All of ya'll's responses are too cute and very friendly, thank you ..

Too cute. You have a warm, fun love-in personality.

(I am a woman of many requirements, and one of them is chocolate lol).

Naaaa ... not many requirements, very low maintenance here! Live life simple

But I looooove chocolate!

...... off to work! .... can't even finish reading all the replies in here at this time! catch up later! lol .... ya'll are the sweetest.... the posts I did get a chance to scan ....

You are too cute! Thanks for the compliment on my post! You have a fun personality; love your post!

Anyone out there wanting to spend time, get together, visit with eachother, and do things we like to do together, who has time to spend? And who would like to date someone, hoping that it would turn into something long-term and meaningful?

Someone who would like that kind of companionship as well? Quality time.

A caring and responsible man?

A great match for me would be age range 48 to 56, gainfully employed like me - a non-smoker, social occasional drinking ok with me, but would not be interested in someone who drinks like a fish lol - definitely single and UN-attached, and local, Houston, Texas only.

This is mine: Take off for the beach at night for a few hours. Being by the ocean takes me away from everything. So peaceful.

Take off about 4 or 5 in the afternoon, to get a good parking place and get settled on the seashore - packing a small cooler full of snacks, sandwiches, and drinks - blanket and pillows.

love the sound of the ocean.

Lots of people even bring their little BBQ grills and tables and chairs and set up right on the seashore at night against the seawall, next to the seawall .... and others bring their blankets and pillows and are sitting right on the seashore. This is at night.

and there's a nice breeze off the ocean at night, keeping you nice and cool. It's also cooler in the evening, so you're not hot and uncomfortable.

Head back home around 11:00 or midnight.

.... refreshing

for your own safety for your computer also, I would not open attachments of any kind, photos or otherwise, and I would not click on any links - which are sent in your email via any online dating personals website. You never know if they could have or lead to viruses within them. There is no need open such things within email, or click on any links anyone sends or even posts in open forum community.

People can include pictures of themselves within their profiles.

For this reason also, I would not, nor do I see a need to, accept invitations to exchange personal email addresses, in order to exchange photos. Especially without getting to know a bit more about eachother, via email using this site. And no need to exchange personal information such as phone numbers or personal email addresses, unless you know someone a bit better first also.

I believe as soon as you delete the message in your inbox, it will all go away. Also, do report to system operator, as that is quite disrespectful.

Partly agreed. I'm not one to play online for long and don't have much time to play online. I'm all for finding out a little bit about eachother through email via a personals site first, to see if you even want to meet and go forward from there. But I'm also not into a long drawn out email process, and would rather then get to real life lol in person dealing. Not into people hiding behind computers haha. After a few message back and forth, seeing if some basic things match up for starters, if someone doesn't want to initiatively move it to the phone - NEXT! lol.

basically age range, gainful employment such as myself, smoking and drinking habits, definitely single and un-attached, and locality for starters has to match up. Then I'm good If those basic things match up for me pretty well, then I don't see any reason not to move forward. Otherwise there's just kind of waisting time lol. Theres so much more after that to explore and enjoy exploring voice to voice and person to person. Then it's nice to move it to the phone. And I don't have much time to chat on the telephone either. I stay pretty busy with full time job, music ministry, taking care of my place to live, lol If two people really are interested then in getting to know eachother and forming and nurturing a good relationship and seeing where it goes - and they're interested in that in eachother from there - then they can show eachother by planning time together, getting out enjoying doing things together, getting to know eachother at the same time through chatting and talking and laughing in person. For me, that's best.

I would definitely subscribe yourself to a background checking service

ICK !! lol ... not my type of guy lol

any lady who has or puts the time to message with you back and forth all night long doesn't have a life and might be deperate lol.

No burger joints for me ! lol

lol ! lengthy ...... alot of people like dealing in person and meeting maybe after a bit of also taking it to the phone and chatting for a bit too.

Darlin' ... not many people are going to wait "a month" to meet someone lol. I think you're stretchin' it a bit.

And you can chat chat chat all day long, online, over the phone, whatever. You never really know whether or not you have chemistry with someone, unless you're also dealing with them in person.

Ya know? Bibically God only honors divorce for two reasons. (1) Abandonment. (2) Adultery.

(Abuse is something else).

Amen to that!

Good post; good points. BUT ALSO .. some cheat only because they can't just be satisfied with having only one person, and also because for the thrill of it, because to see if they can get away with it. the thrill of sneaking and getting aways with it. I know that may be immature, but it happens. Still... the way when you're not getting satisfied with whatever it is in a relationship, is to try to work it out in the relationship. Stepping out of the relationship only makes things worse, and the relationship will then surely break down.

LOVE THE DRUM SET JUSTFUN ! :)

Agreed. Once someone cheats on you, it's different anyway. It will never be the same. And if they cheated on you, they will never feel the same, or as much for you as they did before they cheated. Otherwise, why would they cheat? lol. You would never feel the same either. And definitely trust would be lost. And if you don't have trust, you don't have much of nothing. It's really kind of over when someone cheats.

hmmmm ... do you mean you would put up with someone cheating on you, if they were rich? lol

LOL well said