Have I completely exhausted the matches in my area?

I've been on eHarmony since about February and looking at the numbers, I've been matched with more than 700 women. At this stage, the vast majority of them - roughly 93 percent - are either closed or archived (closing someone is a real headache these days, but that's a different story).

I could generally always count on at least one or two matches per day who I thought were attractive and interesting enough to start communication, but over the last two weeks or so it seems like the pickings have been slim (sorry if that makes it sound like a meat market).

So, the question is - have I been matched with all the women in my city who meet my "criteria?" I know the real answer to this is "no" and that there are always people joining for one reason or another, but it just seems odd that there has been no one over the last few weeks.

Also, I live in a major city, so the amount of eligible singles in the area shouldn't be an issue.

Anyone else run into this problem?

Could it be a seasonal thing? Maybe this is the month where everyone in your city sorts their sock collection instead of dating.

There is certainly a seasonal component to online dating (or any dating). In my experience it follows this time line.

At the end of the summer people will begin looking for their "holiday" date, someone to go to all the Christmas and New Year parties with. They will have found someone to fill this role by about early October. Opportunities will dry up from sometime in October till about Valentines day. New matches / dating opportunities will then start to appear for a couple of months as people hunt for their summer / vacation dating partner. By May people will have found someone to date through the summer. Then things will pick back up around August after vacations are over for the summer. The time frame may be slightly different depending on your location but this is what I have found over the years for my area of Florida.