As a millennial from Millennials and older I'd like to know,

Has online dating worked for you? Like out of all my ex's most of them have been in real life but they were beyond crappy like scrub crappy if you get my drift! So like believe it or not someone younger (27) came along and he's doing it for me big time! He ain't no scrub, gives older vibes which is nice, and we're on the same wavelength big time! He don't live too far, we literally met yesterday, but now he's kind of being distant but like I know he's at church I think but whatever. I want to know about other older people's experience with online dating. Thanks for your time and I really hope this works out!

-K bye!

it's tough but doable. last one came from an automated phone line in 2003, lasted 20 years. amicable split. on year 3 with another from POF. keep trying til you get it..

It's a waste of time! .. I don't do it anymore

Boomer here answering. I met my late wife off a telephone dating service where you called in and listened to ads left by women and then you left your message in a prospective person's inbox with your contact info back in '95. We were together from the day we met up til her passing in Mar 2009 and I raised both of her very young children and the son we had together during those years. In Oct 2011 I met online my present wife on a local free Ohio dating site. She had left a funny but kinda smartass response to my ad that really peaked my interest so I answered her back and we talked for about a month both on the phone and on Yahoo messenger prior to meeting, in Nov we met and ended up spending the weekend together. During that weekend we not only had a lot of fun together but at night we sat on her front porch swing for many hours as the kids slept and had some very serious life talks where we both laid all our cards out on the table and held nothing back during our discussions, things just really flowed free and naturally. When the weekend came to a close and it came time for me to leave, on the 2 hour drive home I made the decision that I wanted this gal as my wife. I came back the following weekend, proposed to her, she accepted and that following month in Dec we went to the JoP and got married, and here in Dec we will be celebrating our 15th anniversary. Never once regretted my decision and a couple of years later I legally adopted both of her young children. I am very fortunate to have had the good fortune to have 2 wonderful wives bless my life as most are lucky to even find one so I feel especially blessed. 

Met my boyfriend on Omegle, the random video chat site where we matched and found each other every night under the same tags. I asked for his Skype after a while and found out we were in the same state. He was only a couple of years younger, very mature, more than I was. So, I can say you have just as much of a chance online as in person. It helped that we could see each other's faces and hear each other as well.

I am a younger Millennial (Zillennial) and it was extremely rough at first. My first serious online relationship got me to move two states away and it was absolutely horrible. I wont go into too much detail, this isn't really a place to trauma dump, but it was an extreme abuse situation. I did find someone else online that happened to live in the same area as me by some crazy coincidence. We remained friends for like two years and we eventually decided to give each other a chance. I met her for the first time at the local zoo where we had out first date back in 2019. It's been seven years, and she is now my wife. 

Born in '97 here, I met my wife online. We had an extremely long distance online relationship, and it can be really difficult, but if you both are the kind of people to never give up and also have similar expectations it can workout. Communication is important, but also understanding. Try to avoid making assumptions, as it's very easy to think someone is behaving a certain way out of wrongful intent when in reality they may just be ignorant or misreading what is happening. Beyond all else, choosing love, even when the feeling isn't present, is how relationships stay afloat. That, and having life-goals that can coexist together is really helpful in the long run.

Aside from a brief stint of experimentation during college & a neighbor once, everyone I've ever dated has been from the internet. No dating sites, just meeting people I clicked with on games or forums or whatever & being like "hey we have a lot in common & I think you look nice so, about that". Mixed bag of relationships, lived with a few, never been married, but I feel like the internet gives time to not be so much about appearances. People are REAL weird in real life, like, please don't touch me we just met.