@layaa: you're not the only one lol. I don't believe in romantic love either, mostly because I can honestly say I've never felt it...which is really funny considering what I write about.

So nut shell: dating = unnecessary and entirely avoidable additional stress.

I think the latest postings sum it up. Dating should be an enjoyable social activity, but sometimes it can be a chore one has to perform because of peer pressure or knowing one's other half isn't going to appear by staying at home. But I have known people who met because they kept seeing each other on their tram, and after commuting together for a long time, they took their growing friendship to the next level. Lots of variety in meeting people.

Probably the best way to do so is take part in your favourite sports, hobbies, dancing, volunteering etc and meet people with whom you have something in common already.

Best of luck with your search, Rachael! Some people are meant to be married, such as my mother and brother, and others are meant to be single, such as my other brother and me.

Thanks, GailP!

You could meet someone while staying at home, though. All you have to do is order pizza every day of the week, make lots of appointments with the cable guy, and call the police on yourself every once in a while. Then sit back and watch the hunks roll in! (Or the overweight, middle-aged bald guys with psoriasis.)

Don't get me wrong with my previous post. I believe in love, just not dating
Oh and by love, I don't mean pure, eternal love which I believe does not exist except in a few exceptions

Wowwwww... I so mispredicted the Amaranth users and their love for love!

At least whoop and rachael share my view, which is it's worthwhile to look

Goodness, I wonder if the next Amaranth product should be all about love falling apart. I did have this cool idea to write a game that starts with a failing marriage and follows the story of falling out of love. Heh, someone make it, I'm too lazy

-Fool

That would be such an awesome game. I'd play it if we get to kill the ex too. xD

@Mopiece

I never been to that kind of dating, I said that because mainly cases of that in TV, the majority of times always end up in rape and death. That's why I think it's dangerous.

It's comments like that which make me wonder why you're single Theone

Maybe it's for the best (and safety of the public).

-Fool

@D-Squall

That is not the case. You're allowing what you see to represent the majority. That is not the majority. You said it yourself that you've never done online dating, so how would you know?

@D-Squall: I'd have to agree with Mopiece. If that is the majority, well, the news probably won't touch that with a ten-feet pole in the fear of being dubbed "ordinary" XD I mean, who wants to hear about ordinary love affairs when you have, like, Clinton and Levinsky XD

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Lols, I wouldn't kill an ex in real life. Have to find an ex for that first and that's too much work

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but isn’t attraction supposed to be the first step to love? I mean, how can you be attracted to somebody and hate them? xD

@theone: lol. It’s supposed to be piece of cake for many people.

@Lovin - the murdering or the finding people you WANT to murder?

I'm attracted to a lot of people I hate This is the mentality of the male. Hah.

@lovinlife: attraction doesn't mean anything though.

For example, many people find models attractive though there's next to no chance they'd actually get together and all that. Many times people jump in head first into lust rather than any 'real' love.

Falling in love? More like falling in lust lol.

@thefool: Most of the AM games' canon is against the majority of people's liking anyway so a falling out of love with the canon couple would work out fine lol.

Online dating...Whether you're rooting for it or against it, it balances itself on that fine line of utter disaster or unexpected happiness.

We've heard of many stories of how online dating lead to disaster dates or worse. But there are also some who unexpectedly found happiness.

I know of an ex-colleague who found happiness through online dating. She was divorced with a daughter who was in primary (grade) school. In spite of her circumstance and not to mentioned language barrier, she was Chinese and he was Korean, all turned out well. She took the effort to learn the language and after several (I don't know exactly how many ) dates spent in each other's country, they finally got engaged to be married.

For "real life/person" dating,I've seen disastrous outcomes when the relationship ended. Boy Y and Girl X, splits. Mild cases, both moves on as if the relationship or the "acquaintance-ship" never happened, both walk past each other like how one walks past a stranger. More extreme ones - they hate each other guts and some even go as far as to tear down each other's things or reputation. This happened a lot during my uni days, since most people tend to date people from the same faculty (due to the "structure" of my uni, different faculties don't get to mix around with one another except for when there's a sport tournaments, charity/sale project going on)

After all that's been said about dating and love. If you asked me about experience on love and dating, I *coughs* only *coughs* have experience of by-stander -- 3rd person's perspective view of what happened between Girl X and Boy Y. I somehow always end up being sandwich between the drama, whether it was of my own will or not. ("People, leave me out of your love vendettas!" would be what I might say but no, I somehow "have to get myself mixed up with the gossip networks, and gossip pops up in front of me without warning ^^; ).

Anyway, I'm going out of topic...

In my own sincere opinion, Love itself is no less (or even more - ?)dangerous than any form of dating.

Why?

Love (itself) is a battlefield ("Love is a Battlefield", Jordan Sparks). We take our chances on people, make plans and strategies on how to attract capture and imprison our love interest. Sometimes we score, sometimes it's just a big screw-up that'll fill up yet another spot in the hall of shame.

That's how "The Game of Love" (Michelle Branch) is like. Take a chance and love like you never been love before, but be warned that you might have to cry your heart out.

A word of advice, even when you are on cloud nine during the dating/honeymoon period. Never neglect your friends, they are the one who would cheer you on when times are great and in times of despair, they'll scoop you up from floor and piece you back.

@thefool: definitely not the latter. :p as for mentality of men, explains a lot lol.

@ktc: now, now, lust and love do have a link :p. Normal fans lust all the time over their role models, actors/actresses, etc. and whadayya know, Sandra bullock ended marrying a blue collar worker after all.

@layaa: not me. But that doesn’t mean I believe in changing your mate every now and then along with your prepaid mobile cards either.

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Agree with you 100%. If pure love exists with pure soul mates, then why don't people fall in love before hormones?

@theone: cuz you need hormones to fall in love.