Online Dating – Uncovering The Saga Of Virtual Gambling

Tired of dealing with your two favorite enemies, a.k.a boredom and loneliness?
In need of some validation with a side of ego pumping?
I think online dating may be your perfect fit.
Welcome to the world in which quantity overrides quality.
Where the name of the game is called indifference.
A little white lie over here, a little hot and cold dance over there. Fight, flight, or freeze? Decisions, decisions! Pull me closer to later push me further.

Online dating is just like gambling in that our odds of winning the lottery of finding the human being of our choice are close to zero. Yet that sure doesn’t stop us from getting back in the game time and time again, in spite of having perhaps lost more than we’ve gained. Failure has never tasted so good. We move from one stranger to the next, milking our luck with no regrets. Swinging back on the meaningless sex carrousel, the consolation prize when you can’t get a shot at love.

We get drunk on the idea that the “love of our life” may only be a click away - forgetting that keeping love alive through years on end can’t be done by the snapping of fingers. Gambling our heart away doesn’t come free of risk, but isn’t the reward of love worth the pain? Romantic love is the most sought stock in town, yet sadly for the majority of the people who have acquired it, its value diminishes over time.

The online dating scene could certainly use a healthy dose of self introspection, my favourite thing in the world, you already know! Why not throw some radical honesty, wounds healing and attachment theory crash course 101 while at it!