You also need to do justice to yourself. Most of the people on the "dating' scene are self-centered - they are looking for something for "me". You may be right fb2....but what kept me going is the belief that there are good people out there. Hell there are good people on this site, why should it be different in the real world.
Agreed John there are good people out there somewhere but its not worth a lot of our time and energy finding a needle in a haystack given all the other heavy lifting due to the 'sitch' and a new 'R' does take a lot of time and energy and risk (I'm speaking from my own POV of course; when school starts again I will have my kids 64.29% of the time; I have no time, money or patience to experiment with or impress some self-seeking date; a really good woman for me will not be posted on match.com or craigslist or anything like that I'm afraid).