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 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 All, Dating Advice on August 24th, 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, Dating Stories on August 21st, 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 Dating Advice on August 19th, 2010 No Comments »
Another instance of “the more things change, the more they stay the same.” Ran across this recent ivillage article on the plights and perils of online dating, What has changed, according to the perspicacious writer of the article, is that online dating is now mainstream. Imagine that! Online daters no longer need to blanch with […]
Posted in Dating Advice on August 12th, 2010 6 Comments »
The information in this post comes primarily from an article published in January, 2009 in The Independent, a British daily, perhaps on a par with USA Today in terms of its readership and coverage.
The article grapples with the eternal question of whether or not it’s a good idea to have sex on the first date […]
Posted in Dating Advice on August 5th, 2010 2 Comments »
The Carol Syndrome, dubbed thus by José-Manuel Rey, PhD and professor of mathematics at Madrid University, in his award winning story published in the magazine of living mathematics, Plus +, is the anecdotal phenomenon whereby especially attractive women and men are often left unapproached, deemed unapproachable, and go virtually dateless notwithstanding their obvious physical appeal.
As […]
Posted in Dating Advice on July 29th, 2010 1 Comment »
You’re a good person. Not perfect. But, you work hard, try to do the right thing, take reasonably good care of yourself, and abide by most of the laws, rules and conventions of polite society. Yet, when it comes to online dating, your reputation might suffer, if anyone knew. Thank goodness what happens on Match.com […]
Posted in Dating Advice on July 22nd, 2010 4 Comments »
I’m always ever-so-slightly interested in people’s signs. Yet I don’t truly believe in astrology, or astrologers, or astrological texts. But they can be uncannily insightful. Or maybe it’s just that we like reading about “ourselves.”
For the record, I don’t think it’s important what people believe in, or say they believe in. I am unabashedly unashamed […]
