Online dating: Does everyone lie?
In case you missed the quick and dirty scandal in the news, New York Congressman Chris Lee resigned after Gawker.com revealed that he was doing a little internet flirting. He had a brief email exchange with a single woman in DC and led her to believe that he was a 39 year old single father. Turns out he was married, with children, 46, oh and a congressman!
I felt bad for the young woman, “Leggy Glamazon” because I have certainly been where she has been. I’ve met men who totally misrepresented themselves online. I can’t imagine how I’d feel if one of the posers turned out to be a politician or public figure. (Full disclosure: I actually met and hung out with the Leggy Glamazon last year and I found her to be fabulous and cool.)
Needless to say, it brought back awful memories of discovering the lies that people tell. I think I read some outrageous statistic that up to 30% of online daters are actually married. This isn’t the – divorce papers about to be signed kind of married- either. It’s more like – still rocking the wedding band, living with mate, pretending to be happy at home – kind of married.
I won’t bash online dating because it can work, although not actively online dating myself. It’s just that stories like this reminds us that a lot of people lie online. It’s just something you have to deal with in dating – online and off.
Do you think that everyone lies on their dating profiles? Is there a way to filter out the posers?
How can you tell if the person you are dating is actually single?
Happy Friday!
By Wise Diva, Misadventures in Atlanta Dating Blog
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i'm swiss™ ("FREE ME.LO")
February 25th, 2011
3:39 pm
“All this talk about tapes, foot fetishes, honey massages, has me on a one track frame of mind!”
Leggs — Sounds like you’re due for service.
cba
February 25th, 2011
3:43 pm
Sugar Foot
Purple Rain
February 25th, 2011
3:44 pm
Over due. LOL
Purple Rain
February 25th, 2011
3:45 pm
Sugar Walls- by Sheena Easton
i'm swiss™ ("FREE ME.LO")
February 25th, 2011
3:45 pm
Careful, cba — you’ll have Blackfoote over there sucking on your toes…
Purple Rain
February 25th, 2011
3:47 pm
Swiss, you were wrong for that one. lol
Leggs
February 25th, 2011
3:52 pm
I don’t think cba would let that happen.
cba
February 25th, 2011
3:56 pm
Leggs referenced Ohio Players thus Sugar Foot
Willie Dynamite
February 25th, 2011
4:00 pm
Purp – Sheena Easton, you can add that to Prince wall of fame as well.
Purple Rain
February 25th, 2011
4:05 pm
Willie, Prince and Sheena rocked out on “you got the look” and probably in the bedroom too. LOL
i'm swiss™ ("FREE ME.LO")
February 25th, 2011
4:07 pm
Prince is living proof of the puddy-attracting power of being a rock star. Doesn’t matter how short or suspect-looking you are…
i'm swiss™ ("FREE ME.LO")
February 25th, 2011
4:07 pm
“Game, Blouses”
Purple Rain
February 25th, 2011
4:08 pm
Swiss, LOL!
BlackMagicWoman
February 25th, 2011
4:08 pm
DAMN YOU SWISS!
“Sugar Walls- by Sheena Easton”
That’s one of my favorite songs. It’s on my Ipod.
DreamsMaterialize "Free Me-Lo"
February 25th, 2011
4:09 pm
add sheila e to that too. only dude who can pull chicks in a blouse, tight leather pants and heals.
Leggs
February 25th, 2011
4:11 pm
Sheena Easton was so stiff singing that song!
Willie Dynamite
February 25th, 2011
4:12 pm
look up Sugar Walls in the Urban Dictionary and Sheena Easton is not mentioned. hahaha
Purple Rain
February 25th, 2011
4:12 pm
I bet Sheena Easton’s Sugar Walls weren’t stiff.
Purple Rain
February 25th, 2011
4:13 pm
Prince keeps a rotatition his last two wives have been hot!
i'm swiss™ ("FREE ME.LO")
February 25th, 2011
4:13 pm
“Sheena Easton was so stiff singing that song!”
Prince probably was, too…
TenderRoni
February 25th, 2011
4:14 pm
Hmmmm…honey massages sounds so interesting.
BlackMagicWoman
February 25th, 2011
4:15 pm
Sheena Easton was so stiff singing that song!”
Prince probably was, too…
Ok…I’ve officially…flatlined_____________________________________
DreamsMaterialize "Free Me-Lo"
February 25th, 2011
4:15 pm
Hmmmm…honey massages sounds so interesting.
TenderRoni Would you like more information on that, perhaps a demonstration?
