Childfree Chatter

Hi all,

As our community is still small and not overly active, I thought instead of trying to have a weekly or monthly chatter thread up as a sticky, we could try a perpetual one and see what happens.

So anything you feel doesn't warrant a post of its own, just put it here.

Cheers and take care!

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UnequalExchange@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 20d (2 replies)

Does anyone have advice for a childfree person who wants to date but disdains online dating? Or will this be an impossibility because we are so rare??

( Sidenote Ive tried approaching in real life for the last 9 years and I get rejected like Im breathing air.I havent mentioned Im childfree to anybody but yall so...)

CoryCoolguy@lemmy.myserv.one · 2 pts · 3d (1 reply)

My advice is hold your nose and do the online dating thing. You can try other means of meeting people in addition but I don't think it's wise to throw out dating apps just because everyone hates them. Is it (nearly) impossible to meet potential partners otherwise? That largely depends on your location.

I met my now wife on Hinge two years ago. This isn't an endorsement of Hinge. In fact, Hinge kinda blows. But anecdotally it worked for me.

UnequalExchange@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3d

Honestly I feel that since so few people want to date me, its probably best for a person like me to leave ALL avenues open necause a person with few options has to try many more things than the averahe person in oder to get what or who they eventually want right? I dont think Ill rely heavily on onlime datimg, and by this I mean Ill only check my onlime dating profiles omce a month or so, and then Ill rely on IRL cold and hot apprpaching and hobby triangulation since my best experiences have come from IRL approaching . Also ot kinda boosts my confidence a little.

Oddly but I actually met the first persom I would ever date whenthey liked onee of my photos that I posted on my profile and I messaged tem back. They were also childfree and non-binary (So I guess I did technically tell somelne else Im childfree lol) but then they ghosted me a couole weeks later afterr our first dste. They said they. enjoyed thr datr and theu kept on saying they enjoyed the date and talking to me....but then they ghosted me.... I told them that 'if I did something erong please let me know and Im sorry but I wish you the best.'...and....that was the end of that forever...