Life, Love and Online Dating

Recently, Mike wrote about Lori Gottleib’s Marry Him and the theory that young women are so afraid of missing out on “the perfect man” that they reject a lot of men for very petty reasons (which they’ll soon live to regret).  I’ve written about my take on Gottleib’s book before, but as I read Mike’s [...]

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In the book  Marry Him, Lori Gottlieb outlines her theory on why women in their 20’s and 30’s think they’re too good for most men.  Actually, her claim is that many women feel that there’s something wrong with the men they date that makes them not good enough to marry.  Women tend to be too picky [...]

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I was recently forwarded a question regarding proper etiquette for calling someone whom you met on an online dating site. It seems the woman who asked the question was wondering why the men she meets online expect her to call them. The answer is simple. In fact, there was an entire book [...]

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With Halloween approaching, I’m hearing people talk about what they are going to be for this occasion. I can’t help but to draw an analogy about how some people act on a date. On the radio today, I even heard Paul McKenna promoting his new book Instant Confidence. He was giving advice [...]

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I don’t mean that you should know what you want in a partner or in a relationship; I definitely don’t advocate checklist-style mate-shopping.  No, the idea that it’s important to know what you’re after–something that should have been a no-brainer but that I hadn’t consciously considered before–came to me while I was reading Lori Gottleib’s [...]

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