Posted in Dating Stories on March 12th, 2010 1 Comment »
A_. cut my hair the other day at
Carefree Haircutting on 2nd Street in Belmont Shore. You can hardly tell. That’s why I go to her. And I like her personality. I’m not a salon girl. But I like A_. She knows her way around my head, and she has me in and out in 15 […]
Posted in All, Dating Advice on March 12th, 2010 1 Comment »
There is so much content online, and now alltop.com arrives to sort it out and make it more readily available to people like you and me. Narrowing my search on alltop to just relationships, dating, online dating, or sex still produces an abundance of recent posts and articles from various sources, reliable, and not so […]
Posted in Dating Advice on March 11th, 2010 2 Comments »
Want to know why you’re not getting very much bang out of your online dating buck, so to speak? It’s probably due to one of the following:
1. No picture; or a lousy picture. Anyone can take a decent photo. You don’t have to be Angelina or Brad and appeal to all of humanity. You’re only […]
Posted in Miscellaneous on March 11th, 2010 1 Comment »
Love in Greek is expressed by five different words:
Epithumia — attraction to the “other”, desire
Eros — romance, longing
Storge — affection, belonging
Phile — friendship, cherishing
Agape — unconditional love, selfless giving.
“Love” is outdistancing “sex” and “garage sales” in the current FlirtySomething Times interactive poll as the most interesting subject. So, dear reader, I offer you this breakdown […]
Posted in Dating Stories on March 9th, 2010 3 Comments »
Steve joined the ranks of online daters just recently, and posts this story of his first Match.com in-person meeting. In the interim, he has joined FlirtySomething and has been having much better luck with the ladies. Here’s his story:
At about the time Barack Obama was announcing his plans to run for president my marriage of […]
Posted in All, Miscellaneous on March 9th, 2010 2 Comments »
I’m convinced that online, as elsewhere, most “content” is empty, and also that a frequent indicator of something not worth reading is a title that announces a big topic broken into x-number of stages, phases, steps or whatever.
But ISO inspirational, educational, or entertaining material on dating to share with my readers, I clicked into the […]
Posted in Dating Advice, Dating Stories on March 6th, 2010 2 Comments »
You’re single but open to the idea of a companion, a friend, a lover, a date, a partner…whatever. You’re not miserable. You have a life. You have plenty to do. Sometimes you’re bored or lonely, but so are people in relationships.
So, you join FlirtySomething because you like to flirt. And, who knows, you may just […]
Posted in All, Dating Advice on March 6th, 2010 1 Comment »
Even though some people are turning to free social networking sites like MySpace for dating, there’s a trade-off in terms of safety and security. I don’t know about you, but I’m more than happy to pay a modest monthly rate to know that I’m not networking with minors or child molesters.
FlirtySomething builds safety into its […]
Posted in Dating Advice on March 4th, 2010 1 Comment »
The Marriage-Go-Round by Andrew J. Cherlin, a demographer and sociologist at Johns Hopkins University, makes the case that Americans venerate and practice marriage with more fervor than their Western nation counterparts. For many or most Americans, marriage represents the non plus ultra of human relationships.
Then there’s reality, the often ugly aftermath of marriage — the […]
Posted in Dating Stories on March 3rd, 2010 No Comments »
At flirtysomething, storytelling (distinguished from kissing and telling) is highly recommended. See our Dream and Nightmare Date Story feature, and please send us some of your own most memorable date stories. All names of people in your stories will be changed to protect the innocent, and not-so-innocent alike. Hey, it’s the classy thing to do, […]
