Dating in today’s day and age has become a game of finding the next best thing as soon as possible. Once you’re dissatisfied you move on to the next person. This is a mindset that permeates in the vast majority of people looking to date, this is because it’s a mindset that’s been pushed onto them by the media, that tells them that there’s always something better out there and that they shouldn’t be satisfied with what they have. Rather they should always seek better and move on faster. This makes dating for people who still hold traditional values to be very difficult and makes it harder for them to find relationships.
People who hold traditional values tend to be religious, either Christians, or Muslims or Jews. They hold these views because they wish to live their lives as God intended them to, with a stable partner and children.
The problem becomes how does one find like minded individuals who are looking for the same thing?
Dating and it’s problems
It should be no surprise to anyone that modern dating is a mess that doesn’t seem to be fixing itself anytime soon, it’s just too shallow for everyone involved. No one is serious about anyone, no one cares about the needs of anyone, people simply care for what they can get without contributing anything in return. This is why it’s so upsetting for people who wish to have a stable traditional marriage or relationship, it’s difficult because many people are not religious or traditional at all. This makes it impossible for people to find someone they can date or get with.
Traditional people have a specific need when it comes to relationships that contemporary society just doesn’t have many solutions to. So the question becomes what does one do?
Catholic Dating Options
Multiple options exist for Catholic Christians, these include online and offline dating options. The online dating world regardless of if one is religious or not, tends to be superficial in one way or the other. This is something one has to live with if they wish to date someone.
The dating apps that a Catholic Christian can use are the following
Catholic Match
Catholic match is one of the largest Christian dating sites available. It’s been online since 1999, The way it works is that one sets up a profile and tries to include information about values and beliefs. Explaining what they want in the relationship, as well as specific beliefs pertaining to questions about denominations etc, this is a website which has the largest amount of people on it, the people on the website are generally serious about meeting someone as messaging requires a paid subscription.
The problem is this website only really works best if one is in a large metropolitan area which has a large population.
Catholic Luv
This is a completely free Catholic dating website, with no pay to play features as well as an easy to use platform that allows you to find and chat with the person you wish to talk to.
Bumble
This is one of the largest dating apps available, what makes it special is that only women can send a message first after getting matched making it so that the relationships on the app are more meaningful, if a woman does not message than the match gets expired. For catholics they can filter out for other catholics as Bumble provides many different filtering options making it a good choice for religious Catholics to find someone likeminded.
Christian Mingle
Christian Mingle is one of the more larger websites operating for single Catholics looking to date, this is a website that allows catholics to find other likeminded catholics by specifying which denomination they belong to for a better match.
Offline options
There are many different offline options for Catholic Christians looking to date likeminded people, chief among them being going to social events after mass. Attending singles events at your Church or finding people to mingle with in a hobby such as hiking or rock climbing.
Conclusion
Even though the dating market has become very toxic and difficult for both sexes, it’s still possible for someone who is traditional minded to find a partner, they just might need to put in more work however. For catholic singles over 50 there exists many different options they can explore.