Leggs
February 25th, 2011
4:16 pm
@PR ~ that’s a bet I can’t take!
i'm swiss™ ("FREE ME.LO")
February 25th, 2011
4:16 pm
Am I the only one who gets the feeling that if Prince hadn’t become a rock star, he’d be on the sex offender registry?
Willie Dynamite
February 25th, 2011
4:17 pm
Some Lyrics to Sugar Walls. its official
Lemme take you somewhere you’ve never been
I can show you things you’ve never seen
I can make you never wanna fall in love again
Come spend the night inside my sugar walls
Leggs
February 25th, 2011
4:17 pm
That was a good comeback.
TenderRoni
February 25th, 2011
4:17 pm
uhh..maybe not the demo. But info would be cool, so I can it in my aersnal for later.
i'm swiss™ ("FREE ME.LO")
February 25th, 2011
4:19 pm
WillieD — Didn’t Prince write that song for her? I know he wrote several for her, Sheila E & others….
DreamsMaterialize "Free Me-Lo"
February 25th, 2011
4:21 pm
yeah Prince wrote Sugar Walls. Funny thing is Sheena started out adult contemporary. Prince knew how to turn a chick out. lol
Willie Dynamite
February 25th, 2011
4:21 pm
Swiss – yep and I’m sure it was after getting to know her.
i'm swiss™ ("FREE ME.LO")
February 25th, 2011
4:22 pm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_Walls
Looks like he did, indeed…
Purple Rain
February 25th, 2011
4:23 pm
Swiss, I don’t think so. He’s not like a Micheal Jackson a megastart who wore makeup and liked kids Prince wears makeup and likes all the women we like but can just get them. LOL
i'm swiss™ ("FREE ME.LO")
February 25th, 2011
4:26 pm
Purple — Yeah, I didn’t mean any reference to kids — you don’t have to be a pedophile to end up on the sex offender registry, though… You can end up on the for whipping it out in the wrong place, too… Allegedly…
Leggs
February 25th, 2011
4:27 pm
Only natural for Prince to push a talented drummer like Sheila E to funk it up!
Purple Rain
February 25th, 2011
4:28 pm
Swiss, yeah ever since 9/11..thank Bin Laden
i'm swiss™ ("FREE ME.LO")
February 25th, 2011
4:29 pm
“Only natural for Prince to push a talented drummer like Sheila E to funk it up!”
Yeah, he has plenty of experience banging things, too…
DreamsMaterialize "Free Me-Lo"
February 25th, 2011
4:30 pm
Only natural for Prince to push a talented drummer like Sheila E to funk it up!
lots of pushing and funking I’m sure.
Purple Rain
February 25th, 2011
4:40 pm
Prince had Kim Basinger hooked on his sex, her brother had to come get her from his house after she wouldn’t leave. Kim was also the inspiration for Prince to write Insatiable and she is also the woman moaning on Scandalous Sex Suite. He said that she was one of the best he had in bed.
i'm swiss™ ("FREE ME.LO")
February 25th, 2011
4:42 pm
Ahhh… I think it’s time to blow this joint…
Skyyyyyyyy-rockets in flight…
Afternoon delight.
Aaa-aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-afternoon delight.
Purple Rain
February 25th, 2011
4:43 pm
LOL almost forgot Prince said that he and Kim messed up his sound board with Honey of all things.
cba
February 25th, 2011
4:43 pm
Voodoo sex ritual leads to fatal fire
czBrat
February 25th, 2011
4:49 pm
yet again … she is also the woman moaning on Scandalous Sex Suite. He said that she was one of the best he had in bed.
what’s your defense this time, carlito? aight. i’ll leave you alone now. LOL
sorry i missed most of freaky friday, but it was good reading a bit of you guys again.
ciao!
Purple Rain
February 25th, 2011
4:51 pm
CanalZone, we are talking about Prince. Come sit in my lap so that I can tell you more.
BlackMagicWoman
February 25th, 2011
4:53 pm
P-Lito…..you know so much of your Minneapolis factoids!
Leggs
February 25th, 2011
5:02 pm
“The true measure of your character is what you would do if you were sure no one would ever find out.” ~ John Maxwell
Enjoy the weekend (even if you have to work a little).
Leggs
February 25th, 2011
5:02 pm
Good night!
czBrat
February 25th, 2011
5:05 pm
can’t right now, babe, but you got next.
Willie Dynamite
February 25th, 2011
5:08 pm
“The true measure of your character is what you would do if you were sure no one would ever find out.” ~ John Maxwell
Well then I’m good……
Purple Rain
February 25th, 2011
5:17 pm
CanalZone
Black, I am a huge Prince ManFan. LOL