relationshipweb.com

Be warned: this is the place for weepy rants - and I'm actually not taking the piss. I've spent far too much time posting here at a certain time in my life to do that. Suffice to say that it is a very useful place to go when you want to keep ranting about the end of a relationship when all your friends are so bored of listening to you they fill their ears with cotton wool before meeting you for a drink. So, what is relationshipweb? Basically it's one of those dreaded self-help American sites, devoted to Relationships Going Wrong. There's a category for everyone here, from substance abuse to ... more

I’d been on the Internet for nearly a year but I didn’t bother much with it. A friend of mine showed me how to use e-mail, then introduced me to newsgroups. One night in July I stumbled across a singles newsgroup (must have been some kind of “divine intervention”). I was intrigued. I decided to put an ad in to see if anyone would actually reply – it was never my intention to “hook up” with anyone, it was just curiosity. I was really surprised at the response (I didn’t think anyone would read it, let alone reply). I conversed with a few guys ... more