Life, Love and Online Dating

Many of the online dating sites offer incentives to get people to use their services. Just by logging in you can earn points (or coins). If you log in every day you’ll get placed higher in the search results. And some sites even allow you to pay more to get noticed. [...]

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Last night I was kicking it old school and watching an 80’s classic Some Kind of Wonderful.
In this film, Keith Nelson played by Eric Stoltz has a crush on Amanda Jones played by Lea Thompson. He manages to get her to go out with him. On their first date, he takes her [...]

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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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It seems to be, what I like to call “Swooning season”.   That’s not the time of year where people hunt for “swoons”.   It’s a time when single people look to step up their game, date more (or simply date).   There’s more flirting, approaching and dating going on.    I’ve noticed that I [...]

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So, you find yourself attracted to someone and you want to make you feelings known.  But how do you do that without being insulting?  I’m not talking about just a sexual attraction.  I mean, for whatever reason, you find yourself drawn to someone.  It could be from something they said, the way they smile or [...]

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I mentioned in an earlier post that, despite my misgivings, I’d registered for an online dating service last month.  I was a bit dismayed by many of the messages I received, but there was one in particular that struck me immediately and has become a sort of shorthand for all of the inappropriate comments strange [...]

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