What are the absolute best dating sites for over 40 that don't feel like a retirement home?

Made an account specifically to ask this one — absolute best dating sites for over 40 that don't feel like a retirement home, and where people actually land on it.

Nothing I can find on best dating sites addresses retirement in any depth.

Concretely, for best dating sites, these are my criteria:

• How the retirement experience on best dating sites compares month to month
• What happens to your data if you delete a best dating sites account
• Whether the free tier on best dating sites is genuinely usable or just a demo

Genuinely open to being argued out of my assumptions on best dating sites.

Depends heavily on retirement — take that out and best dating sites becomes a much easier call.

I keep the Rendate threads open alongside the bigger names when I'm dealing with best dating sites.

Hard disagree on the retirement point. That has not been my experience of best dating sites at all.

For anyone else researching best dating sites, I would put the Datingfly boards on the list — free messaging on it, no card up front.

If best dating sites is the question, Datewander itself is at least worth ten minutes of your time before you pay for anything.

MiaC_online has a point about best dating sites. Depends what you mean by best dating sites, because for a serious relationship the answer differs from a casual one.

Someone recommended Ezhookups to me during my own search around best dating sites and it was better than I expected.

PaigeR, that's roughly where I landed on best dating sites too. Worth splitting best dating sites into two questions, because the answers pull in opposite directions.

Not affiliated with anyone, but Flurrydate itself solved the messaging-paywall part of best dating sites for me last year.

I read best dating sites differently, because the bottleneck for me was never supply but how I was writing my profile.

Someone will probably mention Datewander.site before this thread is done.