Winter Love – The season for online dating?

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Winter Love – The season for online dating?

Being at a spectacularly loose end one boring afternoon, I found myself idly flicking through the ‘hot or not’ pages of a well-known conventional dating website (the occasional comparison helps to appreciate Toyboy Warehouse just that little bit more, I’ve found). Each profile has a headline, an opening bait if you will, to lure a […]
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Three steps to first-date success

It’s the start of a new school year, the perfect time to learn something new, right? Learning’s not just reserved for kids, you know. We can all get stuck in a rut or need to brush up on our skills – and our ability to create great first dates is no exception. So whether you’re an experienced […]
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You’ve got mail

It’s hard to believe for some of you, I’m sure, but there was written communication before the invention of the internet and email. No, really. We’d sit down with a pen and a piece of paper, and write what was known as ‘a letter’. It meant we thrilled to the sound of the ‘clunk-click-thump’ of […]
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5 top tips to avoid first-date fatigue

You’re on the site. Your profile’s been buffed and polished with a little help from us. You’ve winked, e-card-ed and exchanged messages with the one who’s caught your eye. Let’s face it; you’re on the verge of a hot date with a lucky lad or lady. Mazel tov! The obvious next step’s an alcoholic drink […]
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How low would you go?

I was incensed recently when on another ‘regular’ dating website I received a generic email from it’s owner, laying down the law about approaching people on his site that were younger than you. In his ignorance he had used an example of an older man approaching a younger woman (it was as if the reverse […]
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I am Cougar. Hear me… Meow?

What do you call a woman over 40 who’s attracted to younger guys? Yup. You’ve got it. ‘Cougar’. I don’t know about ‘birds do it, bees do it’, but it certainly seems that an increasing number of female celebrities are doing it.   From something that once only made the lurid end of the media […]
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Mrs Robinson, Cougar or just a Woman?

Here’s to you, Mrs. Robinson. A 2003 survey conducted by the National Association of Retired Persons revealed that one-third of single women between 40 and 60 are dating younger men, qualifying as ‘cougars’. Brenda Dos Santos laughs, “I’m the poster child for the ‘Urban Cougar’ trend. I’m 46 and only date boys in their 20s […]
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The Theory of Attraction – Advice by ‘Mr Smooth’

Whether dating on or offline everyone has their own tricks and techniques to start conversations and build relationships. Some believe it’s a numbers game, some just look at photos, some location whereas others simply will not approach anyone themselves. There is not one formula of how to increase your ‘success rates’, whatever you class ‘success’ […]
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The things I know now…

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the lessons that life has taught me so far. On the eve of my 45th birthday, I’m certainly not the same person I was twenty years ago. I struggled as a teen and through my 20’s to find my voice and connect to who I was as an […]
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