Complements

In my continual, and increasingly desperate, search for my soul mate on Match.com – a search that can be both fun and soul destroying at the same time – along with messages I’ve received from various ladies, I’ve started to receive a different kind of response to my own messages.

Oddly enough, those messages openly offer a compliment on my well worded, amusing and interesting profile. But, rather unfortunately, that’s where the compliment ends as the ladies are usually responding with a short but sweet "thanks, but no thanks". I’ve also had a few unprompted messages from a Match.com lady or two – but alas they weren’t my cup of tea. I’m not being shallow here, but we all have to admit that there needs to be an initial spark from a profile and/or picture.

So, now armed with an apparently interesting profile, yet again, it looks like the old mug shots are letting me down. Trouble is, there’s only so much a bloke can do to his looks and perhaps I may just have to face up that I’m not as attractive as I thought (or hoped). Maybe, just maybe, I’ll just have to accept that I’m not dating material.