Single Parent Love Life
Single Parent Love Life is one of the slickest ventures into the market for single parent online dating you’ve ever seen. It almost makes being a single parenting seem as glamorous as it is hard work. However, I wouldn’t fault its approach even if it might seem glossy and superficial at first blush. I appreciate any dating site, regardless of its market, that promotes feeling good since no matter what your situation is with dating, online or otherwise, it is best with a positive attitude.
SingleParentLoveLife.com has substance as well a great look. For example, its prewritten descriptions of what you’re looking for are well thought out. You can say that you prefer to concentrate first on meeting someone for yourself before addressing parental issues. You can state you’re looking to create a blended family. You can be blunt about screening any prospective partner before introducing the family. It is also okay to be a single without children on this site, too, but the main focus here is clearly single parents.
“…it’s well designed, appealing and very competitively priced.”
You can skip many of the usual steps in signing up. You will need to provide a decent free-form essay describing yourself and your ideal potential date. You can upload a photo, of course. Any newsletter or other site notices can be deselected if you don’t want to receive offsite mail and you can set the frequency of receiving info about folks who have sent you a smile or added you to their hot list, too.
Making contact on SingleParentLoveLife is straightforward. Other than sending free smiles or adding to your hot list, you’ll need to pay for emails or instant messaging. Unlike some sites, the need to upgrade runs both ways. Both the sender and the recipient need to be premium subscribers to send or receive messages. In its defense for applying this restriction, its monthly fee is considerably less than many other sites. It’s not such a big commitment at currently $10 a month.
The advanced search options are all available even before upgrading. You have results sorted to show only profiles of members that have logged in during the last week. You can also look only for those subscribers that have posted a picture with their descriptions. There is a local search option based on your postal or zip code. Finally, perhaps the most radical for a free access search engine, there are keyword searches offered without paying for an upgrade.
The biggest downside to this site is that it doesn’t have a large database of members that other sites have. This is to be expected from a site that only launched in November of 2006. However, with such a great portal for single parents, we expect this dating site will begin to gain a large and loyal following in the near future.
Finally, any special community based web personals site wouldn’t be complete without a section of articles and subscriber-submitted stories. Single Parent Love Life also includes a special SPLL TV and a SPLL Radio feature for great streaming content tailored to learning to love again as a single parent.
Overall, it’s well designed, appealing and very competitively priced. It’s certainly worth a look if you’re a single parent.