Introverts of Reddit, how did you manage to get into a relationship?

It means a great deal to me that I met my husband online because I response to a different commenter and then you chimed in debating my response? Yea ok....

Here’s the thing mainstream is recognized as being thought of a normal in society. I don’t know where you live, nor do I care but I’m a lot of areas of the country online dating was unheard of as a lot of people still didn’t even have internet in some parts of the country. Did I say that the relationship was unrecognized? No so you can stop putting words in my mouth. But with your assumption that it was mainstream then you’re also assuming that’s it’s used and known by the majority it’s not.

You dated tons of women that made up these elaborate stories about how you dated, are you sure that it was because of online dating? People don’t seem to have a problem now days responding that they met on Tinder or Bumble or whatever. In 2005 online dating wasn’t used by the majority and if you have a discussion with someone that didn’t know what it was and you explained it to them “I met someone online, we started dating” you were sometimes made fun of because it seemed like something was wrong with you because you couldn’t find a date in person. Plus we can’t forget all of those eHarmony and Match.com advertisements. I don’t believe I’ve seen a Match.com commercial since 2015. In 2005 I saw one everything time there was a commercial break. So if it was so mainstream why were there so many advertisements? Generally you advertise to draw people’s attention to your product. If everyone knew about it and used it why spend so much money on advertising.

I’m sorry you got hung up on my original comment “wasn’t even really a thought” enough to become triggered enough to debate my opinion. But my opinion is that it wasn’t a thought. In my area regionally it was not normalized. If you live in one of the more popular areas NY, FL, CA, TX then maybe it was mainstream there but in my area and surrounding states it was not. As for your opinion, I don’t care what you opinion is and I never tried to convince you of anything. You’re entitled to think anything you want to but calling people names like “nonsense” but it doesn’t agree with your idea is even more nonsense.

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