My profile says I like midnight strolls on the beach and hikes through the woods which are both great places to hide a body. ?

I actually do and have used it as subtle way to test dates. I'll walk for an hour and not blink, when I find a guy who can keep up, I'm always pleased.

Ever skimmed a dating profile and seen one or more of these lines?

‘I love to travel’

‘I’m laid back, easy-going, and love to have a good time’

‘I’m looking for someone honest, caring and kind’

‘I don’t really know what to write on one of these things’

‘My family is really important to me’

It can get pretty boring reading the same clichés over and over, and after a while it becomes hard to distinguish one profile from another.

20 online dating cliches- and what they mean:

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What's even funnier is that I live in Arizona, and I see that listed all the time, along with "cozying up by the fireplace". Uh.....okay. I do have to say Az. does have lots of beach, just no water!

I missed that code completely. I like air conditioning and food that requires a fork. Sometimes I get crazy and open a window and eat tacos.

I prefer long walks off short piers.

I think they mean when you are vacationing at a resort in the Caribbean because there isn't much else to do unless you want to drink and dance with other tourists or eat until you float like a whale...yeah, both are not exactly what real people do for romance...it is code for not much going on or else a copy and paste of standard "romantic" profiles...I would be skeptical...

Mine as gone from "walks" to "naps"

I noticed that too. It seems to be a line used by those with limited imagination , or an idea borrowed from movies !
I also noticed that many of those authors appeared as if they don't take long walks anywhere ...

In my mind it comes from here to eternity...

I’ve not done dating sites, until now? It sounds so ..canned, to me. Love/d the beach, I’d walk, most often alone… If the waves are crashing, it’s actually difficult to have a conversation.

Sounds like a blissfulness some are hoping to achieve, or entrapment by thought. So how bout, ‘I love the beach, and am (damn) tired of walking it alone.’

A lot of dating sites write profiles for people who are too lazy or not articulate enough to write one themselves. They take the most universally “liked” things and turn them into your qualities. Walks on the beach (or in the park), a good sense of humour “I laugh at myself all the time”, “long talks about anything and everything”. (Hahahaha, I just put that in there cause it’s in my profile). But, in fairness, if you said that you like to dance naked on the coffee table, it would probably significantly lower your responses.

You don't know the code??? Hmmm....wanna take a walk on the beach?

I love the ocean but I despise sitting on the beach. I take long walks but not for romance and soaking it in, but because I like looking for shells and various bits of ocean flotsam and jetsam and trying to identify it, and spotting birds, schooling fish or anything else to be seen in the water from shore. So, I don't like boring beaches (which is primarily what we have on the Atlantic side of Florida as there are too many tourists and too little beachcombing items of interest). I like being IN the ocean, and ON the ocean, but sitting for hours and looking at the ocean, not so much. Hiking for me is pretty much the same thing. I like doing it but more to get me and my fly rod from one fishing site to another, or because I am rock hounding or looking for the wildlife. However, I DO see couples enjoying walks on the beach when I go to the beach. I'm sure most of the time it's cliche AF, but not always.

I actually live on the beach, but it's rare that I'll take a long walk on it.
Mostly I like to just sit there and absorb the nature.
The sound of the waves, The sounds of seagulls,just looking out at the horizon, things like that.
The best though is that I live on the west coast, so we get some amazing sunsets.

I just posted, but something else came to me just after I submitted it. Back when I was looking at singles ads, women would always say they liked hiking. At the time, I was into backpacking and did a lot of hiking, so it's one of the things I was looking for.
A lot of the women I eventually met didn't care anything about hiking even though they put it there like it was a huge part of their lives. Hiking to them was walking from the car to the grocery store, and then they would park as close as possible.

I do like long walks on the beach. I used to live near the ocean and I walked on the beach often. I did that once with my last boyfriend. I think that people pretend. Unlike the guy who just posted below me, I do not recommend sex on the beach. Would you to sandpaper your privates?

I dislike long walks.

I dislike the beach.

I am a failure at romance lmao

It's actually so friggin' hard to walk along a beach. Your feet sink into the sand, you have to side-step shells and trash...

I don't know why so many people would give the same answer. Perhaps long walks on the beach are symbolic of a good relationship. I know I'm tired of taking all my walks alone.

I'm not a fan of the beach. A hike in the mountains, a kayak trip, or a quiet restaurant with a good beer selection are more to my tastes.

On the other hand, with the right companion I can have a pleasant time almost anywhere.

I ignore the beach walkers. I focus on the ones who admit they like to drink wine. Everything else falls into place after that. Having said that, I like walking the beach at night when you can induce bioluminesence by stomping on the sand.

Beaches are nice. Walks on the beach are nice, I suppose, but I’d rather sit with my feet in the surf and drink a cold beer.

You need a more isolated beach. They are out there.

Waking on a tourist beach would be very unappealing

No one wants to admit that their hobbies are eating carryout, watching TV/Netflix, and browsing websites. There are some things that people think are easy to claim as hobbies, like reading, walking/hiking, music, etc.

My solution, as sometime who actually has hobbies like that, is to get specific. I'm going to back up reading by mentioning an interesting book I've recently read or what I'm working on now. I'm going to post photos of me out hiking. I'm going to tell you what musical instruments I play and what some of my favorite musicians are.

I think that's the solution to a boring dating profile: make it specific.