Finding the Love of Your Life Online

I am writing this from personal experience! We all know that social media pretty much rules the world anymore. It does everything for us: recommends products, restaurants, people, games, and vacations. It even finds us dates for a Friday night. A few years ago, I was having no luck in the love department. I was sick and tired of all the idiots I was meeting at the bar, sporting events, and even just walking down the street. I was finding psychos. There is NO other way to put that. I tried the website "Plenty of Fish" the year prior but I found it to be a dating menu for Facebook. It was a  free dating site and you could tell. I was finding people I grew up with, graduated with, old teachers, and so on. I was even "matched" with my older cousin (YUCK!!!!!!). This site recommended dates like Facebook recommends friends based on your informations. So that was my initial experience, which was frightening. I did date find someone and we dated for a few months but I stopped "liking" him. I gave up on online dating and started searching in the ways I first mentioned. These techniques lasted just a few months before I decided to try online again. This time I went to a pay site. I paid sixty dollars on Match.com, late one Saturday night in January of 2011, and it was the best decision of my life! After I designed and posted my profile I went to sleep. The next morning when I checked my account I saw I already had numerous messages. Crazy! One stood out and I responded to him first. I then started to weed my messages and responded back to a few. The first I responded to wrote me back and asked for my number so we could just skip the messaging back and forth and set up a date. I obviously did. This was Sunday and we set a date for that Wednesday. I answered a few more messages but did not really follow through with many after that. There was a big snow storm Monday into Tuesday. The roads were pretty bad but growing up in Pittsburgh it was no big deal. I didn't hear from my date until the afternoon of our big blind date. He just wanted to make sure I was still okay to meet him. I was. We met at Bar Louie in the Waterfront and it was love at first sight, believe it or not!!! We officially started to date exclusively two weeks after that. I moved in with him that June. The following fall, 2012, he was transferred to the Carolinas for a new job and asked me to go with him. We got engaged that christmas. We are getting married this coming January and we are expecting our first child in March!!! I joke when I'm asked how we met. I say paid sixty dollars for my "husband". We should be on a Match.com commercial. Online dating works. You just have to find a legit site. Paying is better than going to a free site.