face to face date. And, of course, the other person will have gone through a similar selection process, which ought to improve the odds of success even more.

If you know what you want in a relationship, your odds of success go way up.

To Thine Own Self Be True for the Relationship to Work

The truth is that it does not start with someone else and the relationship. It starts with you. That is what the quote from Shakespeare is all about. So, if you simply want to socialize, do that and widen your circle of friends. There is a lot to be said from dating several people to get a better idea of what dating is all about. Years ago we wrote an article, Kiss Twenty Boys. The point was to gain a bit of perspective on relationships and dating before making the choice of a lifetime.

The movies commonly show us variations on the theme, love at first sight.

You meet someone and fall head over heels in love but, does love at first sight last? On this web site we usually try to take an objective approach to dating, internet dating, and the development of relationships. But, sometimes the truth is more in what we feel than in a logical and reasoned view of life.

Providing that there are no deal-breakers like the person being an escaped felon or a stalker, there is validity to love at first sight. We are going to live with this person the rest of our life. So, we should find them attractive, trustworthy, and strong. Humans are wired to see a lot in a person intuitively. That having been said, your odds are better if you meet mister or miss right online and then are wowed out of your socks (or more) on the first date.