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Dating chemistry

Becoming smitten with the fantasy

Posted on May 29, 2006 by Dating Goddess

I’ve been surprised when men become smitten with me without yet meeting me. Perhaps we’ve had some interesting emails and phone calls, and they begin professing their love — or lust — for me. It’s happened enough times, I’ve decided they fall for the fantasy. When I was first dating, it happened to me. Now…

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Shopping for men

Posted on May 19, 2006October 2, 2019 by Dating Goddess

Dating life can be brutal. You make an effort to look nice (I call it getting “dated up”) to meet someone new, then he either doesn’t contact you afterwards, tells you he’s not attracted to you or there’s none of that elusive “chemistry.” You have to have perseverance and hope that someone for you is…

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Chemistry, or does he make my toes curl?

Posted on May 14, 2006 by Dating Goddess

Chemistry is often listed as what one wants in a relationship. However no one can seem to describe what that is. They will just “know it when they feel it.” It is attraction. For men it seems to be “I want to be intimate with this person.” For women, it can be “I feel great…

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Dating is like Baskin-Robbins

Posted on May 8, 2006January 19, 2010 by Dating Goddess

I compare my philosophy of dating to visiting Baskin-Robbins where I ordered vanilla for 20 years (maybe it was Rocky Road at the end!). While I enjoyed vanilla, I want to try new flavors. And I didn’t want to jump from vanilla and make a commitment to butter pecan without having tasted a little pistachio,…

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You’ve got to kiss a lot of …. princes!

Posted on May 8, 2006 by Dating Goddess

Most of the women over 40 I talk to have become frustrated about dating because they seem to think many men are cads, players, jerks — in other words frogs! I’m here to share another view. In the last 18 months, as of today I’ve dated 56 men. No, that’s not 56 dates, but 56…

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After her 20-year marriage dissolved, the Dating Goddess dated 91 men in 3.5 years. She shares her lessons, stories and advice for midlife women reentering the dating scene.

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