How the Bumble dating website changed my life for the better.

Are dating websites a waste of time?

How many times have you heard people complaining about these websites, saying they are losing their time?

I was one of them when I split from the father of my daughter in 2013 after discovering he was cheating on me when he was going back to Italy with the excuse to work and I was in London with my daughter.

I shared my life with the father of my daughter for 16 years, but in 2013, it was the end of it. When it happened, I did not despair because I was living in London and enjoying my life in the capital, one of the best cities to be single. At that point. I decided to join dating websites to accelerate the meeting with the man of my dreams.

After a little research, I decided to join Match.com, and quite soon I started to have chats online and some dates in real life.

But the monthly payment was too high for me, so I decided to join Plenty of Fish, and immediately I was very surprised to see that the same people on the expensive match.com were on the free version of PlentyOffish.com.

I cancelled my profile on Match, and for a few years, I used Plenty of Fish even if I did not find anyone interesting for a serious relationship. Then I closed my profile when I started a relationship with someone I met outside the dating websites, but after three years, I reopened a new profile on Plenty of Fish when the relationship ended due to his emotional abuse.

Unfortunately, this website was not sending me the right man again while I was living in Bristol. Every time I had a date, something was happening, and I decided straight away to stop any further meetings with the guy.

“I am still young, sexy, and believe in love," I was saying to myself, and one day you will meet the right one.

In all these years, I never joined Tinder for the horror stories I was reading on social media.

I considered myself lucky until that moment because even if I had met strange people, they never assaulted me or, even worse, killed me and hid my body in a forgotten suitcase at the airport.

But I was frustrated because, at a certain point on Plentyoffish, I could find only men completely different from me. Even worse, most of them were lying about their age and profession, and their pictures were taken ten years earlier.

I had enough of those fat, ugly men wearing shorts, socks, and sandals taking a picture of themselves in front of a mirror, ready to conquer me with the following message: “Hi sexy, how is it going tonight?”

Therefore, after a little research, I decided to close my profile on Plenty of Fish and start a new search on Bumble.com.

I did not want to pay any money as I did in the past, so I checked if there was a free version, and fortunately, it was possible to open a free profile, even if it was a bit limited. For instance, if you open a free profile, you can contact men only in the local area where you live.

Bumble wants to know your location, so it is impossible to chat with someone living in New York if you are in London. I think this is good because it helps keep away scammers who declare their fake love to lonely pensioners to steal all their money.

Therefore, I uploaded on Bumble.com my best pictures, trying to be beautiful but funny. I did not upload any pictures of me in lingerie or a bikini because I wanted to appear like a real and honest woman looking for the right one.

In the description of my profile, I tried to be as honest as I could, saying I was not looking at that moment for casual dates and I was not interested in pluriamorose people.

I wrote that I was attracted by intelligence but not interested in men who think only of their muscles or football matches.

I love culture, books, intelligent conversations, travelling, discovering new cultures, and eating.

I was honest and not scared to say the truth.

In the end, I added that I love animals, particularly cats, but can not live with someone who loves snakes or tarantulas.

Once my profile was written, I felt like an expert fisherman, ready at that point to find the right fish.

And quite soon, my actual husband appears like a beautiful dolphin.

What I like about Bumble.com is that women are the first ones to contact men.

Firstly, they can choose accurately, and secondly, they are not harassed by stupid men with their ”hi-sexy “or pictures of their dead willy!

After a couple of weeks of chatting, I was brave enough to ask my actual husband if he was ready to meet me in the real world in Newcastle upon Tyne.

He accepted, and from the first meeting, we never stopped.

This happened in December 2021, just a week after I arrived in Newcastle.

In May 2024, we got married.

We advised Bumble.com in the past about our engagement, and they sent us a few gadgets.

It was very nice of them.

After our honeymoon, we will send to Bumble our pictures taken during our wedding and our travel.

In the end, these dating websites are not bad if you believe in them, are patient, and are honest and confident enough to look for the right one. Bumble was the best choice for me, and I will never regret this.

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