Here's my observation of online dating, from mine and many of my friends' experience, men and women both: It's just the law of large numbers. No given "match" i

Here's my observation of online dating, from mine and many of my friends' experience, men and women both: It's just the law of large numbers. No given "match" is likely to work out. But if you give it enough time, _some_ match _will_ work out. Thus, the process sucks, but it tends to resolve somewhat favorably for most people. After three years of fairly continuous online dating on every platform that'd have me, dozens of dates, and probably four or five "seriously dating" episodes lasting a couple of months, I met my now-fiancé on Bumble. She was my first and only successful date from that app. I was days away from deleting it. I don't know why I didn't stop sooner. It was an awful, demoralizing, sometimes dehumanizing process. But I'm glad I didn't. Survivor's bias, I guess.