I totally agree House, I just feel like I'm in limbo right now in my life.
I actually had a girl not long before I got on this site (hair loss wasn't quite so bad then, admittedly), so it is possible - even though she had marked personality defects.
I could probably even get one now...although if I become a mid-20s NW5 in a couple of years it will be tougher for me.
In the short term, my difficulty is that I'm not going to be in a fixed place for long. I'm likely to be travelling around for the next 10 months or so (with breaks, of course), so getting on a dating site just seems impractical for me. I'd meet up with a chick and the next thing I know I'm in Beijing for 3 months.
And in fairness, I do make myself out to be a bigger loser on this site than I actually am. If you saw my resume you'd probably think I had a lot going for me. I'm not too worried in terms of achieving things life-wise.
But hair loss is getting in the way, not because it's beaten me, but precisely because it hasn't.
If it was like losing a limb in an accident, I'd grieve, adjust, and move on. But hair loss isn't like that, at least not for me. There's always something else I can throw at it, something else to try, some new hope of defeating the thing.
I've been playing that game for a long time now, and I'm fed up of it. It's pretty much why I've got to the 'wig it or lose it' stage in my hair loss battle. I see young guys with wigs who manage it well, and I want to find out if I could be one of them. Life is short, and if I could pull this off and look (and feel) good about it, it'd be a solution for me. If not, I will have to shave and adjust. Either way, I want to get out of this hair loss purgatory I'm in...I'm just not there yet.