Step 3: Senior dating services should offer you what you need in a fellow senior mate.
Ask yourself what you are looking for in a mate before choosing your senior dating services agency. Are you looking for:
- Friendship (sharing social activities)
- A chatting partner (no eventual meeting)
- Romance
- Wedding
- Sexual relationship
- All of those...
Some senior dating services focus more on romance, others on friendship. When you browse the pool of members for the first time, the good sites will let you define your search by one or more than one of these categories. This allows you again to choose the right site for you.
A senior dating services agency does not take care of it all.
Now let us give you some advices on how to get what you are looking for on a senior dating services agency. You probably know what you are looking for in a mate before you even register on a senior dating agency. So you know what you are looking for before you start browsing through the pool of members, exchanging emails and phone calls with them. We would like to inform you and warn you about some experiences of former and current users of the senior dating services we have heard about. This also applies to any sort of dating sites, not only those focus on senior dating services.
Keep in mind that almost all these senior dating services ask you at some point to specify what kind of relationship you are expecting out of the agency. It can be romance/intimacy relationships, strictly friendship or both (the wording differs from one senior dating site to the other). Although it could be tempting for you to go straight for romance, we suggest that you be careful at the beginning. And by that we mean that, even tough you are looking for a long term romance or relationship, you may want to start by looking for a casual/friendly relationship wit the person. It would be wise to browse pool of members who are looking for friendship before you browse those who wish more for romance or even sexual relationships.
From past experiences, members who were honestly looking for romance or a simple date ended up meeting with members of a senior dating services agency wanting to have casual sexual relationships right from the start. They were showing up in the "romance" category because, on most of these sites, there are no other categories for them to fit him. You need to make it clear with members you intent to meet where your limits are. Others, on the contrary, looking for friendships ended up living romance and long term relationship with the mate they found. So if you still want a describe yourself on your account as looking for romance, just be more careful and make sure from the start that you both are fully aware of other's intentions.
Senior dating services should provide many types of relationship categories.
Some senior dating serices websites will offer much more precise category. Some offers up to 12 different categories of types of relationships you may wish for. They sometime let you group more than one category to make it clearer for others. To make them understand what your limits are. Remember that you can always precise your intentions in different ways throughout the sites. You can use you description space. You can detail your feelings and intentions through emails and over the phone with other members. You can even do that online chatting. The difference between all these ways of communication and the main category you choose is the pool of member you will be browsing. You can only specify your search by a certain number of criteria (location, type of dating, age, etc). This is why it is so important. It will of course never replace a good conversation!