There are many areas of things you should avoid in your dating profile. One thing I really try to push people to do is to stay positive, but unfortunately many of us guys can wander into some negativity when we write our profile. And, in addition to staying positive, we want to be interesting! Today I want to talk about a few common approaches that guys take with their profiles and why you should avoid them.
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Continue Reading →This weekend, from August 15th to the 18th, eHarmony users can communicate with their matches absolutely free. The free communication weekend starts at the beginning of the day on the 15th and goes until the end of the day on the 18th. While it is most often referred to as a “Free Weekend”, it’s actually four full days to try the service.
You can signup to try the free event here. Note that this event is for those in ...
Continue Reading →eHarmony is having a free communication weekend for those living in Australia beginning this Friday, August 1st, and running until the end of the day on Tuesday, August 5th. While I’ve talked quite a bit about eHarmony’s free weekends in the US and Canada, this is the first time I’m hearing about a free event in Australia (although I strongly suspect there have been many before this).
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Are you headed into a long weekend but single and not sure what to do? Do you not have any plans? If you’re looking for something new to try, eHarmony might be worth looking into…and not just for this long weekend either.
If you’re not familiar with them, eHarmony is an online dating service that provides a unique experience to dating online in that they match you based on your personality. This is great in one sense because ...
Continue Reading →If you’ve dated online for any amount of time you’ve probably experienced this situation: you find a nearly perfect profile and you’re so excited to contact the person and then notice that they have a requirement that you don’t meet. Do you contact or not?
Generally, I feel like those doing the contacting (often men) need to try to observe the requirements of those they are contacting. In my article on Issues with Older Men Contacting Younger Women, I tackled ...
Continue Reading →If you are asking this question, congratulations! I hope you’ve found what will be a wonderful relationship.
That said, you may be at a point so early in this new relationship that you aren’t sure what you should do about your profile. Should you take it down? Or is it better to delete your profile? While not an area where a lot of people struggle, I have seen some misconceptions about how you should handle this so I wanted to speak ...
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This last week there was a lot of attention given to a man who posed as a woman on a free online dating site because he thought it would be easy…and he gave up two hours later. You can check out his thoughts on the experience over at reddit.
The man who tried this walked away with the thought that online dating is harder for women. Some of the commentary I’m reading is taking the direction ...
Continue Reading →eHarmony is having another free communication weekend, this time running from January 16th to January 19th, 2014. As has been the case frequently in recent months, this free communication “weekend” at eHarmony is actually more than a weekend with four days being provided for free.
If you’re not familiar with the free weekends at eHarmony, ...
Continue Reading →In online dating, you’ll sometimes be in an email conversation with a new person and things seem to be going great. Often there seems to be a strong connection and the conversation couldn’t flow better. Then, unexpectedly the person you are emailing stops responding. You might then think, “What did I do wrong? Why aren’t they emailing me anymore?”
This topic, where someone stops responding to your emails, is one that I’ve covered here before. However, it’s one of the areas ...
Continue Reading →The New Year is a very popular time for people to decide to address being single. There will be many people making New Year’s resolutions to find a relationship this year and there will be a spike in the people using online dating services because of that.
Maybe you fall into this category of people deciding to try online dating, either for the first time or once again. I would encourage you to do so if you’re thinking about it, but ...
Continue Reading →eHarmony is having a free communication event starting today, December 26th, and running until the end of January 1st, 2014. This is a full seven days to try their service and see if it’s a good fit for you.
As you may know, the end of December and the beginning of January sees a huge increase in the number of people using online dating services. Between new resolutions to find that “special someone” and perhaps the reminder of being alone ...
Continue Reading →As a new-ish dad (my son is now 15 months old) I can say that having kids is absolutely wonderful. Exhausting but wonderful. And if you’re like me, you may find your kids becoming your go-to topic for conversations. Which is okay in most cases (as long as we’re not driving people crazy).
However, I’ve helped with some dating profiles recently and I’ve seen people put a bit too much emphasis on being dad or mom and not so much ...
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