I'm not quite sure what to expect from a dating website.

If I'm honest, I have quite a packed life - but unfortunately little of my packed life involves love or some kind of close relationship, which if you don't have, it seems these days makes you some kinda leper in which folks suggest stuff, or at least look at you funny.

Oddest thing? I don't reckon I'm a proper ugly bloke or anything, and I doubt I'm insecure or have any dodgy neurosis' that would make folks run seventy miles. Which baffles me as to why I am on this website in the first place.

My guess:
Time and opportunity - -

My job eats a lot of it.
Never mind the job - It's also family time (I have a big family, and also am a big family man, even though I don't have one I have made of my own, yet)
Also there are friends who I care about who I am at liberty to socialise with and spend hours with, which is usually one of my favourite past-times

As a result, if I'm to arrange any sort of time or opportunity with someone I might like to spend some 'intimate' or at least, time 'getting to know somebody who might actually care and have feelings for me - as I develop likewise towards her' then - well - there's not a lot of that.

I'm not shy, and as much as I am articulate and intellectual (as this essay might suggest) I am also a fun and easy-going sorta youth - a man who is grounded, down-to-earth and also a frigging pleasure seeker - if that makes sense. Someone who likes to think he is a 'good man' - a person with other's interests at heart -

Perhaps my own analysis of myself is deluded and wrong - I hope to God not - and maybe most women would think - who the **** is this loser, nonsense twat I am seeing here -

Maybe everybody's right?

But hey-ho this is my introductory statement on this forum, in which I will boil down to a simple fourteen-word sentence:

I am looking for someone to share awesome times with, if she wants to...

Enjoining the forums helps get yourself noticed.
Always good for laughs here, too.

Welcome and enjoy :-)

Well aren't you a breath of fresh air! Welcome mrdevenport :)

Too much self praise and too much self pity in there for my liking.
Nevertheless, it was better than some crackpot new member posts.
If you want my opinion, and it is just my opinion, you need to lighten up.
I wish you well and good luck.

This tells me you're too busy, and would rather be spending time with friends, than actually find a date. That's all well and good, but why waste your own time then, if you've made your mind up? You don't sound like you want to be on here. Do what's important to you.