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 ...
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 was reviewing some of my old articles from when I first started this site back in 2007 and decided to bring up some of the “forgotten” articles.
In this case I wanted to talk about a belief that many people hold true that can hurt their online dating experience: limiting themselves to dating a single person at a time.
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How do you know when you’ve met someone special? How do you know when it is time to stop meeting others? These are two questions I get with some regularity from my readers. In this article I want to talk about some of the signs to look for when considering if you should pursue one person exclusively.
Most of the time people don’t look to start long-distance relationships with online dating. However, for some of us there are reasons that we begin to consider long-distance as our best option. Reasons such as living in a low population area or having particular requirements in the person we would like to date that ...
With online dating, the rules for dating are sometimes similar to the old-style of dating but in many cases the rules that people operate under are very different. One area of difference occurs when someone loses interest. Below is a question I received from a reader recently:
Continue Reading →Thanks so much for your kind words of encouragement! I have a question and maybe I know the answer but sometimes it’s helpful to hear it from others. I had been communicating with a ...
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When dating online you may find yourself asking: Why did he stop responding? Did I scare her off? Did I say something wrong?
These are some of the most popular questions I receive from readers, both men and women. They will often send me their email communications to try to help identify where ...
Continue Reading →The traditional approach to dating, where men initiate much of the communication, can be a blessing and a curse. When the number of contacts being received is high, a woman has little need to search out the guys she wants to contact. However, when the contacts are low many women are presented with a significant problem (especially the women who prefer for men to initiate the communication).
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Online dating is designed to be a safe environment for meeting that “potential” person you are looking for. Yet oftentimes when dating online people forget to look for the “Red Flags”. There are always red flags that we should be looking for in the first or second email.
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This is a weird one but I figured I would share my thoughts just in case any other ladies out there run into a similarly strange situation. From a reader regarding some interactions on Match.com:
Continue Reading →I sent a guy a message, very brief, sweet, he “winked” back. At first I got excited but my friends say forget him, he’s flattered rather than interested. But I just don’t know how I feel about it, I agree but also disagree there ...
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Generally when I receive email regarding my online dating guide I don’t post anything about that here. However, I’ve decided to make an exception for one of the emails I recently received a month or two ago. This is because in this case the person who read my guide is taking the exact steps I hope all my readers would. Here’s the email:
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