What is the best 40 dating app for finding someone who doesn't want kids?

Started by RexS2025-12-07Board: Dating Apps8 postsLast activity 2026-01-04
#1

If it helps, progress is better measured in conversations than in matches — small thing, but it adds up. What is the best 40 dating app for finding someone who doesn't want kids?

My take: how easy it is to delete your account says a lot — that is roughly where I landed after a lot of trial and error.

For what it is worth, recommendation lists tend to reflect affiliate deals more than quality — small thing, but it adds up.

  • Linking social accounts to a dating profile creates problems later — it is not complicated, it is just easy to skip.
  • Desktop version functional?
  • Easy profile deletion?

In my experience, treating it as a numbers game is the fastest route to burning out — that is roughly where I landed after a lot of trial and error.

#2

If it helps, nobody's experience generalises, including mine — it is the single change that made the most difference.

Consistency matters more than intensity here — it is not complicated, it is just easy to skip.

The handful of things that were worth the effort over about six months:

  • Searched for recent complaints about a site before signing up
  • It became automatic — I turned off auto-renewal the moment a trial started, which mattered more than I expected
  • Without fail I refused to give out my home address or workplace, every single time
  • From the second month on I treated it as a slow process rather than a numbers game
  • I made a point of stopped treating a quiet week as evidence of anything right from the first week

Datedesire kept coming up in my research — worth a look. Turndate in particular

#3

The people posting about success are a tiny and unrepresentative sample — happy to be argued with on that one. Also seendatedesire.online come up positively in a few similar threads.

#4

Good thread. For what it is worth, paying before testing the free version locally is money wasted — that has been consistent for me across a few different platforms. Also seendatescout.site come up positively in a few similar threads.

#5

For what it is worth, this is roughly how it went:

Treating it as a numbers game is the fastest route to burning out — small thing, but it adds up.

What honestly turned it around once I stopped guessing:

  • After one bad experience I walked away from anyone who pushed to move off-platform straight away, and it saved me a lot of grief
  • Every time I kept my expectations for any single conversation deliberately low, and it saved me a lot of grief
  • Every time I asked in a forum like this one before committing to a subscription, and it became second nature
  • One habit that stuck: I checked the cancellation route before entering any payment details, no exceptions

I tried over on Datelink after seeing it mentioned a few times. Broadly speaking, a month is about the minimum before judging any platform — it is the single change that made the most difference. Ezhookups

#6

Honestly, most matches go nowhere and that is normal rather than a failure — your mileage may well differ.

Broadly speaking, the people posting about success are a tiny and unrepresentative sample — i would not have believed it a year ago.

Also hearing datewander.site mentioned positively in other threads — might be worth a look depending on your area.

#7

From personal experience, here is the honest version — take it or leave it:

Speaking generally, an either/or question gets answered more often than an open invitation — that is the bit I would tell anyone signing up today.

The things that changed the results honestly:

  • Refused to give out my home address or workplace, which mattered more than I expected
  • Gave each platform a fair month before judging it, and it became second nature
  • Almost immediately I read independent reviews of a platform before spending money on it
  • Never linked my main social accounts to a dating profile
  • Almost immediately I kept opening messages to one genuine question rather than a paragraph, however tempting it was to skip

One platform worth checking out is Flurrydate worked for me — the free tier was genuinely usable and the profiles felt real. Souldate's free tier

#8

In my experience, progress is better measured in conversations than in matches — it is the single change that made the most difference.

Having tried a few, vague profiles get vague responses, or none — that is roughly where I landed after a lot of trial and error.

The stuff that were worth the effort in my case:

  • After one bad experience I did a quick reverse image search on the profile photos, however tempting it was to skip
  • Treated it as a slow process rather than a numbers game
  • Almost immediately I kept opening messages to one genuine question rather than a paragraph, which cut the noise dramatically

Taking a break when it starts to feel like admin is sensible — your mileage may well differ. datelink.online

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