By Common Consent, a Mormon Blog. I have a friend, a convert to the church, who is handsome, faithful, smart, gainfully employed, and lonely beyond words. I had lunch with him yesterday and was horrified to see the depth of his loneliness: he pays for a membership in some kind of email exchange involving improbably beautiful Eastern European women. A scam, in other words.

A lawsuit, originally filed in , brought by two gay men against the owner of several faith-based dating websites, has been settled.

TL;DR: There’s no room for games on EliteSingles , a mature dating site for educated singles looking for a partner who understands the 9-to-5 lifestyle. Unfortunately, the site’s snooty tendencies and failure to back claims may be its downfall. Sign up for EliteSingles See Details. It doesn’t matter what year you graduated — dating in college is almost always a nightmare. Aside from the 15 percent of people who can thank their alma mater for putting their future spouse on the same campus, most of the degree-holding population is sent into the real world alone.

Dating doesn’t get better once you’re freed from the shackles of exams and extracurriculars: Finding a potential boo who can sync with your 9-to-5 lifestyle and understand that no, you can’t go to the bar on a Sunday night, doesn’t automatically come with aging past For those unwilling to budge when it comes to their partner’s educational values and career goals, EliteSingles attempts to offer more specificity where eharmony and Match leave off.

As surface-level as they seem, money, work ethic, and professional schedules are things that can make or break a serious relationship. Finding a cute person with similar interests to yours is one thing, but finding someone you’d feel comfortable having a joint bank account with is harder. We talked to Maria Ivanik, a marketing manager at Elite Singles , to get the user base stats for , and you’re in luck: EliteSingles has , active users who want to find the same exact thing that you do.

However, the site gets a lot of shit for being more focused on the percentage of college degrees than it is on the actual connections being made on the site. Is the high price point worth it to find a romantic partner who understands when it’s time to buckle down, or is EliteSingles just snooty with no statistics to back it up? As if there were any doubt before, the profile setup process convinced me that we are far from the instant gratification world of Tinder or Hinge.