I have been on eHarmony on and off for over five years now. Yes, I am still single, but at least I have some great stories about the pathetically absurd dates I've been on with eHarmony matches.

I am truly baffled by the eHarmony matching process. I have no idea what their criteria is for a "compatable" match, but they are very good at tricking you into believing there is a man on their site who could be your "soulmate" so you better not blow it by letting your membership lapse!! About half of my matches live across the country even though I live in a very metropolitan area. Really eHarmony? There isn't one guy out of the 3 million people living in LA that you consider a compatable match for me?

What I also find disturbing is the number of matches who seem to be empty fillers. eHarmony tells me I have all these matches, but the matches never even look at my profile, let alone try and contact me. I don't think there is an actual person on the other end of these matches. A very good male friend of mine found out his profile was "active" four years after he left eHarmony. I believe they are using his profile as one of the empty fillers.

As for my dates, let's see -- there was the guy who started talking about sex and sexual positions within 5 minutes of our one and only date. Oh, and the guy who couldn't seem to form a complete sentence the entire evening (I've actually had a few of those). My personal favorite is the guy who copied one of my profile pictures, photo-shopped it to make me appear topless, then reposted the picture on Facebook -- before our first date!!

I have to say though that the worst experience was the guy I did date for almost two years who turned out to be a complete con artist. He professed his love for me and declarations of being together for the rest of our lives, then finessed me out of my life savings. I'm looking at bankruptcy next month. I informed eHarmony and they promised to remove him from the site, but guess what?? They matched me with him a second time this past week!!!

Bottom line -- if you're looking for something REAL and LASTING just keep moving past eHarmony.