Advice About Married Women Using Personal Ads

How to Avoid People Who Are Married in Personal Ads

Married people do lie and use the personal ads. The anonymity of placing and answering personal ads is probably the biggest attraction for married people. It may have happened to me but I don't think so. If it did, I wasn't aware when it happened.

I wish that there was some advice that I could give you that would guarantee that you could avoid married people or those in committed in relationships. There just isn't any that I know of. If you have a theory or technique that has helped you spot married people in the past in other situations, use it.

Some married people will place a personal ad and admit in the ad that they are married and out for a few "thrills." Others plead that they just need some "understanding." Some ask to meet someone that is married. Consider the following ads:

WANTED: MARRIED WOMAN FOR discrete, romantic relationship. DWM, 29...been described as gorgeous.

"GOLF" Tall, dark, handsome married man, average golfer, seeks lady golfer to burn up the links.

Let your conscience (and common sense) be your guide if you choose to respond. I suspect that the golfer has a lot of trouble with his "putter" at home. I have seen very few ads by women that admitted that they were married. I do not have any idea if that is because married women are less likely to run ads or do not admit they are married in them.

Some publications that run personal ads have a section for married people with particular "hobbies." If you are married and you want to run an ad, I really think that you should say that you are married and put your ads in one of those sections if is available. I don't have any advice for those of you that are married and want to answer ads. This article is an excerpt from our book, "Effective Personal Ads - How to Write Personal Ads or Respond to Personal Ads."