There are many quests in life…the quest for happiness, the quest for the right job, the quest for meaning, the quest for God, the quest for the right mate and on and on…Today, I want to illuminate a bit about a quest for the right mate. From the time I admitted to myself and to God that I really wanted to be married to the actual time I said, “I do” was about 10 years! Yes, I was on this quest for roughly a decade…Still, it was all worth it in spite of the time and heartache I went through…

I’m not ashamed to admit that I used many methods to meet nice men. One of my methods was online dating. Despite its nearly SAT of an introductory questionnaire, I tried eHarmony. I had many conversations with several men, but I only went out on dates with two of the men. One of the men was a nice attorney who actually lived in the same county where I lived…How coincidental is that? While we didn’t have chemistry based on our first date, we ended up being friends…The second gentleman I went out with struck me as “touched.” He had changed his name much like Prince changed his name to a symbol and one of his aspirations was to open a franchise of churches…His words not mine…We met a restaurant here in town. I drove there in my car and he drove in his car. He had some issue with his car. A rental car or something…The details are hazy now…Anywho, after we had dinner, he invited me to go to another location, some kind of game place. He suggested I leave my car and ride with him…As they say, mama didn’t raise no fool…I didn’t get in the car with him and there wasn’t a second date…

Anywho, my point in sharing this snippet from my dating adventures is to share that dating online is a great way to meet people you may not encountered in your everyday life for whatever reason, but you have to be cautious…

I don’t know if Sean Patrick Banks is guilty of raping two women he met on Christian Mingle and match.com, but I hope this story encourages people to be cautious in their quest in meet a mate whether on or offline…

Any thoughts?

P.S. Just because a man claims to be a Christian does not mean he is not “special,” “touched”…you know what I mean…use your smarts before you give away your heart…

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