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Admit it...meeting people and dating now is the pits. It doesn't matter where you live, how young or how old you are, what you do for a living or what sex you are. Finding another person to date, much less a mate, just isn't as easy as it used to be - at least as easy as we think it used to be.

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We've all heard about men who have rented billboards and put personal ads on them. We've seen daughters go on TV talk shows to try to find dates for their mothers from a studio made up of eligible men. It is a jungle out there. Between the fear of AIDS and all of the just plain weird people that there are in the world, many people have just about given up and are trying to find the positive aspects of celibacy and the monastic life.

Most of us don't consider celibacy or the monastic life to be viable options. Most of us can't afford to rent a billboard. Sally and Oprah don't want to hear our sad stories. There are just too many of us. Joining a dating service is usually too expensive. Some of us do the next best thing, we turn to answering or writing personal ads.

The personal ads are a lot like supermarket tabloids. Everyone jokes about them. Everyone makes fun of people that read them. Everyone is skeptical of what is written in them. Everyone wonders who writes them. And everyone reads them.

You've been tempted to either answer a personal ad or to write a personal ad yourself or you wouldn't be reading this right now. If you haven't responded to a personal ad, you probably worry that only losers and weirdos place them. You may worry that you'll only meet people who can't get a date any other way other than through personal ads. Even though you aren't a loser and you're thinking about placing or responding to an ad, you still aren't convinced that it's a safe or sane way to connect with safe or sane people.

Using the personals ads to meet people seems like such a desperate step to take. Its like you're admitting to the whole world that you can't meet people any other way. So you put down the personal ads, go out to the kitchen and make stir-fry for one and watch TV alone again.

Is it possible to meet attractive and compatible people through a personal ad? Absolutely. My younger brother met the woman that he married through a personal ad. It didn't happen overnight. He had to put in quite a few personal ads and went on a lot of dates that didn't lead anywhere. He finally found his sweetie though. I haven't found my perfect match yet, but I have met a lot of really nice women and had a number of very satisfying long-term relationships. I'm still friends with some of the women that I've met through personals ads. I also have a lot of stories to tell. You probably have friends who are dating or may have even married people that they met through personal ads, but are too ashamed to admit how they met.

This article is an excerpt from our publication, "Effective Personal Ads - How to Write Personal Ads or Respond to Personal Ads."