Having read a number of reviews about eharmony.com I noticed that many of the people didn't give eharmony very much time before they cancelled. Well I bought into their "give eharmony 12 months" pitch and here is my experience.

First the stats. In 12 months I actually got to the point of dating two women. The first of which turned out to be so much my opposite that you couldn't have picked two people that were so far apart mentally. So even though we gave it a try, ultimately our complete opposite way of looking at things dooms us. The second was actually a pretty good match mentally and interest wise, but physically it was kind of like, well, Lyle Lovett and Julia Roberts, and yes, I was the Lyle character. So after a couple of months, well, you get the picture (lonely tears in the rice crispies).

Overall it was a bad experience. I don't recall how many matches I was sent (not a lot, but not a little), but the majority had no photo, which was an immediate closure. Actually in the beginning I use to ask the person to post a photo, but that was kind of cruel if it turned out you were not attracted to the person because it would be quite obvious that you rejected them soley on their appearance. Most would never even respond anyway.

Now, of all the matches that I did receive, like I said, had no photo, the ones that did have photos usually were so far away as to make a relationship unfeasible. Many of the rest were simple bad matches. And like I said, I ended up seeing two, IN 12 MONTHS. After my membership expired I started to understand why so many "matches" that I had responded to went unanswered. After my membership had expired eharmony was still senting me matches and some of these women were trying to solicit a correspondence with me, of which I could not respond because I wasn't paying. I realized that this was part of their ploy to exploit our lonely hearts into spending $50 more for one more month in the hope that this one was the one. I found this to be deplorable. Not to metion the person trying to meet you thinking that you are simply rejecting them when in reality you are not able to respond. I would not recommend eharmony.com. The price is high and the service is horrid. The whole experience brought my self-worth to an all time low, something I am still recovering from. Lets make a club, "eharmonys anonymous", a 12 step program. :)