With the large assortment of single men and women online, one would think after posting a great profile, you’d be dating up a storm. Right?
Well, not always.
We know men are visual and like to scan for fresh faces and pursue the newest members when they’re searching for love online or even just looking for a date.
However, dating is a two-way street. Men may be expected to make the first move, but if they keep reaching out and hear nothing back, they tend to pull back.
My message to women is:
Be proactive with your love life – online and offline
What women need to realize is if they’re being passive while dating online, they’re basically sitting and waiting for someone to find them.
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When one of my female clients posted her new profile we worked on, her biggest frustration was it was taking FOREVER to meet a normal person online.
She thought since she “favorited” and “liked” their profiles while searching, they would immediately write to her. Unfortunately it isn’t always this way.
We can’t control when men will log on or if they’ll even take the time to view winks, favorites and flirts. Often they’ll just read their emails.
Since she met two men in the first week of posting her profile, I think she was getting good results. I’d rather see someone talk to two quality men with similar interests who they could be compatible with than the opposite.
One of the men who wrote to her lived about two hours away, but when his emails got too intense, she backed off. They hadn’t even met or Skyped, and he had already told her he didn’t want to pursue anyone else.
She felt he was emotionally attached without even knowing her and it was too much too fast. She told him she wasn’t ready to make that commitment yet and he disappeared.
She was a bit relieved and was smart to follow her intuition and not pursue this man.
This is the normal dating process
When she went on a date with the second man she met online, she thought he was nice and they had a great time. Still, he didn’t call her again. That’s actually pretty common.
Remember, you’re on a dating site, so you’ll likely be getting to know multiple people at once. The more dates you go on, the more confident you become and the clearer your must-haves will be.
So is she doing something wrong by waiting? Is the process not moving fast enough for her? Should she be emailing men instead of just liking and favoriting them?
The problem is she wants a guy to pursue her and she assumes they aren’t interested if they don’t respond to the passive likes and favorites.
What’s the solution?
If you want a man to pursue you, you need to give him a better cue. That means take the time to read his profile and send a short, flirty email to say hello.
Pick something in his profile that genuinely caught your attention, ask about it, and then encourage him to check out your profile too.
When you take the initiative, you’re opening a digital conversation that could lead to a phone call and, hopefully, a chance to meet in real life.
This doesn’t mean a woman has to be the aggressor and won’t have her man begging to see her again.
Chances are the men will be happy to see your email in their inbox and your date card will start to fill up.
