Thank you for your message, buy I really do not have much hope anymore. I'm 63 years old now.
I just spend about 10 days of a gay dating site sending messages to about 400 different guys and got back about 6 answers of those interested. I spend a LOT of time writing messages to each and more.
I talked and chat with them each a fair amount and they were interesting in meeting so we sent up days and times to meet. One guy even texted me that he would come down and meet in in about 2 hours.
Not one of them showed up. Not only that but they have all ghosted me; they never called to tell me they were not coming. None of them have answered my replied about why they did not come and about possibility meeting again.
One of these was with a "guy" who I had exchanged emails and had Skyped a good dead with – until I realized 1/2 through it was all a hoax. A friend told me this was called "catfishing".
This is how my attempts to meet and date a guy constantly goes. This has happened over and over again for DECADES now. I cannot tell you the lengths I have gone to meet a guy to date. And it is almost always the same. They say they are interesting, we plan to meet, they never show up.
A few times I have meet a guy, well, some of them end it even before we have much of a chance to talk.
In some ways I think the worse one for me was about 10 years ago. I was suppose to meet a guy for coffee. I waited over an hour after he was suppose to show before I left. I had called him several times to see if he was coming or not, but he never answered. He never called me to tell me why he did come.
I tired to call a few times in the following days to see what happened but only ever got voice mail. Finally, I asked a friend if I could use his phone to call and he said okay. So I called this guy (from a different number) and he picked up at once. I asked he why he never showed up and he said "I felt like doing something else." Then he hung up.
Nowadays, if a guy doesn't show up -- which as I said is always -- I make one or two efforts to find out why and if they still might want to meet, but that is all. Even as I send those messages, I know no one is going to reply.
I go through this like every 6-8 months. I just completely burn out on trying to meet anyone and then months and months later I try again -- and they same shit happens. No one shows up then I am ghosted.
I do understand you are trying to help me feel positive that I will meet someone. But I stopped lying to myself about that long ago.
I make the effort because I REALLY want to find a partner. But I do not fool myself to think that I will.
. . .
Hey…I don't really have much dating experience in general, so I definitely don't expect to give you any groundbreaking advice, but if there's one thing I've learnt that is so important, at least in my opinion, it's to NEVER LOSE HOPE!!
I don't think there's much else I can say atm 
