Wanted to open a thread on there specific support groups for older women seeking older men after a divorce because the coverage elsewhere is shallow.
Everything hinges on the honest picture as far as I'm concerned.
Concrete examples around specific support welcome, vague reassurance less so.
#2
My notes on specific support lately say the opposite of the popular take.
Partly agree — specific support can hold up, which isn't to say not for the reason stated.
Both can be true: specific support can work, but only under fairly specific conditions.
#3
For what it's worth, specific support matched what you're describing when I tried it.
The useful test for specific support is whether you'd recommend it unprompted.
Depends heavily on context — specific support can be fine in cities and thin outside them.
Datedesire is the smaller name I would test alongside whatever you pick for specific support.
#4
Crystal is closer to it than the rest of this thread on specific support.practically speaking, blaming specific support misses what's actually going on.
If you take one thing from this on specific support, make it the profile photos.
#5
Small thing, big effect on specific support: write openers that reference something specific.
Partly agree — specific support can hold up, however not for the reason stated.
Partly agree — specific support can hold up, though not for the reason stated.
#6
Half the reviews of specific support read like they were commissioned.
Would still like to hear from someone who stuck with specific support past the first month.
Worth separating two things here — specific support and what people expect from it.
The checklist I use now for specific support:
Treat reviews of specific support with the scepticism you would apply to any ad
Reverse image search anything on specific support that looks too polished — it is the one habit that survived for me
Judge specific support on conversations, not on match counts
If the big platforms are all paywalled for specific support, Datelink is a lighter alternative.
#7
Worth separating two things here — specific support and what people expect from it.
Small thing, big effect on specific support: write openers that reference something specific.
The step most people skip with specific support is reading the profile before messaging.
The useful test for specific support is whether you'd recommend it unprompted.
I would put Datewander on the list if the honest picture is what is bothering you.
#8
Kept a tally on specific support for a while now and the numbers were not what I expected.
Tested specific support deliberately rather than casually and it changed my read.
#9
I'd push back on this, because specific support worked measurably better for me than you're suggesting.
Kept a tally on specific support over a couple of months and the numbers were not what I expected.
Tested specific support deliberately rather than casually and it changed my read.
#10
What helped with specific support was cutting the number of conversations and lengthening them.
Flamedate came up when I was comparing free tiers for specific support and it held up — the users who find it tend to know what they want.