Matchmaker helps singles over 40 start over
Lorraine McDaniel knows all too well that you may have to go on four dozen first dates before you find someone who resembles the profile you saw online or even a person you want to date.
The San Juan Capistrano resident tumbled into Internet dating after her husband died of a heart attack a few years ago. It Ghd Stockists Sydney Cbd became part of her transition from mom next door to single gal looking for love. It took time and lots of help, but she has culled her online dating knowledge to help pastors, mothers, grandfathers and other 40 plus singles search for their match through her new business, Start'n Over Fabulous.
Recently she set up a 70 year old widow with a 75 year old man. When the Mission Viejo woman met McDaniel, she wanted to move on after her husband died, but she didn't know how. McDaniel suggested online dating. She had her write a profile. Nike Free Run Australia The first line: "I was widowed five years ago."
The online profile is tricky. McDaniel, 54, wrote several before the one that helped her snag her current boyfriend. The first few focused on being a hurt widow. Nike Free Runs Australia Then she wrote without thinking about her emotional baggage.
That's what she did for the 70 year old, changing the opening of her profile to: "A warm smile. Light on her feet. Graceful. Lots of energy. Musically oriented. That's how someone would describe Ginger Rogers. It's also how my kids describe me." Ginger Rogers became her pseudonym.
McDaniel tries to get across to her clients that being widowed or divorced shouldn't define them. After McDaniel grew her hair, dyed it darker and swapped Ghd Sale Australia sweat pants for chic outfits, people began asking her for makeover advice and dating tips.
"I looked like someone's mom," said McDaniel, who Ghd Hair Straighteners Ebay has a teenage son. "I thought to myself, 'This is my second act. I don't have another.'"
A real estate agent by day, she does online dating consulting in Orange County on the side to help the timid get over the most difficult step of all the first one.
"Everybody wants someone to knock on their door and say, 'Here I am.' That's not going to happen. Getting them depends on how bad you really want them," McDaniel said. "It's about a loss, coming back from something you thought was never going to happen to you. It's about support."
McDaniel provides that support by crafting online profiles, finding the right dating portal for clients (there are dozens of websites for seemingly every type of person) and giving unlimited phone support. Her services come in packages running from $39 to $249. She also takes clients on shopping trips, giving them advice on what to wear on dates. She said her service works because 40 plus singles Nike Australia Free Shipping are often too scared to ask their friends for help with makeovers or online dating.
Though some might consider writing someone else's profile misleading, McDaniel said she describes her clients as they are, Chi Straightener Price but in a way they can't put down in words.
McDaniel's boyfriend said her bio got him from the start.
"When I read Lorraine's profile and saw the pictures she posted, I knew I just had Ghd Hair Dryer to meet her. I never read a bio like that before. It wasn't a description of who she was, like all the others you read. It was what was in her heart," the 56 year old divorcee wrote on McDaniel's website.
Finding him wasn't easy. McDaniel went on dozens of dates before they met. She suffered rejection and awkwardness. On her first date, she fumbled through dinner, clumsily messing with silverware and tugging on her clothes. On some dates, the man didn't fit his profile at all.
McDaniel often gives advice to singles groups throughout the county. On Tuesdays, Ocean Hills Church in San Juan Capistrano hosts the group Life after 40 Singles, which McDaniel has talked to before. She even wrote a profile for the pastor who leads the group and set him up on two dates.
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