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 Miscellaneous on March 1st, 2010 No Comments »
Guess what? I’m not so shocked at these findings.
Originally published in Psychology Today, author Kathleen McGowan lists seven important truths we all should know, or do know and repress or ignore, about sex and long-term passion. Here’s a brief summary of McGowan’s points; my comments follow each shocker in brackets.
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Posted in Dating Stories, Miscellaneous on February 25th, 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 Miscellaneous on February 19th, 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 Miscellaneous on February 9th, 2010 No Comments »
Are you straight, gay, bisexual, monogamous, polyamorous, or, perhaps, a bit ambivalent about any or all of these categories? Is there a nook or cranny of your sexuality that you have left unexplored, or that you have explored but have kept mostly hidden from friends and family?
FlirtySomething’s Queen Bee finally got around to screening Vicky […]
Posted in Miscellaneous on January 30th, 2010 4 Comments »
First off, for those of you who don’t already know, guided communication is a model employed by several major dating sites, ostensibly to safeguard users’ anonymity in the matching process, while, through the grace of relationship science, ensuring the optimal context for matchmaking. Depending on the particular site, you post a profile, it’s hidden, and […]
Posted in Dating Advice, Miscellaneous on January 28th, 2010 No Comments »
Dating profiles don’t HAVE to be so trite, cliche-ridden, unrevealing of their authors’ true personalities, unfunny, and often an affront to any sentient reader. If you’re fresh out of inspiration for posting your flirtysomething profile, check out this wonderful collection of outragious, witty, thought-provoking, and ultimately revealing personal profiles!
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Posted in Miscellaneous on January 20th, 2010 3 Comments »
We care about our president’s love life because, in addition to the economy, health care, foreign affairs, public education, and the environment (to name but a few problem areas) — 21st century personal relationships could use some serious retooling, from what I can tell.
Many claim that divorce, infidelity and sexual dysfunction are epidemic — which […]
Posted in Dating Advice, Miscellaneous on January 14th, 2010 1 Comment »
A very smart rocket scientist friend, Dr. Bob, came up with an equation to define happiness.
Check it out!
H(Happiness) = k(Actuality-Expectation).
Everyone, even a little skilled in math, knows that when something is proportional to something else, it can be written as something = k (something else)
In this case, happiness is proportional to the difference between where […]
Posted in Miscellaneous on January 10th, 2010 No Comments »
You’ll enjoy these as much as I do because they’re witty, romantic, and original….so check ‘em out!
SettleForBrian.com will appeal to every online dater who’s ever gotten fed up with the whole dehumanizing process. Brian got tired of competing with millions of other single guys on “Natch”.com.
So Brian created his own dating site. It’s cute. It’s […]
