What mature dating on a site like this is actually like: who is here, how far people will travel, what a first message should do, and what it costs. No promises we cannot keep.
Mature dating here means older women and the younger men who are looking for them. The women arrive from very different places. Some have been on their own for a decade and have got used to it. Some were widowed two years ago and are only now thinking about it. Some separated at 55 and have not dated since they were 25, when none of this existed. The men are mostly younger and are here deliberately rather than by accident.
What is different from a mainstream app is the pace. Very little of what happens here happens in an afternoon. People write properly, they take a few days over it, and they meet for a coffee before anything else. If you want a site that moves faster than that, this is not it, and there is no point either of us pretending otherwise.
Older Australian women, and men who are mostly a good deal younger. There are more men than women, and there is no sense hiding that: it is the most useful single thing a woman deciding about this site could know, and it is on the page written for her as well.
The women here are in their fifties, sixties and seventies. They are not a category, they did not join to be available, and they are deciding about you at the same time you are deciding about them. Dating older women in Australia is about how to be someone worth replying to, which is a more useful subject than who is on the site.
This is where most mature dating sites quietly mislead people. A distance filter set to 100 kilometres does not mean anybody will drive 100 kilometres. In Sydney or Melbourne, most people will cross town once for someone they have already spoken to properly, and very few will do it twice a week. Outside the capitals the distances get real quickly.
Mature dating near you goes through this properly, city by city.
One thing: give the other person something to reply to. A message that says nothing specific gets nothing back, and a message that opens with what you want physically gets less than nothing. The people who do well on this site write three or four sentences that show they read the profile, say what they are actually after, and ask one real question.
Being clear about what you are looking for is not rude. Plenty of people here want sex and say so. Plenty want company first and say that. Both are normal and neither is assumed, so saying which one you are saves everybody a week.
Joining, your profile and browsing are free. Messaging needs a paid membership. The pricing page sets out the structure in full, and it changes when the prices change. A paid membership buys messaging and nothing else. It does not buy an outcome with another member.
Our safety page covers the two things that go wrong most often on sites like this, both of which disproportionately target this age band. It is short and it is worth ten minutes.
On this site it means women in their fifties, sixties and seventies, and men who are mostly younger and are looking for exactly that. The age gap is the point rather than something to work around.
In the capitals, most people will cross town for someone they have already spoken to properly, and few will do it twice a week. Outside the capitals the distances get real quickly and it is worth being honest about that in your first message.
Yes. Building a profile and browsing are free and no card is needed. Messaging needs a paid membership.
Older women, and men who are mostly younger than they are. There are more men than women, and we say so rather than pretending otherwise. Every page is written so that both can read it.
Building a profile and browsing cost nothing, and no card is needed to look around.
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