Safely Dating Multiple People on Match.com?

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Some of my most popular articles are in regards to women who are struggling to get the man that are dating exclusively to take their Match.com profile down. This is driven in part because Match shows the last time someone was active and will also show when they are currently online.

For most of the cases in the article mentioned above, a man and woman have committed to date each other exclusively but then the guy won’t take his profile ...

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The Do’s and Don’ts of Online Dating

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With more and more singles uploading their profiles online, internet dating is rapidly becoming one of the easiest and most successful ways to find love. To help make you’re dating experience positive, it is important to invest a lot of time and thought into the information that you upload on to the web. Here are some tips on the dos and don’ts of online dating.

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When Should I Do a Background Check with Online Dating?

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When I was dating online, I didn’t use background checks. I’m definitely not against them; I just personally never felt the need to use them.

However, I do get questions on this from readers and it’s clear to me that many people wouldn’t be comfortable with the idea of dating online without background checks. Because of ...

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Avoid Late Night Emails: Good Idea or Over-Thinking Things?

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It’s a situation many of us have been in: you decide to check your online dating account when heading to bed and before you know it, it’s 2AM and you’re considering sending an email to someone new. But would the timing of the email send the wrong message? Here’s how one reader puts things:

Just a random thought: Sitting here trying to write a message to a girl on a dating site and I’ve realised it’s gone 3 A.M., which is ...

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10 Ways the Internet Has Changed the Way We Date

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The internet has deeply affected the lives of the majority of the planet since its conception twenty years ago. It is slowly and steadily changing the way we shop, the way we collect information, the way we communicate and generally how we conduct and organise our lives. Even dating has shifted online, with more and more people signing up to online dating sites such as http://www.eharmony.co.uk every day. Here are ten ways the internet ...

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Niche Dating Services and Long-Distance Communication

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From time to time, I have conversations with people who find something odd when they use niche dating services: many of the people who contact them live very far away. Often, these people wonder if this is some type of scam or, if not that, they wonder if they’re doing something that’s attracting this long-distance attention.

For example, a ...

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Signs in Online Dating that He Might be Married

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How can you tell if a man you are talking to at an online dating site is married? A reader recently contacted me about an issue she was having with a guy she was dating. Our conversation reminded me that married men dating online isn’t a problem that all women are considering when looking at dating issues.

This is something I have talked about in the past when I wrote about watching out for online dating scams, but it ...

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The State of Dating 2012

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With Valentine’s Day arriving tomorrow, there will be a lot of statistics and other talk being thrown around the internet in regards to dating. For many of the dating services, this time represents a part of their peak season so a lot of attention is paid to online dating. For me, in the last week alone I’ve been contacted by a half-dozen companies looking to have their infographic posted here.

I actually like infographics but the problem I run into ...

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A Unique Approach to Match.com Instant Messaging

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Some time ago, a friend of mine shared with me an approach to have success using the Match.com Instant Messenger. He didn’t come up with the approach himself but stated that the guy he knew who was doing this had a lot of success with it.

I have never used this approach but it sounded interesting to me and I wanted to share it here. If you find yourself tiring of the traditional email a woman, wait,
email a ...

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More Funny Online Dating Videos from Dentyne

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Several months ago, I had posted the first two videos from Dentyne called The Single Life. I thought the videos were great and captured a lot of the real humor that happens behind-the-screens with online dating.

Well, somehow I lost track of these but a reader contacted me and let me know that the final two videos are up. Well, once again, I love the videos. There’s a lot of humor…and a lot of truth in them. Hope you enjoy them ...

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The Single Life: A Funny Video on Online Dating

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Update: Additional episodes included below

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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