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Or if you fancy reading what she has to say, you can read it below. It was quite challenging because as somebody who’s naturally quite shy, taking the knocks while looking for love can actually be quite tough. But, you've got to be resilient and try not to take it too personally.
If you're going to do internet dating, you’ve got to bear in mind that it's very much like shopping. People are shopping for partners. There are people looking for different things and you've got to accept that some people that you meet aren't going to be interested in you and some people are going to have different motives. As long as you've always got that in your head and just not build it up into too much, then it's fine. Online dating is a great way to meet people.
However, in terms of quantity of people that you wouldn't necessarily meet in your day-to-day life, particularly if you have a job that's quite routine and you have a limited circle of people that you deal with on a day-to-day basis, it's a good way to introduce new people into your life.
But in doing that, it does involve getting to know strangers and they're going to have different values from you. They're not always going to be totally straightforward, so you've got to be aware of that and have strategies in place to make sure that you sort people out into who are people that you actually want to get to know more.
You could probably get hurt quite easily otherwise. If you want to listen to the full Dating Show podcast for tips on finding love online, you can listen to it here.
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