Online Dating Guide & Blog

Have you ever been on a first date where from the very beginning your date was rude or angry? I’ve experienced this type of date once when using internet dating sites and have heard several horror stories from friends who have also run into this. From what I have seen, it seems to happen most […]

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I’ve been receiving a healthy amount of traffic to my blog posts lately. Surprisingly, very little of that traffic ends up viewing my online dating guide. I had anticipated that people would find my site through the individual posts but end up reading the dating guide. I looked into the statistics to try to understand […]

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I was on a date once and for the first fifteen minutes things were going fine. Mid-date, though, something changed and I could actually feel the woman across from me withdrawing from our conversations. Soon, every question I asked was met with a single word answer and she was making no attempts to start any […]

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In my online dating guide, I discussed how first contact should be made. To quickly sum it up: keep the email brief with some type of proof you read the profile.
I’ve covered those points several times in the past so why bring them up again? Primarily because I’ve always been providing second-hand information (that is, […]

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crass /kras/ - without refinement, delicacy, or sensitivity; gross; obtuse; stupid
I read an article today that got me worked up regarding what some men see as reasonable communication with women. The author, Barbara/Layla, describes a bad online date which isn’t really the problem (we all have those). The problem begins when the man emailed […]

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When I first started dating online, I believed that it was important that my profile be funny. Unfortunately, I found the harder I tried to be funny, the worse my profile became. Eventually I gave up on trying to be funny and just used my profile to describe myself and what I was looking for. […]

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