I've been separated (and in divorce process) since August 2022. I work two jobs and essentially do online "dating" as my 3rd job. Therefore, I've been working 3 jobs for the past year w/o much breaks in-between. I'm just wondering if anyone has ever successfully used a dating app to meet someone? Which apps have you used? One of the problems I find w/ many of these apps is that they continue to show me many women that just live too far away from me (to potentially see every day).

I have used Facebook, Facebook Dating, Tinder, Hinge (this one is useless), Grindr (ugh!), and MeetMe. Despite meeting hundreds of women online, and never having met a single one in person, I would have to conclude that online dating is largely a failure. Literally 99% of the women I have met online are beggars, liars, and scammers. A large % of the American women use online dating to try to "beg" men to send them money, gift cards, pay the internet, or pay their phone bill while a large % of the Asians and international women will try to scam me into doing short-term cryptocurrency trading (I've learned from many experiences that this is a huge scam so DON'T do this).

I'm hopefully looking for success stories here as I often get discouraged and need a little something to inspire me to keep going. I just turned 52 years old and I feel like I have my last run to try to get into a good relationship w/ a woman who's independent and successful. I want to hear success stories but of course on the way to those success stories there are probably many more horror (or failure) stories so I'd like to hear those too. Maybe we can compare notes?