Have you been inundated with the Super Bowl pre-game activity options? You could easily devote the whole weekend to Super Bowl shows if you wanted. In scanning the various proceeding, it reminded me of a conversation I had recently with a single gal pal. We were talking about how important first impressions are in dating….
Winning at the online dating game
No bull — Welsh dairy farmers herding up dates
Single Welsh dairy farmers looking for love are putting personal ads on their milk cartons! How udderly creative! This comes as they celebrate St. Dwynwen’s Day (Jan. 25), The Welsh patron saint of lovers. They’re milking this for all it’s worth! One of the girlfriendless farmers, Iwan Jones, said, “The Welsh countryside is a great…
Can Google help — or hinder — your dating life?
Perhaps you’re like me and immediately Google a guy as soon as you have his first and last name. While I’ve never found any incriminating evidence this way, I have found some interesting items about the guy I’m considering meeting. I imagine myself a CSI (one of my favorite shows), linking disparate clues to complete…
When do you feel most vulnerable in dating?
Recently I’ve been feeling sort of vulnerable regarding the guy I’ve been seeing. He doesn’t call every day and if more than a few days pass, I begin to feel he’s gone “poof” like so many men before him. I could call him — and I have — but know that He’s Just Not That…
The first time … calling him
A guy you’ve been emailing from a dating site has given you his number and requested you call if you want to talk. You’re grateful because you’re uneasy giving a stranger your phone number. His number sits on a Post-It on your desk. You pick it up several times a day. But you put it…
What was he thinking?
Today I received emails from two guys from different dating sites. Reading them, I couldn’t help but wonder, “What was he thinking? That this would be appealing to me?” See what you think. YourSlave wrote (this is how he sent it): I KISS YOUR PERFECT PALE WHITEST FEET DEAR GODDESS I WILL ACTUALLY BE IN…
Are you a power dater? Would you be upset with one?
Another Internet dater shared that a guy she’d met online called and set a coffee date at 1:00 the following Monday. A little later, he called her again, apparently thinking she was a different woman, and set a 3:00 coffee date for the same day. She was incensed. She told him off and canceled both…
Do you tell suitors how to make you happy?
My friend Bruce says most women don’t know how to express how a man can make her happy. Women commonly say they want nebulous characteristics, like successful, strong, communicative, fun. A woman’s profile often says she wants a long list of nearly impossible attributes. A man begins to read the superman-like list and moves on…
Being seduced by what he is over who he is
I admit it. I’ve been so enticed by what a man is that it’s clouded my judgment about who he is. When dating the crazy psychiatrist, I adored when he consulted the pharmacist about what over-the-counter remedy would reduce my cold symptoms. I loved telling my friends that I was dating a doctor. Shallow, I…
Your Date-A-Base — tracking multiple suitors
When people hear that I’ve dated 71 men in 2 years and that I often date several guys simultaneously, they commonly ask, “How do you keep them straight?” I respond, “With a Date-A-Base.” Since I’m a business woman, I’ve long kept a database to track my customers. In business it is also known as a…
Getting to know a man through his humor
A recent press release announced a new dating site, Funny Passions, for “singles with a sense of humor.” This strikes me as odd. I’ve never met anyone who thought him/herself humorless. Nearly everyone thinks they have a sense of humor, even if it’s obscure. Why is this site different? The release says “an entire site…