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Text speech
We saw this piece in the Metro the other day and had to share it! Bad spelling and the use of abbreviations and acronyms such as ‘gr8’, ‘lol’ and ‘LMAO’ often put off a would-be partner from a second meeting. Double-texting, where another text is sent before getting a reply to the first, and one-word […]
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Age gap love
We at TBW HQ found this great article in the Chicago Tribune last week… Old enough to be his…. Wife “When he moved to Los Angeles, Charlie Capen, 20 at the time, could have joined his friends hitting the clubs. Instead, he fell in love with a woman eight years older, an age difference that […]
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Keeping hush
Recently I was talking to a man about relationships. I occasionally like to confer with the enemy on topics such as this, in order to gain a greater understanding of their species. I was interested to hear his views on the subject. Despite being an open-minded chap, breezy about subjects sexual and seemingly unfazed with […]
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Superhero men vs reality
We see article after article about what women want in a relationship. What about what men want? An article we found on the Huffington Post has this to say: It’s as if we have been catalogued and written off as a basic 8th grade science project, given a footnote reading: Driven by sex, motivated by […]
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Bridget Jones
In response to her recent post, ‘How to be a Man’, Katy Horwood (@katy_red) was delighted to welcome English cricketer, journalist and author, Simon Hughes, (@cricketanalyst) with his response on – yes, you’ve guessed it – How to be a Woman! A tongue firmly in a cheek and not a cricket ball in sight, enjoy… […]
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Online dating advice
Whilst browsing around, we came across this man’s guide for women on what to do and what not to do when seeking a match online. 1. First, ignore any overture that isn’t polite and genuine and well-written. Don’t respond to electronic winks. That’s just some lazy slob who probably can’t write or has decided you […]
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30's life advice
This topic, #ThingsYouShouldStopDoingInYour30s, is trending on Twitter, so we thought we’d come up with some of our own! These are: asking your parents for money to go on dates asking your parents for money for anything living with your parents clubbing like you’re 18 drinking until you pass out dressing like a teenager sulking because […]
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Older men keeping younger women
There has been a certain amount of controversy recently about a website that is to be launched in the UK. Its formula has proved successful across the pond and creators of the site have decided to give it a try in Blighty to see how it might fair. It is called Seeking Arrangements and, as […]
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Baby boomers
We came across this great article written by Ken Solin, in the Huffington Post the other day, about the joys of dating women born during the Baby Boom, now affectionately, and popularly, known as Baby Boomers. Here’s what he has to say: While I’m working on my dating skills, I’ve been pleased to notice that […]
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Cartoon of man limboing
You know I’ve fancied ‘older women’ ever since puberty. .. And yes in my younger years I guess the ratio erred towards sexual desire over those other, and supposedly more ‘fulfilling’, aspects that any form of personal relationship is supposed to bring us. Indeed I can tell you that at the age of twenty-six I […]
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