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Reviewed By: Bamboozled

Location: Florida

Sex: Female

Rating: *****

Date: June 05, 2007

I'd rather not give it a rating AT ALL! After cringing at the amount of money I was spending, as I hit "enter," the nausea finally went away. I then decided, "What's $60 if I meet the love of my life? You can't put a price on love!" Boy was I wrong! Not only can you put a price on it, but eHarmony went a step further with an irresistable advertisement for our $60! Watching the happiness-induced commercials, I'd decided to give eHarmony a try. I mean, certainly, I'm marketable, right? Attractive, 30 year old with Masters degree, never married, no kids or mental problems, with a great job and happy, well-rounded disposition on life. Sounded like a nice start. Hmmm... I have 2 main complaints. 1) For $60, I think we all deserve some sort of criminal check before people are accepted and matched! 2) Where are the important questions...like how "long ago was your divorce?" and "how long after the divorce did you join?" I hit it off with my first match...that is until I realized he was literally trying to BE an eHarmony commercial. No lie! He was even stealing lines from them! He was one of those people who'd been married (after a 3 day courtship) for 10-11 years (ages 20-31, to be exact), never really experienced life and didn't know how to be alone. And how could he? He'd always been a husband. So, here we were, 4 months after his divorce (to my later surprise). To my even BIGGER surprise, he'd joined eHarmony only 3 weeks after his divorce. He was very obviously telling me what he thought I wanted to hear and what he thought he needed to say in order to convince me to marry him-- QUICKLY. He was startled by the fact that I wasn't "in love," too, after date 4. And even more startled when I didn't fall for the, "Don't be afraid of what's happening between us. I see it in your eyes and I hear it in your voice" soap opera line. (I literally looked around for Ashton Kutcher to crawl from under my kitchen sink. Surely, my best friend was having me punked!) On the flipside of the insecure men looking for completion, there remains the other half who are just looking for fun. They close the match without even talking to you with lame excuses like, "Pursuing another relationship" (okay, so put your matching on hold); "I don't feel the chemistry is there" (how do you know? You haven't even talked to me!); and "other" or "I'd rather not say" (well, screw you too!) This wonderful money making business called eHarmony IS NOT the alternative to other dating sites. It's the same as other sites with better (and I dare say, clever) advertising. What good are 29 dimensions if they don't hit the important characteristics (are you married, how long ago was your divorce?). Or if people simply lie and give "pleasing answers" throughout the questionnaire? To the (maybe) 10% of people who have success on eHarmony (have you noticed that there are never new couples on the commercial?)--congrats! To the rest of us, we need to pink slip this online dating option and delve into face-to-face mingling again--for FREE!



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