Feeling a little invisible in your relationship? Wondering why your date’s version of give and take has a lot more take than give (which leaves you making up the difference)? Maybe you need to assess how you show up in your relationship, and whether you are looking out for yourself enough. On the other hand, [read more]
Dating Apps—The Best of the Best (For YOU!)
You are single. You have approximately zero minutes a day to spend on dating sites. You do not want to break the bank. And you love your smart phone. Lucky for you there are some amazing dating apps that were probably created specifically for you! Or at least for people just like you who can’t [read more]
Lovers to Friends? Should You Stay Friends after a Break-up?
“Let’s just be friends.” Four words dreaded by anyone who’s been in a fading or unequal relationship with what turns out to be a short shelf life. The comedic English singing duo, Rocky and Balls, sing about it quite hilariously in this video: Though the whole topic is superb fodder for a strange variety [read more]
How to Interpret a Profile #1—“About Me”
Last week I told you I was going to give you a break-down of three main areas in a profile and how to glean the most information from it. Let’s start with the “about me” section. Every site, except some of the more minimalist phone apps, includes this. If someone has written nothing in the [read more]
Age… Does it Matter?
Of course age doesn’t matter. Age discrimination is an appalling fact of life in all walks of life, and many young people feel marginalized as much as their seniors. Older people are judged as “expired,” “invalid,” “out of touch,” and the young as “naïve,” “ignorant” and “clueless.” But equality issues aside—what about age and dating? [read more]
The ABCs of Your Dating Code
Why do you need to know your dating code? A code is an internal radar system that helps you navigate the dating waters so you can find a meaningful relationship. You need to know what to look for, and what to look out for. Your code, quite simply, helps you get what you want and [read more]
Getting Started with Online Dating
I’m not going to lie to you. Getting back into the dating scene is not a walk in the park. It can be fantastically fun, interesting, rewarding, and exciting, but it can also be discouraging, time-consuming, frustrating, emotionally challenging, and, every now and then, a little ridiculous. Is it worth it? Absolutely. (And I can [read more]
Can long distance relationships last?
Long-distance relationships have been around for a long time. At one time in history separation by ten miles would constitute a long-distance relationship and contact would be done via handwritten letters. Much of the courtship between poets Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning was conducted via love letters, which are wonderful to read! They fell [read more]