Dear dreaming715:

Lots of people who met online have relationships, and I am guessing those are not worse than when meeting offline. Before online dating the divorce rate was 50% if I have it right.

We are already on to a few things: the lack of assertiveness on your part is one, the need for you to take the driver seat from the beginning of a relationship, to assert yourself, to state your feelings, needs, wants.

Before, we went over you ask a guy questions, listening and understanding what is going on. If you look at previous threads you started you can find the parts where I came up with ideas and you agreed they were good ideas or suggestions.

The pattern, the lack of success in your dating is a result of multiple factors. I don’t know all of them and I am not sure about the last one you suggested in the last post. I do know about the factors you already agrees are valid. There is enough there for you to use in the future.

If you make it your aim to learn and function in ways that maximize your chances of success in dating and in any other area, you are very, very likely to succeed.

anita