Life, Love and Online Dating

Keep him waiting: Don’t be ready when he shows up to take you out to dinner, it makes you seem desperate. Besides, you want to give him a realistic idea of what it will be like to be married to you. Take control early on and show him that it actually is all [...]

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“If you don’t love yourself, you can’t love anyone else”. That saying meant nothing to me until I experienced it first hand. At a time in my life when I had closed myself off from the world and had unknowingly become desperate, I met someone. Someone who I thought I had fallen [...]

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I’m almost certain that Tiffany held back on her post about the “alleged” ten reasons that you shouldn’t date (Or, as I like to call it, “How the Grinch stole dating”).  I’m sure she can think of way more than ten.   Like, Your date happens to fall on a day that ends with the [...]

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I wouldn’t say that I have had failure when it comes to dating but a lack of success has me ready to take a time out.   I decided to take myself out of the race and focus on myself for a little while.   It’s easy to get caught up in the chase and [...]

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Probably in response to my “Know What You Want” post, Mike aptly pointed out that many people…just don’t.  I definitely can’t disagree with that.  I think that very few of us are clear on exactly what we want all of the time, and it’s certainly subject to change.  For example, when I was in my twenties I [...]

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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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