Is there a trick to picking out the real people in the personals?
All online dating ads look the same to me. Is there a trick to picking out the real people in the personals?
They key is to know how to interpret what people are saying. Simply taking the words at face value is completely pointless.
What you need to have in mind when reading the ads: the rule of opposites:
- “I don’t have…” translates to: “I have…” or “I have had…”
- “I very rarely…” translates to: “I often…”
- “I’m not (really) in to…” translates to: “I’m obsessive (pathologically so) about…”
- “I can’t be…” translates to: “I’m easily…”
- “I’m not considered…” translates to: “People think I’m…”
- Dog
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