I come from an extremely religious family who insists that I marry within our faith so I decided to join Jewish Singles Washington DC. All of my siblings married other Jewish people and the same is expected of me, but the thing is I don't care about the person's religion; I care about whom the person is inside.
But since my family is so important to me, I am trying to meet a Jewish man that I want to marry. But that hasn't happened. My family lives in New York City and has no idea that I've been dating non Jewish single men. So since my parent's can be very persuasive they actually offered to pay for me to sign up for events held on a particular online dating site. I told them it was okay and that there was no need to pay because I had the money.
This site had all kinds of events for Jewish men and women to do together. There was speed dating, dinners at nice restaurants, parties for special holidays, hikes in national parks, cooking classes and even a Passover dinner for those of us that couldn't get to our families due to work or other obligations. Jewish Singles Washington DC turned out to be better than I expected.
I also decided to try the Jewish singes online sites. After a challenging application process I got several responses from men I wanted to meet. My first date was at an incredible restaurant for lunch. He was very handsome and sweet but he would not shut up! Almost the entire lunch was about him. The next date I went on took me to an event at the Kennedy Center followed by some appetizers and drinks at a restaurant nearby. He too was handsome and sweet but told me straight away that he was going to continue online dating for at least a year before he made his decision on a woman. They say the third time's a charm and it was. The man I met is wonderful and we had so much in common, liked to do the same things, had the same taste in movies and both loved dogs (and both owned one.)
We're not married yet but at least I have Jewish Singles Washington DC to turn to if things don't work out when I want to find dates. My parent's couldn't be more thrilled!