Young2Ginger - glad to have helped. I still get the occasional question about who is messaging but it's rare now.
Momma is good for a few hours as long as meals are handled (she's diabetic) so we only need to hire help for overnight getaways. Our favorite respite care worker just started a full-time job so we may have to go back to the agency.
Have fun!
P&W: I hadn't even thought about saying in our profile that I'm the one on here, rather than Hubby. I like that, since it seems to be the men that run most profiles, and it could make things more fluid.
We have trouble getting away for the same reason, and weekends are a nightmare to arrange sometimes! Good luck with that; it is easy easier to get a babysitter than an elderly-adult sitter!
I was hoping for more opinions. But maybe you said it all?
Anyhow I made a few small changes and they've been approved.
If anyone else cares to chime in I welcome any and all opinions!
Both, I think. ;-)
Velma never did explain if she was worried for us or about us...
Hi. Fortunately, this time no one is going to be reminded of a Criminal Minds episode. ;-)
I generally like this iteration, but think you can do better in both the text and in your current photo options. At the very least, take a camera on your next hike and take photos of one another, lots of them, so you can have one current pic of each of you to send, along with whatever travel photos you have of the two of you together.
As far as the written portion, Looking For is currently more of a list than a narrative and therefore isn't as charming as I know you can be. And in Additional comments you've so emphasized how difficult it is to plan things with you that you've done a fine job of discouraging all but the most persistent. I don't think that's in your best interest, especially as you venture into the previously untapped arena of swapping and want the widest possible range of choices.
What if you just say being caretakers for an elderly relative means you need to stay nearby and aren't as free as you'd like to be? It has the advantage of being true without signaling that you're mostly unavailable, which is what you're doing now.
I hope other people comment too, so you get the widest range of responses. Good luck. ;-)
I've revised our profile - figure I should let my far-flung friends and fellow profile reviewers critique it. ;-)
We have no public pictures by design - it minimizes messages from those that just look at picture before shooting off a "hi, wanna fuck" message. I'm well aware that some wonderful people probably pass us by but for now we get more interesting messages than we can deal with. When our situation changes and we're more available then we'll put up some public photos.
I do open a gallery with a couple photos from our 2018 RV trip when sending an initial message or once I decide to exchange messages with someone. They're a bit old but at our age we don't change much and I always tell people when they were taken.
~Phoebert's Wife
