Update 2: At least Apple was kind enough to refund my money. I’m glad I learned my lesson the easy way. No more dating apps ever again for me!
Update: Thanks all for your overwhelming support. I really needed these words of comfort. Besides this, I live a very lonely isolated life and it's difficult to meet new people. Regardless of being very active, working out a lot and doing a lot of social activities. I will try to reply everything, but I have definitely read everything!
I’m 33M and last night I downloaded Tinder again after deleting it for the 100th time. In a few hours I got 16 likes, but not a match. So I decided to go ahead and pay for one week to see these matches. Literally all of them were fake accounts. Not a single one of these 16 were real.
I broke down in tears, because my dating life hasn’t really been good. As a POC it’s even more difficult. Then, as the idiot I am, I went ahead and spent money just to find out all of it is just a scam. I don’t know how to deal with this anymore. Meeting in real life is basically non existent in this day and age.
I’m just so over with life itself. My self esteem is completely down the gutter. I wish there was an easy and painless escape out of this life.
Never expect a business model that relies on customers being single to help you not be single. Also, a relationship won’t help your self esteem. Having been where you are I understand it’s not easy, but you’ve got to love you first, without that you won’t allow yourself to accept love from anyone else, and speaking from experience that is a guaranteed self destruct scenario for any potential relationship.
Never more true words than this. I don't expect it to fix anything for me though, I just expect to match real people. Not bot or spam accounts. Not getting any matches is difficult to deal with, mostly because the sea is so dry with dead fish.
My mental health took a blow in the last 3 years and things have been going in a roller coaster kind of way. I definitely need to find some stability first.
God speed.