From what I have seen, the people posting about success are a tiny and unrepresentative sample — it sounds obvious written down, but it took a while to land. Is there a specific dating app for herpes positive individuals in the UK?
Speaking generally, consistency matters more than intensity here — i would not have believed it a year ago.
From my side, most matches go nowhere and that is normal rather than a failure — nobody tells you this at the start.
- Stripped location data from any picture before uploading it, and I still do it now
- It became automatic — I accepted that not every match was going to lead anywhere, no exceptions
- From the second month on I stopped apologising for slow replies and just replied, and the difference showed within days
Broadly speaking, expecting any single conversation to work out is the wrong frame — that is the bit I would tell anyone signing up today.