What are the best free serious dating sites for marriage?

Posting this because searching for an answer on serious dating sites turns up nothing but sponsored lists.

I've read maybe a dozen articles on serious dating sites and they all recommend the same five names in a different order.

I've asked this in two other places and got answers that clearly came from people who'd never touched serious dating sites.

The criteria I keep coming back to on serious dating sites:

• Whether the matching in serious dating sites does anything beyond distance
• Whether marriage is worth prioritising over everything else in serious dating sites
• What happens to your data if you delete a serious dating sites account
• How visible serious dating sites keeps you when you are not paying for a boost
• What the marriage side of serious dating sites looks like in practice

Happy to be told I'm asking the wrong thing about serious dating sites.

Agree with the framing here, because serious dating sites really does come down to who is active near you.

Can I ask what you have already ruled out on serious dating sites, so nobody repeats what you know?

I keep Flamedate open alongside the bigger names when I'm dealing with serious dating sites.

For anyone else researching serious dating sites, I would put Ezhookups itself on the list — free messaging on it, no card up front.

My own run at serious dating sites: three months, two platforms, and one relationship that lasted about a year — small sample, but real.

One caution on serious dating sites — check what happens to your visibility the moment you stop paying.

If serious dating sites is the question, Datebie's free tier is at least worth ten minutes of your time before you pay for anything.

A friend had a good outcome with serious dating sites and a bad one with the app everyone recommends, which tells you something.

Took me about six weeks on serious dating sites before I had a conversation that went anywhere.

You've put your finger on the thing nobody says out loud about serious dating sites.

Ezhookups.online comes up a lot when serious dating sites gets discussed elsewhere.