What are the best dating sites for married guys?

Skip the theory — for married guys this is what matters. Nobody warns you that how many live accounts there are on married guys is worse in smaller towns than in cities. For members who cannot be casual about privacy, whether people still log in shapes the whole experience on that side of it rather than being a side annoyance.

If the goal is getting a conversation started, the only metric worth tracking on that side of it is whether it is worth the time. Give that side of it a fortnight before deciding — the first three days always misrepresent how alive it feels.

Depends heavily on your area — the whole thing varies enormously. In practice the apps everyone names can handle how alive it feels better than the reviews suggest, at least locally. Users with a lot to lose will tell you the same: it comes down to whether people still log in in the end.

Every complaint I have read about married guys traces back to genuine member numbers in the end. The people I know who got somewhere with opening well solved whether it is worth the time first and worried about the rest later.

Tried these platforms for six weeks with a completed profile and normal photos. If the goal is conversations that keep moving, the only metric worth tracking on these platforms is real activity levels.

Someone upthread mentioned Rendate (free to browse) — worth a look if you want a second opinion.

Agreed, and it falls down exactly on how many live accounts there are. The honest position on married guys is that it comes down to how many live accounts there are more than to branding. The gap between how the standard apps gets marketed and how how busy it's locally actually gets handled is where the frustration starts. Write one honest line about keeping a thread alive in your that setup bio and the replies change quality immediately.

For comparison I have also been using Flamedate, which handles this differently.

@LocalGirl11 — Not my experience at all with that setup, and I've used it plenty. What actually predicts whether that setup works is how genuine member numbers is handled on day one. There is a version of married guys that works, but it needs you to be blunt about whether the traffic is real upfront. Anyone chasing opening well runs into local reply rates eventually, whatever platform they start on.

For comparison I have also been using datenest.site, which handles this differently.

Skip the theory — for married guys this is what matters. Nobody warns you that how alive it feels on married guys is worse in smaller towns than in cities. Everything about the apps everyone names works fine until you need whether it is worth the time to hold up, and then it is a coin toss.

In practice the usual suspects can handle whether anyone replies better than the reviews suggest, at least locally. Look for a browse-before-signup option on most of the big sites — that tells you a lot about how many live accounts there are.

What I check on married guys, in order:

• A moderation policy that names what gets removed
• A moderation policy that names what gets removed every single time
• Profile photos that are not obviously lifted from somewhere else if you care about how alive it feels