Maybe it's me but sometimes I feel overwhelmed by choices. Nowhere more so than on the internet, take search engines for example. That's not to mention the proverbial field to play or fish in the ocean when it comes to modern dating. So imagine what happens when you combine the two!

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The other day I tried looking for 'Mr Right' on one internet search engine...and came back with 5,740,000 possibilities. So I added in 'love' but still ended up with 1,500,000 hits. I tried to narrow it down a bit, adding in 'respectable' and 'rich'. (Well, they are necessities after all!) Apparently, there were still one hundred and fifty-nine thousand potential partners. The choice was there: from 'Mr Blair's Messiah Politics' and 'Pride and Prejudice' to 'Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished'.

Now obviously this is not how I'd really go about meeting someone on the internet. (There are plenty of online dating agencies and chatrooms out there, after all.) Nor am I suggesting that internet dating doesn't work, far from it. I know people who have met via the internet and are now happily married. (At least, they are still alive and still married!)Some even now have children.

But this example does, in a comic way, prove my point about the seeming amount of choice available these days. And with so much apparent choice, it is easy to raise one expectations, perhaps even believe we should be able to find the perfect partner, even if experience tells us that's an entity which doesn't really exist!