When Dates Go Bad: The Withdrawn Dater

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I was on a date once and for the first fifteen minutes things were going fine. Mid-date, though, something changed and I could actually feel the woman across from me withdrawing from our conversations. Soon, every question I asked was met with a single word answer and she was making no attempts to start any conversations. After several failed attempts at light conversation I saw things were going bad fast so I came right out and asked her what happened ...

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18
DEC
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First Email Length: Shorter is Better

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In my online dating guide, I discussed how first contact should be made. To quickly sum it up: keep the email brief with some type of proof you read the profile.

I’ve covered those points several times in the past so why bring them up again? Primarily because I’ve always been providing second-hand information (that is, bad experiences I have heard about from the women I dated). Today, however, I found a blog post that speaks directly to the ...

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12
DEC
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Crass Men Hurt Everyone in Online Dating

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crass /kras/ – without refinement, delicacy, or sensitivity; gross; obtuse; stupid

I read an article today that got me worked up regarding what some men see as reasonable communication with women. The author, Barbara/Layla, describes a bad online date which isn’t really the problem (we all have those). The problem begins when the man emailed her after the date to let her know he was not interested, in as rude a fashion as his small brain could devise. I’m not ...

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8
DEC
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Funny Dating Profiles

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First a warning: this article does not tell you how to create a funny dating profile. It explains why trying too hard to create a funny profile is a bad idea. There are many things that should be a part of your profile (which I cover in my online dating guide) but being funny, especially artificially so, is not one of them. I know this isn’t what most men want to hear, trust me. I ...

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3
DEC
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Improve Profile Views with your Heading

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We all have had to plug in some title on our dating profiles and everyone knows it is more difficult than it looks. I never held a bland profile heading against someone because I went through the same impossible task of summing myself up in one sentence. While I don’t see the profile heading as making or breaking a profile, it can do wonders to direct others to or away from your profile.

This directing people to or from your profile ...

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30
NOV
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The View from the Other Side

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Near the end of my online dating, I discovered that sharing my dating experiences with my dates really opened the discussion up. Not only that, these candid conversations also opened my eyes to the absolute hassle women have to go through and gave me a glimpse of how they felt about online dating in general. Eventually, I found I was even enjoying dates where there was no “spark” because we became fast friends sharing our online dating experiences. Since my ...

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27
NOV
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Online Dating and MySpace, Take Two

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Today, I found an interesting article about online dating and MySpace. As I have mentioned, I think MySpace is not the best place to try and begin a serious relationship. However, the article does make a few points I had not thought of:

  • The community of MySpace or Facebook creates a little more security in regards to who you are meeting.
  • Specialized groups make finding someone looking to date easier

I think the second point changes my mind slightly on the usefulness ...

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21
NOV
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Great Source for Online Dating Advice

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Since I started this site a few months ago, I’ve been actively looking for great resources that I could share here. Unfortunately, almost everything I have found online has fallen into one of three categories:

  • Overly general advice that feels extremely polished and impersonal. For example, the type of advice I would expect to see in a Maxim magazine (but less humorous). I find it hard to put much confidence into something that reads as if a team of writers tried ...
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17
NOV
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Using Online Dating Advice Intelligently

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In my last post, I talked briefly about background checks as well as the Safer Online Dating Alliance (SODA). As I mentioned there, I feel that the rules SODA lays out for safer dating are excellent. However, I would like to take a few moments to discuss just a few of the rules in an effort to encourage everyone to be open to the new advice without following it blindly.

8. Spend time getting to know someone online before ...

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16
NOV
1

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Ideas for Safer Online Dating

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A reader contacted me this week with some thoughts on my recent article regarding risks with online dating:

Your post on October 29th titled the Risk of Trusting was a great reminder of how important it is to be cautious. I appreciated your willingness to point out that there is plenty of room for failure and danger in online dating.

I thought you might be interested in a few other resources that people can use to ensure their own safety. My ...

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14
NOV
2

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Online Dating Services with a Different Approach

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Recently I was reading a TechCrunch article about the online dating services that are taking a different approach. There were two dating sites listed in the article that I was familiar with: Engage.com and GreatBoyFriends.com.

I had read about Engage.com a few weeks ago and was interested by the idea. The service provides what might be called traditional online dating with additional twists to make the site more of a community. In particular, people can use the site for ...

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9
NOV
0

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Online Dating and MySpace

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Are people really having success finding love with MySpace? I’m not talking about a purely physical relationships. Based photos I’ve seen, the site is obviously a self-advertising platform for some people. What I am talking about is actual success finding good relationships. I find myself asking this because many sites I have found in my search for good dating articles seem to suggest MySpace as a valid online dating service contender.

This reminds me of the McDonald’s from high school. All ...

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4
NOV
0

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