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Catholic Match
If you want to use this as a dating site, my advice is to pay the **minimum** membership period, use it heavily and then bail. Being a long time user means that you are subject to running afoul of the monitors or admins or whatever they are called. They seem to think nothing of suspending or cancelling your service for trivial and arbitrary-judged "violations" of their TOS. They seem to think that they are running a grade school and that they customers are children. Don't trust them with too much of your money.
Catholic Match
Catholicmatch.com was a major disappointment to me. This site has extremely restrictive policies which in my opinion are very deceptive. You can only send and receive messages if you pay to get a full account. If you sign up for a free account, you can't send messages or reply to messages, so although you have a profile on there, for all essential purposes it's meaningless to full members because you can't be contacted.
So you pay to sign up because you see lots of profiles in their area, thinking they are people you can contact. Unfortunately, once they have your money, you realize they are just free accounts and there is no way to contact them, meaning there are actually far fewer people who can be contacted than you'd originally thought. That just seems wrong to me.
To make matters worse, I wanted to be considerate and let people know that because I signed up for a free account, I couldn't be contacted, but the site specifically says you aren't allowed to include that info in your profile! That means they know that they are tricking people and want to perpetuate it!
Then I decided that to be fair to other people, I'd just delete my profile, but there is no way to do that on the site! They really want to perpetuate this deception any way they can. Even if it's legal, I think it's unethical.
At least in my area, it also seems like most of the people on there aren't even that serious about their faith, disagreeing with lots of church teachings. Seriously, why bother joining a Catholic dating site if you're not that into your faith?
At the end of the day you'd be better off just using a free dating site like okcupid.com, plentyoffish.com or even Craigslist.org, just being sure to mention that you're looking for other serious Catholics.
Catholic Match
It cost $75 for the first 6 months to join. It is only free to sign up, but to respond and send messages you have to pay. I joined, paid, and was very dissatisfied, partly because there were not a lot of members in my area, and I realize that is not CMs fault. The forum area, which is stressed as a way to meet people, is extremely clique-ish, and as a new person it was hard to join in on thread topics. There is a high female to male ratio, and most of the guys I was matched with were older gentlemen, and that’s Ok, but I had a 58-year-old man tell me he only wanted a virgin. I found out, in the forums, some of the people are married and/or in relationship, but still hang around to post in the forums, and I thought that was weird. Forum topics are good, ranging from religion to more personal things. Air in the forums is extremely conservative, and other opinions are not welcome. So if you didn’t vote for McCain, you’re in for a real treat. I’m not planning to renew my membership.