From time to time I am contacted by people who are uncomfortable posting their photo for public viewing on a dating site. This is almost always related to their job: professors, teachers, or professionals with a strong presence online are examples that I have run into.
PerfectMatch is having a free communication weekend starting today, July 1st and running through Monday July 4th (I’m assuming the free time will end at 11:59PM on Monday as most other free events operate this way).
Note: The PerfectMatch sign-up page didn’t talk much about this free event but when I logged into my account I saw this (the middle ...
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The concept of courtship has been around since the beginning of time. It is built into our genetic make-up, from peacocks strutting about the lawns and parading their plumage, to knights serenading damsels with songs and poetry. Today, courtship manifests itself in the dating world. Going on dates is now an enormous part of the average singleton’s social calendar. There are so many avenues for meeting potential partners, from speed dating to online dating sites, and it’s no ...
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Dentyne (that’s right, the gum people) have created a new video series called The Single Life that is a funny look at online dating. In the first episode, included below, we are shown two singles creating their dating profiles and a lot of humor (and truth) are shown:
A couple of thoughts from my point of view for those who might have missed the tongue in the ...
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I cover my approach writing first emails with online dating in my post First Contact Email Examples. In that article I also give some examples of how I would write some first emails based on several random dating profiles.
In this article, I will review some more first dating emails based on advice I gave to ...
Chemistry.com is having a free communication weekend starting on Friday, June 17th as 12AM and running until Sunday, June 19th at 11:59PM. This means that so far for the year of 2011, Chemistry has had a free event every month excluding one (April was skipped for some reason).
These events are a great time to try out the service because it’s free (obviously) but also because ...
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When I first started this site, one of the things that bothered me most about the online dating advice I had been finding was that everything had the same answer: be more confident.
I found this advice very hard to take and I actually gave up on acting confident. I think occasionally I might have been successful at appearing confident but I was consistently successful as not portraying who I really was…the gains weren’t worth the sacrifice.
At any rate, I discussed ...
Continue Reading →From time to time I see online dating safety advice offering this as a suggestion: bring a friend with you on a first date.
I understand the need to be safe but I really dislike this suggestion. Mostly because I had a woman bring a friend on a first date with me and it really hurt the odds of having another date (there wasn’t one). Admittedly, I found her approach as annoying as her actions…so I guess a full story is ...
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PerfectMatch is currently offering a promotion for 3 days free with their dating service. This provides you with an opportunity to give the service a try to better understand what it has to offer. For more on what this dating service has to offer see my PerfectMatch Review.
While I don’t imagine there is an official “best” ...
Continue Reading →At times online dating can be difficult or at the very least frustrating. Many of us come to a point where we feel like we’re just not getting enough opportunity with the dating service we are using and begin to wonder about trying multiple dating services at once. Is this a good idea?
My opinion is that you should absolutely use multiple dating ...
Continue Reading →I just found out that eHarmony is having a free communication weekend from May 27th to May 30th, 2011. I hadn’t heard anything regarding this free event but when I looked at eHarmony’s twitter page this morning I saw they were promoting it (so perhaps this is the new place to watch for free event information).
It looks like this free weekend will follow the original rules of the eHarmony events ...
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