Dating for grown-ups (the wrong way)

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I’ve just finished dating my dad. R and I met in Putney. Our first date was good and we got on well – he was interesting, engaged and keen. God, he was keen, he kept trying to snog my face off in public – cute if he’s 14 and on a park bench after school, […]
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Almost a year ago I wrote an article for the news column called e-tiquette to help TBW members get a better success rate. Well it looks like I need to say it all over again. There’s been a bit of moaning on the forum lately about people not having much success with the opposite sex. […]
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Picture the scene: our new garden.  Not humid.  Not sticky.  Just warm and perfect as a only a British summers evening can be.  Sun slanting over the beautiful Magnolia tree in the back of the garden, casting the touch of shade required. The Toeheads were jumping on their trampoline and were in fits of happy, […]
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I’ve been doing a fair amount of reading recently, all the latest articles on TBW, and about TBW, (yes boys and girls it seems we are hot news on this site), plus research for my new novel which entails the delicious task of reading every hot gossip woman’s magazine on the market.  Anyway suffice it […]
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Are you ready for your Chemistry lesson? It has come to my attention that some of you are arriving in class (or on a date) sporting nothing more than that dangly thing between your legs believing it will guarantee you Access All Areas. Although the End of Term Exams are getting easier with more of […]
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They say, “Pride goeth before a fall.” True enough. But you know what “pride” also likes to get its egocentric self mixed up in? Rejection. That’s right. You know the kind; she’s plainly not interested or he’s performed the old Indian Rope Trick and vanished into thin air etc. And guess what, “Face, bovvered?” Sadly […]
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There are massive advantages to going out with someone who was raised in different times to you. J was born in 1983 – the year I experienced my first (rather wet and yukky) French kiss. As he was getting to grips with the alphabet, I was passing my high school finals. By the time he […]
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“A person who treats an intimate relationship chiefly as a source of material gain” 8 years on into the 21st Century, I would have thought that by now EVERY woman was independent enough to have her own career, a property, pay her own way and have her own separate bank account without leeching onto a […]
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For those who are in the dating game, you would be surpised on how much information you can dig up on your date using the net these days. Internet search has totally changed the dating scene. In traditional dating you find out about the person that you are dating by spending time with him/her, and […]
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International Toy Boys are a subject dear to my heart. You see its not just younger men I date; it’s always been younger foreign men. It all started when I was running club nights for the ICA when I had to do a funding bid.  There was a Cultural Diversity clause included, and my friends […]
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