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You’ve been talking with a match online and the time has come: it’s time for the first date. Being prepared can help tremendously with the first date jitters. You can read Brad’s guide to online dating to help with some develop first date questions if you get stuck and don’t know what to say. However, it’s also good to think about your own approach as a list of questions is a start, but not necessarily the end of the ...
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Music is such a big part of our lives and is being used more and more in online dating.
I love music and love the fact that one can now use music on their profile on some apps and sites. It opens up a whole new world of communicating. Thinking about the earlier days of dating, people would often go to the club and dance. Music was right there with us every step of the way.
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When I first read a profile that asked the guys to please talk to as if they were speaking with their Mom or sister, I thought it can’t be that bad. But then I kept coming across more and more profiles with the same statement along with statements like:
At first, I thought this was just a few jaded women, but I ...
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I’ve tried Brad’s method of contacting as many people as possible to improve my odds of getting a date. In my opinion, it’s not the best approach for me. I have a hard time going out with someone just to have a date. Having quality over quantity seems a better road to go down. Over the last two weeks, I have in a sense increased my odds by joining another free dating site called Plenty of Fish.
Although I have written ...
Continue Reading →To create a relationship that may blossom into long lasting partnership, boundaries must be identified and reinforced from the very beginning. As soon as you connect with someone online and progress towards meeting and officially dating, remain aware of personal boundaries.
A boundary is really an agreement with yourself or your partner about types of behavior ...
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Do you consider yourself too shy to date? There was a time in my life where I felt that way. Either I didn’t go on any dates (sometimes for years) or, when I tried, I ended up feeling more stress than enjoyment. However, I knew I was unhappy being single. Fortunately, I found a method to dating that works…even for someone who considered himself “too shy” to approach women or to go on a date without looking stressed out.
Maybe you’re ...
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In my last article, I wrote about a pattern I see in giving dating advice: one where a person assumes everyone they meet is doing something wrong where in reality they are the one creating the situation.
In that article, I ended by recommending that we all look to ourselves and ask if anything we’re doing could be driving people away. One problem I’ll admit exists in this advice is ...
Continue Reading →There have been times in my life, often at work, where someone has pointed out a way that I could improve how I’m doing things. I’m almost always surprised when I receive this advice: mostly because I can’t believe I didn’t see that what I was doing was a bad way of doing things.
I think that most of us, from time to time at least, lose a little bit of our self-awareness. When a celebrity says something absolutely crazy, ...
Continue Reading →I’m a big fan of getting to the first date quickly in online dating. I wrote about this in detail in my article on planning the first date. I didn’t realize this when I started my website, but it turns out that lots of people giving online dating advice hold this opinion too.
Personally, I had success with this approach. But one reader contacted me with some doubts:
The way Match.com works can sometimes create confusion for subscribers. In this case, a woman receives a wink from a man and she’s interested so she emails him back…then he doesn’t respond! What’s up with that? Here’s an example from a reader:
Continue Reading →Hi, I have received a wink a couple of months ago from a match guy. He also made me a favorite and “liked” my pictures. I winked back and sent him a note thanking him. No response. A month ...
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With online dating, people can sometimes behave in strange ways that may cause us to want to give up on trying to communicate with them. Below is one example of how communication can fall apart as we are building a relationship. After the example, I’ll discuss how I feel it’s best to approach this type of situation.
Continue Reading →I met a great guy online in December and we saw each other all that month and into January and everything was great! We ...