Dear Dr. Dan,
I hope I'm writing my question on the right thread .
Anywho here's my situation....
I'm converting, and also I'm not the dating type. I mean, I don't believe in casual dating, only modest dating for marriage. If I put a "dating section thread", I really can't put it anywhere on the forum. I mean, I can't put a thread on the Jewish dating section because I'm not Jewish yet. And I don't want to put one on the "righteous Gentile Dating" section because I don't want to date a Gentile, the reason is that I am only interested in dating and marrying a religious Jewish man in the future when I can. And a gentile man would interfere with my destiny. That is out of the question for me and completely unacceptable, so no Gentile men for me.
Also because of my situation, I always figured that I would have to lower my standards since no one would want to marry me and it seems that someone will have to "settle" for a convertee like me, like an older man or a divorced man etc. So at the present moment and under my situation since I can't date Jewish men yet, would it be wise to just look for a gentile who is also in the process of converting?
Or just stop worrying and concentrate on finishing up my conversion and THEN start looking. In other words, "whatever will be, will be"?
Maybe I'm just over thinking!
So what do you think. Everyone I know is happily dating but me I can't date anyone
Mills
First, I want to say this...everytime i see your name or your post i think of your youtube video and what a righteous HOTTY you are... You have absolutely nothing to worry about in regards to finding the right religious man and you shouldn't have to settle for anything less. My first question to you is how old are you and how far along are you in your conversion and where are you from?
1. You should only be eyeing Jews to date right now, but not dating them right away. Focus on your conversion.
2. A convertee marrying another convertee does make the most sense because there is more in common. However not necessary. If I were a religious Jew, I know I would want to meet you to see if you were right for me..and I would truely know you converted to Judaism for the right reasons.
3. Don't date just because everybody else around you is dating. Just do your thing, get to know people in the meantime, make new friends. Ask other people questions and don't talk too much about yourself and see based on their answers if they were the type that would be worth looking into marrying in the future.
4. As far as dating..my experience with that is you get to see different personalties and it helps to tell you, what type of person you want to be with in the future and who you don't want to be with in the future. But then again, everyone is differnet. Some already know waht they want by observing others.