Will - not so much a question of impressing the "interview panel", more a question of knowing as soon as we met that he was indeed what I was looking for and more! I don't want to make it sound as if there were right and wrong answers or behaviours, but with internet dating you can easily formulate an entirely wrong image of people if you don't meet them for real. Preferably sooner rather than later, as the longer you chat on line the more you create an image of who they are.
Mrrzy - you know this, of course, but if you're meeting people who can't deal with you as a whole person (including, of course, your sexual nature) then clearly you haven't met the person yet who is right for you. I don't know if it's a question of Americans or not-Americans .. not quite sure it's possible to generalise about millions of people ..but I do know that it took me a while to find the right person for me, and I almost gave up. Oddly, in my case, I remember saying to my close friend that I WAS giving up and would have to compromise - and then the man who is now my husband turned up within a few days. That whole thing of "you'll find it when you're least expecting it" turned out to be true, after all.