Dating sites are platforms for people to meet and mingle.

Some of these people are in search of different outcomes.

Some want to chat and nothing more.

Others want casual relationships.

And yes, some what true love and real relationships.

Not every dating site is created equal.

If your goal is to find true love and a real relationship, ensure that you join dating sites that are designed for a crowd in search of the same.

People who are unsuccessful at finding true love and real relationships on dating sites usually join the wrong dating sites.

Refrain from getting caught up on the popularity of any given matchmaking site.

The popularity of a dating site doesn’t mean that it is ideal for you.

What is ideal for you may be a dating site that is more niche and specific to who it caters to.

You are bound to struggle to find true love and real relationships if are on dating sites that are renowned for casual relationships or hookups.

Several of these dating sites already have a reputation for being known as hookup sites.

That said, there a telltale signs that you are on a dating site that caters to people seeking casual relationships more so than true love and real relationships.

For one, profiles are far more photo-centric than word-centric.

These are profiles that barely have any words or sentences in their bios.

It’s all about the photos that are posted.

These photos are provocative.

They are clearly designed for maximum effect in capturing the attention of those who are seeking casual dalliances.

A guy that is shirtless in a few of his photos.

He is in tank tops that expose his muscled arms and pronounce his pectoral chest muscles.

He wears tight shorts, speedos even, in a few of his photos.

There are several close-ups that show his rock hard abs.

These are photos that are totally superficial and rarely of substance.

A dating site that is high on photos that show lots of skin as opposed to bios filled with substantive words, is one that serves a crowd that is looking for hookups.

Keep all of this in mind as you go on your online dating adventure.

Also, finding true love and real relationships on online dating sites require patience.

You won’t find the love of your life on the first week that you sign up on dating sites.

On average, it takes six months to a year of consistent activity to find true love and a real relationship on a dating site.

According to a study by the Pew Research Center, roughly ten percent of adults in the US have found marriage or a live-in partner through dating sites.

This is a tremendous number.

That’s millions of people.

Considering how taboo online dating was in its early years, it says a lot that so many people are now using it to find true love and real relationships.

This said, be careful that you don’t fall into a trap of incessant swiping, convinced that a better match awaits.

This is the “shiny object” effect of dating sites, where the temptation to keep receiving matches, believing that there is always someone better, usurps common sense.

When you catch this disease, you end up jeopardizing good matches based on a greedy desire to match with someone even better.

The perfect match is a fallacy.

As long as you know what your biggest deal breakers are, never give up on a good match merely due to trivial flaws.

A pattern of doing this traps you in an endless cycle of short-lived courtships that prevent you from ever finding true love and a real relationship.