Internet dater: ‘Online dating is like being a kid in a candy shop’
Roifield: I was always meeting the same type of person and I wanted to break that cycle. It makes sense too, because London is such an anonymous city and it’s hard to meet someone unless it’s through a friend of a friend, which hadn’t worked out for me.
I was on Soulmates for about three weeks before I met Leandra, my wife. I posted that I would like to meet a woman in her 30s and, initially, I had a couple of date disasters. The first date I arranged was a lunch date and I soon realised what a bad idea that was. Lunch is not like grabbing a coffee; you’re locked in, even when there’s no spark. The other disaster was with a woman I met on the site who didn’t have a profile picture. Alarm bells should have started ringing, but she wrote funny messages so I decided to go for it. I asked her if she wanted to go for a coffee. She replied that I should come round to her house instead. When I arrived, the house looked shabby, there was no doorbell and it was pitch black inside. It turned out she was not in her 30s but her late lds planet 40s, and once we started chatting I realised it wasn’t going anywhere. I stayed for a coffee though because I felt sorry for her. (más…)