This is a good topic
I have been on and off dating sites for almost four years. I remember starting out very optimistic and saw it as something that was full of potential but I can definitely now say that my spirit is well and truly broken, ha ha.
To be fair, I've been out on lots of dates but the vast majority were just average dates with average men and all rather dull. I don't wish to say "average men" in a derogatory fashion, like I'm a cut above, but simply put, they were nice enough but we just shared a complete lack of spark, chemistry and attraction.
Funny, the very first date I went on, I thought I'd met my soul mate. I even mentioned my diabetes because the drink he got me was carby (they'd served him the wrong type) and he mentioned he was coeliac, so we had a bit of a laugh sharing our medical history. Unfortunately, though, it never worked out.
Might sound hard to believe, but in my almost 4yrs, I have been contacted by three T1 men. I knew they were T1 because they all mentioned insulin in their profiles
They didn't know I was T1 as I don't mention it in my profile.
First one, I arranged a date with, but the day before he decided we lived too far apart. He was the next city over, so fair enough, but have no idea why he even contacted me in the first place if I was too far away. Why even search for women in my area?
Second one, was a brilliant email conversationalist but it became increasingly apparent that all he wanted to do was play email pin-pong and not meet in real life. We arranged a date due to me taking the initiative, but he flaked out, never to be heard from again.
Third, was recent, he had been T1 for 8yrs (same as me) and when I made a little joke about hypos, he claimed he'd never ever had one. In disbelief, I said surely this was not possible. He totally insisted that due to him being careful and well-controlled he had never been hypo and he always knew when he needed sugar (??) Turned out he thought having a hypo meant being unconscious and needing an ambulance(!!) The convo never went any further as beyond the D talk I wasn't interested anyway.
I'm not sure, you know. I think I'm about as much diabetes as I want in my life. Also, it would depend on the other person's outlook and how they manage their condition. I just know I couldn't put up with someone who was nonchalant about educating and looking after themselves and/or had a very bleak, 'wallowing on the misery of it all' outlook.
