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Related: About this forumWhy these Christian, Muslim and Jewish women despair at religious dating sites
Helen Coffey wants to meet a fellow Christian to share her life with, so signs up to a religious dating site. She, like other young religious women, finds the experience isn't quite what she hoped for.
By Helen Coffey
11:00AM BST 24 Jun 2014
Do you mind if I pray real quick?
This is the question posed by the man opposite me, the man with whom I am on a date. A first date, I might add. In a trendy, Soho cafe, surrounded by people. Lots of people. With ears.
Pray? Here? Really? I look around nervously. Before I've had a chance to utter the words: Don't, please, just
don't, he has already placed a firm hand on my arm, bowed his head and proceeded to launch into saying grace, audibly enough that several other tables in the joint have turned to stare in bemusement.
I want to die. I want the ground to swallow me up. It is as cringeworthy to me as an episode of Fawlty Towers, with Basil running around beating Manuel senseless with a frying pan.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/10920241/Why-these-Christian-Muslim-and-Jewish-women-despair-at-religious-dating-sites.html
Goblinmonger
(22,340 posts)that one goes on a Christian dating site and finds someone that is seriously Christian. That's a classic example of irony, right there.
rug
(82,333 posts)But she had good reasons, demographic among them, to sign up. I'm glad she shared her experience.
Dorian Gray
(13,463 posts)I've had friends who have used a Catholic dating site and JDate. Varying levels of success. But, match.com seems to have been the most popular amongst my friends and family who have successfully met a partner online.
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)Whoever stole my Credit Card info used it to open accounts on Christian Mingle and Catholic Match.
So uh. Yeah.
rug
(82,333 posts)AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)Genius plan there.
cbayer
(146,218 posts)I think the "generic" sites are better than the ones that really limit themselves to a certain category. You can always indicate that your jewish religion is important to you or that you are an atheist or whatever.
But if your religious identity is a critical part of your identity and it's going to be a show stopper in terms of who you date, then I guess you are going to run into these kinds of problems where some people on there are even more highly identified than you are.