Life, Love and Online Dating

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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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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Brat.
I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with meeting for coffee, and you know it. I’m talking about the significant number of men (maybe women do this, too–I never see their profiles, so I don’t know) who explicitly announce that they want to meet for coffee so as not to waste their time on someone [...]

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