Originally Posted by x1v16
The moderators at this site seem to dislike the idea of RYL being used as a dating site.
Yes we do indeed.
RYL is a predominantly a place to come for recovery, yes friends are made here and that's bound to become something more for some people, and that is wonderful. We have quite a few RYL couples and have had some marriages and even an RYL baby or two, all of that is fine if its circumstantial.
What we do not want is for RYL to become a place where dating is initiated. Imagine you were feeling desperate and didn't know what to do and then you found RYL and you felt it was finally the one place you felt you could talk...and then you saw they also did dating. To you that might not be a problem but it would make a lot of people uneasy.
Theres nothing wrong with online dating, it just has no place on a self harm recovery site, the atmosphere is wrong and it creates an image that's just not appropriate for this type of site.
/lecture.