Posted in Dating Stories, Miscellaneous on September 2nd, 2010 3 Comments »
How crass have homo sapiens become? I ran across this article about a recent speed dating event featuring men with big wallets and women with big attributes of the gold digger kind. Decide for yourself.
I’ve never attended a speed dating event but suppose it could be kind of like a moveable feast. You get […]
Posted in Dating Advice on September 2nd, 2010 No Comments »
Again, thanks to Dr. Ian Kerner, CNBC relationship guru for leading me down this path.
4. Opposites attract! Anyone who has read Obama’s memoir, Dreams From My Father, knows that his childhood was anything but “typical.” His mother and father were divorced when he was a baby. He is bi-racial and grew up largely in […]
Posted in All, Dating Advice on September 2nd, 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 Stories on August 30th, 2010 4 Comments »
I received the following story from a FlirtySomething member. It’s a cautionary tale, and one most online daters can relate to.
“Randy was handsome, English, and his favorite movie was Ingmar Bergman’s Wild Strawberries. ‘Looks aren’t important to me,’ his profile said. ‘I’m looking for personality.’ I emailed him, and he responded within the hour.
We […]
Posted in All on August 30th, 2010 1 Comment »
Read this with Michelle playing in the background.
Here’s the deal…Barack Obama is still head over heals about Michelle. After 20 years of being a couple, he talks about the awesomeness of gazing into her eyes and feeling mystery and surprise.
Says the Prez, “Sometimes, when we’re lying together, I look at her and I feel dizzy […]
Posted in Miscellaneous on August 28th, 2010 No Comments »
This article is a must read for FlirtySomething members interested in an authoritative, accurate, and in-depth analysis of online dating. A summary of its findings legitimizes our assumptions about online dating, from the user perspective, and, specifically, the quasi-scientific compatibility tests that function as matchmakers on some of the major dating sites.
The findings concur with […]
Posted in All, Online Dating News on August 27th, 2010 No Comments »
Situation: You meet a guy or gal online, offline, in line…wherever. You make and keep a date with that person. In its aftermath, you wonder how they felt about the date, and you’d like to let them know what you’re thinking too. For better or worse, it’s only human to reflect and to want to […]
Posted in Dating Stories on August 27th, 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 Dating Advice, Miscellaneous on August 26th, 2010 2 Comments »
It’s taken two thirds of my lifetime (if I’m lucky) to even begin to wrap my mind around the meaning of the phrase, “Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” so skillfully borrowed from John Locke and embedded in the Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson’s only change to Locke’s phrasing was to replace […]
Posted in Dating Stories on August 24th, 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 […]
