I met Professional men who were not on a dating site. Some I 'm still in contact with. Professional men oftentimes cannot get along with Professional women because they are equal to them. I heard that from a Professional man friend.

They have just as many Relationship problems as uneducated people.

I have dated on Paid date Sites, which now are more expensive than 6 years ago.

I had nice dates in person also two marriage proposals. I am seeking but not
Desperate.

Many people are on Free sites now, including Professional. People.

Paid dating sites are a rip off. Disposable income is not an indication of personality, integrity or intelligence.

Some may be a rip off but not All.

I do agree it's not an indication. of personality-etc
never said it was !

That's a matter of opinion.

That's odd. I don't think I've ever had anyone tell me I'm too old, too tall or other unpleasantries why they don't want a relationship with me.
Maybe you wouldn't have such things anymore now since your vibration has changed so much?
In any case, don't give up hope! And online can work for sure. A friend of mine found the love of her life on a dating site within a very short time, less than a month I think. They're happily married, bought a house etc.
My girl met her man on Tinder, real fast as well. Now living together, both totally happy.
I must say I like Tinder. Lot of great guys on there. Bummer is, doing stuff on my phone is a problem for me with my neck injury...
I do occasionally check and swipe though, haha.

That's correct, that's because most women -esp those women- are too much in their masculine energy. They have to be in order to make it in the professional world, which is highly masculine. (competing, results, successes and so on.)
This wouldn't be a problem in love provided they'd step into their feminine energy with their man so you don't have two masculine energies in the connection.
Apart from that not working, a masculine man cannot fall for a masculine woman. He wants a woman by his side, not a man in a woman's body.

Problem is that hardly any woman knows what it's like to be and feel feminine, let alone that they're NOT in their feminine energy. Most think it's dressing up in sexy stuff, or wearing feminine looking outfits. Unfortunately that doesn't work, and has nothing to do with being feminine. Dressing up in a sexy way is actually masculine (!!!) not feminine, as it's about showing off, competing, and whatnot.

I give courses on this stuff, isn't always easy to get professional / emotionally mature women to enroll as they simply don't seem to understand they aren't feminine or feel like they're doing great, so why bother?

So yes, I can understand the problem of professional men.

I beg to differ. It is mostly people with higher levels of education and above average jobs that make a good income. Their education, interests in general, work and so on do say something about their personality and intelligence.
Sure there are exceptions to the rule, but that's a given.
Doesn't mean people with less disposable income have unpleasant personalities, but if you're looking for certain qualities like I am, you will sooner find them in people with higher education, who also have a better job because of that and so on.
Overall, there's a mentality difference in people with higher education and people with low education.

It was mostly in the Keys where I got the unpleasant comments from... Looking back I should consider the source, haha... The Keys are full of men who like to hang out if bars and be party animals, I wasn't interested in hanging out in bars or casual flings. They have a saying down there called, "The Keys Disease"... basically it's people who go down there, work for a bit, then take an extended vacation, then work for a bit, then take another extended vacation... haha, not my thing, so it's just as well!

In the last year I've been moving around with seasonal work at resort type places, without a vehicle, so it was difficult to meet anyone local. The two from Mingle did say nice things, just that I lived too far and they didn't want a long distant relationship... understandable! It was frustrating though because online was all I had given the where I was located.

Now I am in a work setting that has locals coming in every day, they aren't on vacation... I'm getting a little attention, casual flirtation and second looks *blushing*. It's refreshing and is helping to spark that fire in me again, so with that and my vibration changing, maybe it will change things a bit online? I do believe how we think makes a huge difference and if you think you won't find anyone, you won't! Until a couple months or so ago, I had pretty much given up.

Yet here you are a long standing member of a free dating/social network site?

Higher education doesn't mean higher intelligence. A high powered job doesn't mean you're a good person. Often those who fit into those categories have over inflated egos. When in actual fact most of what theyve achieved can be attributed to mere luck.

Haha, I'm not here for the dating site option, I'm not looking for a partner here. I'm here cos I got to know the people and I like to communicate in English, and with people from another country/culture.
I even stayed here when I was in a relationship. I really come here for the forums, and the forums only. There's more people on here who are in a relationship, seeing someone and so on.
Being a long term member on Mingle is entirely different from another dating site.
When I was in a relationship I DID remove myself from those, not from Mingle though.
Also, when I first got here, I wasn't ready for a new relationship, I'd only just gotten out of an abusive one about half a year prior.
The main reason for me becoming a member was to keep my English up to speed as after I'd left my British partner, and not being an English teach anymore, it was going down the drain.
Sorry to debunk your rant.

High education does tend to come with higher intelligence. I already explained this thoroughly in my previous post.

My rant?

it's hard to tell who real it's on a phone that's why

Hahaha, I know! doesn't make it any easier. We probably have to work that out ourselves and if you take into account how long it took that computer...

I think this fits as good here as anywhere:

I've got to say you women have it tough. Somehow I ended up on the other side of this site last night, I was looking at men's profiles here.
Wow, what a bunch of dirtballs and obviously fake profiles! Lots of guys lying about their age, some by 30 years I'm sure and one guy who said he was my age but his pic was Sean Connery at about my age! I'm thinking I'm just not with it after viewing these guys. I guess I need some sort of stupid scraggly chin whiskers and a hat. 90% seemed to have that look, some just looked well.... my mother would have said "he looks like he needs a good scrubbing"! Others where just openly vulgar. I'm not an egomaniac but after spending a hour looking at these guys I now know why I get the amount of mail here that I do (I'm not counting the multitudes of 23 y/o scammer chicks btw).

Niche group dating..:

ie normal people..normal size, normal sanitation levels etc..whatevs

but whats normal??..

not life..

I have to disagree with that statement. I worked for 47 years in many different companies. Often the persons with the most education could not spell correctly, dictate letters correctly, and had egotistical manners. As far as common sense, the so-called "less educated" had great ideas and presented themselves more professionally. The higher intelligence part came in if they were botanical researchers for example, but then they were only more intelligent in their chosen field and could not carry a regular conversation. I've written commercials for radio, been a secretary at a printing company and insurance company, a physical therapist aid at Veterans Hospital, and a variety of other things, as well as owning a furniture restoration business, and finally retired from Corrections (prison) where the majority of inmates had more intelligence than the guards.

NORMAL is just a setting on a washing machine. If I quoted who told me that you all wouldn't believe me anyway*, and he died 2 yrs ago in May so.....
But yeah that's all normal is and if I've lowered some ones stress level just a little with that I'm happy.

* one person here would.