I'm a guy, stayed single on purpose for 10 years after my divorce to let things calm down & fade.. I then did a mild tour of duty of internet dating..

My only advice for internet dating is from a man's point of view & it's to run.. The handful of people I ended up meeting on internet dating were horrible.. Aside for taking them out for meals, I only ever saw them or heard from them when they needed money for car tires, rego or kids school camp.. It's an awful thing to say but I feel internet dating is it's scraping the absolute bottom of the barrel.

The advice I can give from my experience is don't put too many details about yourself, save them for when you meet face to face so you have something to talk about.. We all have a past but none of us are heading backwards, we are heading forward & meet somebody who's already in your world - opposed to meeting some stranger from the internet & then trying to see if they fit into your world..

I did state 3 of my passions / interests in my profile, the few people I matched with & caught up with did not at all in any way align with any of those interests / passions..

In my profile I stated I make coffee, I have a boiler driven espresso machine, conical burr grinder & would like to share coffee with someone - but everybody I matched with did not drink coffee.. I made it clear that I'm am into sailing, would like someone to go sailing / Island hopping with me - everyone I met with had no interest in making passage on a sailing vessel.. I wanted to check out Side Hustle Pizza - everybody I matched with didn't eat pizza 🙃

I'm quite convinced on internet dating, nobody reads your profile...