You can't help but sometimes be sceptical when people talk to you about dating sites. Do they actually work? Sure, you may meet people, but can you form long lasting relationships from them?
We thought we'd have a chat with someone who successfully found online after using an internet dating site. Jilly Hudson met with Eliza from the Dating Show in London to have a chat. Jilly says she's now with the man of her dreams. She had some very exciting news to share with us.
You can hear her chat with Eliza here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar2CmkIlWMc
Or, if you feel like reading it written down, you can carry on below.
J: We've decided we're to move in together!
E: That's amazing!
J: Yes. It's all, you know, selling the flat, finding a house and yes? Building our life together really.??
E: So, this is after how long?
J: We met in October last year. We were talking to each other for?around about a month before we met up and it's really gone from there. I just instantly knew that he was the one.
E: Where did you go for your first date?
J: Our first date was actually one of the coldest dates ever at Kew? Gardens (south west London, UK) and we just spent the whole time?walking and getting to know each other because until then, all our? Communication had been by email
E: Why did you choose a place like Kew Gardens? Often people go and have? A meal or they go for a drink, why did you choose to go to Kew Gardens?
J: I didn't choose it. He did. So, it was his choice about spending the?day there but they've got like a little cafe and stuff there, so we?could have some lunch but also it's quite mutual territory where we?could just like walk and chat and just get to know each other.
E: So it's sort of took the pressure off in the sense that you didn't? find yourself facing somebody that you couldn't talk to? You had?something that you could talk about as you walked around on your date?
J: Exactly.....look around at what was going on there.
E: I know that it wasn't always easy to find somebody when you were?online dating? It took time and you had to keep looking, and there were?times when it was quite disappointing? How was that period for you?
J: It was quite challenging because as somebody who is naturally quite? Shy, taking the knocks can actually be quite tough but you've got to? Actually be resilient and not take it too personally.
E: Now tell me, how did it actually feel when you knew that the chap?that you had met, when you got to Kew Gardens and you kinda knew that? This guy was the one? How did that feel that you had found him?
J: It was lovely. We had been talking to each other? For so long it was just finally meeting him was absolutely fantastic.? What was nice was that it just felt so natural and we just didn't stop? Talking all day.
This is from October's Dating Show podcast. To listen to the whole podcast, click here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KskpXp9k5k
To listen to the latest Dating Show, you can click here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSpDDFj7xjA