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I had previously been a member of Equally Yoked (EY) Sacramento branch office from April 2001 to sometime in the autumn of 2005. The Sacramento branch office was run by an elderly Christian couple who truly cared about the needs of the new and existing members. Here is my testimony of what I thought of EY.

I first learned about EY when someone from a Sacramento EY branch office found one of my online personals and sent me an email to make an appointment to come and check them out. At that time, I was desperate for new friends after moving to live closer to the rest of the family. I didn't have much luck with the Internet and local churches' singles groups. I made an appointment to come in, learned about what they had to offer, and made a decision to join them. I liked what EY offered so much that after I paid $1,500 for a two-year membership, I made a short trip to the Great Expectations (GE) branch office and cancelled my membership with them (paid close to $3,000 to join).

Back then, EY not only had a dating service, but also interest and activity-based club events, weekly classes on relationships and dating, and pre-marital counseling. When I went to to my first EY event (Movie & Dessert Club), I met many very caring Christian singles who were anxious to know more about me. At the second Movie & Dessert club event, a woman I previously met at the first Movie & Dessert event introduced me to one of her friends. Her friend flirted with me in such a way that I laughed really hard. I couldn't remember when I last had a good laugh. I felt that God really wanted me to be here because He would use other single Christians to heal me inside and help me be more outgoing. I couldn't get enough of the weekly classes because I was learning so much about dating mistakes and relationships. Safe People and Boundaries were especially relavent in helping me recognize unhealthy behavior patterns and learning what to do about them.

Two years later, the Sacramento branch office changed the policy and made the two year membership become an infinate member until I found the right woman and get married. They only charged me $20 a month for online access to the profiles and club event dues.

In the autumn of 2005, the Sacramento EY office decided to end the affiliation with the central EY office and start an all new Christian singles social network - Singles You Should Know (SYSK). The EY head office stated they were becoming strictly a Christian dating service and wanted all branch offices to cease on all classes and activity events. The Sacramento branch office wanted to keep everything that made EY great.

After the change of ownership, the new manager struggled to keep the new business going. Sadly, the new business went bankrupt and closed up forever two years ago. When I first joined EY, there were over 150 branch offices. At the close of 2005, there were less than 20 branch offices still open. The reason for so many offices closing was due to the fact that the EY main office was charging each branch office a royalty fee to stay open - more like blackmail or extortion to me.

At the time I joined EY, they only allowed people who were truly single and were devout Christians - no hypocrytes or deceptive people were allowed. You had to present physical proof that you were completely divorced. You also had to provide spiritual references such as the pastor from your church who would verify your Christian character. From reading here the other people's reviews on EY, it appears that EY no longer checks for valid proof of a divorce. All they care about these days is the money - a big shocking contrast to how they actually wanted to fulfil your spiritual, mental, and emotional needs as a Christian single waiting for the right person to come. I can safely say that EY is no longer reliable and should not be trusted until they clean up their act. My advice is to stay away from EY and other dating services which rob you of you hard-earned money and fail to do thourough background checks.