Life, Love and Online Dating

I was in a fairly crowded convenience store and purchased two lottery scratch off tickets.  The store clerk asked me if I had any preference as to which ones.  Now, to me, it doesn’t matter.  I have to figure that the whole thing is randomly generated by a computer and winning is all left to [...]

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You may recall that I’m not a big fan of online dating.  I did sign up for an online dating service once, about the same time that we started this blog, and with a lot of fortitude and chanting of “give it a chance…give it a chance…” under my breath, I was able to hold out [...]

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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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I may not be as right as I normally am. We have been doing a lot of discussion over online dating profiles and the way that we should or shouldn’t be presenting ourselves. I think I may be guilty of doing a little white lying on my profile as well. Yup, I’m not actually a D cup. Of course, I’m joking…I actually am but size doesn’t matter. But the truth is that I have been painting a less than accurate portrait of myself.

The pictures I post online are carefully selected to portray what I THINK women want but my thinking may be wrong.

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Mike made some good points in his recent post about “white lies” on dating sites.  In fact, many of them relate closely to the issues I raised in my post about the worst idea in online dating history.  I would (for once) agree with him completely if it weren’t for one thing: he’s lying.
No, really.  [...]

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I’ve seen so many sites offering coaching of some sort for your on line dating profile that it’s causing me to be concerned about the profiles I like.   Did I actually just read something that an amazing woman wrote or did I read some propaganda from a professional dating coach?   I’ve seen articles [...]

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Not even for employees.  Mike’s recent analogy between interviewing for a prospective business partner or employee and “interviewing” for a prospective life partner is apt.  Unfortunately, it overlooks one very important point:  interviewing doesn’t work.  You know that I don’t believe interview-style dating works, but now I’m going one step further.  Traditional interviewing doesn’t work [...]

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If I wanted to expand my construction business by taking on a partner who wanted to do the same type of work and had a similar business philosophy, the most efficient way to do that would be to interview candidates.  The best way to find candidates would be to place an ad in the paper or possibly online.
Of [...]

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Advice about constructing an “effective” online dating profile abounds on the Internet, and the concept leaves me scratching my head just a bit.  So does the pervasive idea that “everyone” posts only his or her best pictures.  I strongly suspect that I’m in the minority on this one, but I can’t see the upside in [...]

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Reportedly,  SugarRomance.org has a great new offering in the online dating arena–the personal marketing consultant to help pitch you to other members online moderator to help “keep it real”.  It’s a fascinating concept, really, having a stranger step in and tell you how best to present yourself (or even make the presentation on your behalf) [...]

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