Picking a Tagline to Enhance Your Online Dating Profile
In addition to displaying a screen name, many online-dating sites allow you to display a phrase, called a tagline. Some sites, such as Match.com, let you choose a long screen name and a long tagline. That [more…]
Recognizing the Signs of True Love
Love. Amour. Amore. In popular fiction, the signs of true love tend toward the melodramatic: heart palpitations, loss of sleep, loss of appetite, blowing curtains, fireworks. If you feel these things, [more…]
Pacing a New Romantic Relationship
New relationships are fragile. If you rush through important intimacy stages, the relationship takes a hit — and often ends prematurely. Following are a few suggestions about how to slow things down and [more…]
Understanding Genital Warts and Herpes
One out of four Americans between the ages of 15 and 55 will contract at least one sexually transmitted disease. The more you know, the more you can prevent this from happening to you. Below, two incurable [more…]
Dealing with a Lack of Sexual Desire in Women
Many women start out with a low sex drive. Others have problems after they've had children. Still others don't begin to have such problems until after menopause. A number of women also have low desire [more…]
Developing Fantastic Friendships
An anonymous writer put it this way: "Friends in your life are like pillars on your porch. Sometimes they hold you up and sometimes they lean on you. Sometimes it's just enough to know they're standing [more…]
Dating Dilemma: Breaking Up
If your relationship gives you more misery than pleasure and more pain than fun, sit down with a pencil and paper and figure out what you want and what you're willing to offer to get it. If you discover [more…]
Surviving Dating's Most Embarrassing Moments
You may have experienced one or two dating disasters where you wished you could have crawled under the table to hide for the next decade or so. Well, you can breathe a huge sigh of relief as soon as you [more…]
Online Dating Dilemma: Dishing Out Rejection
The Internet is a strange place, and what seems abnormal for in-person experiences is completely common on the Internet. Notice that the word is common, [more…]
Addressing Sex (or Not) in Your Online Dating Profile
If you subscribe to a mainstream online dating site, the site won't ask you overtly sexual questions for your profile, but that doesn't mean you won't have ample opportunity to lace sexual innuendo into [more…]
Finding Out How Pay Sites Pay Off in Online Dating
You get what you pay for in life, Internet-dating sites included. Unlike free sites, with pay sites you don't have the headache of endless advertising messages screaming in your face. In addition, the [more…]
Signing Up for a Personal Matchmaking Service
Personal matchmaking services vary enormously, depending on their population; the credentials, training, skill, professionalism, and ethics of the matchmaker; whether the company is a nationwide franchise [more…]
Keeping Your Safety in Mind as You Date
Dating can be scary and fun and challenging, but you want it to be that way for all the right reasons — not because you haven't taken reasonable precautions about your own safety. Just as you look both [more…]
