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Ask Tanya | No sex please, We’re old.

Over the years I have heard and experienced the breakup of many friends and colleagues. When asked the reasons why – aside from the usual compatibility or ‘growing apart’ issues; at some point sex has played a part. Reasons range from partners going off sex, unable to keep up with his demands, to just becoming […]
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Ask Tanya | Dating Etiquette

Are there do’s and don’t s when it comes to the first date for either man or woman and does it make any difference when it comes to age difference?   Having been asked this question by one of the members, I had to give this some thought as whilst I’ve had first dates I’d […]
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Texting

Online messaging doesn’t count as talking. In the growing technological world more and more people spend most of their time talking through via text. Not so much as a phone call now but a text. Texts are easier, faster and cheaper but not so useful for full blown conversations. Especially with newly blossoming romantic interests […]
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How Chivalry Will Make or Break Your Relationship

So, you got the girl. Success. Been in a relationship for months. Success. Cohabiting or even getting married. Success. You laid out the foundations of your future, thinking not just about you and your partner, but children too. It all seemed to come together, an idyllic union so cliché that you marvelled at how ridiculously […]
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Ask Tanya | Online Dating – Fear or Fun?

  Remember when first dates came from chatting to someone you’d met in a bar, club or even bumped into down the supermarket and you arranged to meet for the evening? Oh life was so simple then because although the follow up date may have given you butterflies, at least you partly knew what you […]
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Is together gone forever

Goodbye Monogamy? | Is Together Gone Forever?

It’s as apparent on the streets as it is between the sheets; everything’s now casual. Why wear a shirt and tie when a t-shirt’s deemed more suitable, and why tie yourself to just one person when you can try a whole wardrobe of lovers on for size? Traditionally, both God and social science brought multiple […]
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Ask Tanya | Introducing Tanya

Welcome to the first of my column in which I will be looking to share my experiences not only with online dating but in particular dating a man much younger than yourself or indeed a man dating an older woman. So who am I? Like many of the ladies on here, I was married for […]
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Toyboy Warehouse Stories: Anna

Okay, hands up, I have been married twice. In my defence both were for considerable lengths of time and both were very faithful partnerships. Unfortunately both ended irreconcilably. So I found myself having to start over again, which was an extremely daunting prospect. I knew I would eventually need to muster the confidence to go […]
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