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Match.com Baby

Published on June 11, 2012

As many reader’s here know, I met my wife using the dating service Match.com. We’ve been married for 5 years now and are entering the next phase of our family: expecting our first child. We decided to have some fun with finding out the sex of our baby by having a gender reveal party. If […]

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Online Marital Status After a Very Short Marriage

Published on March 5, 2012

I received an email some time ago that actually hit pretty close to home in regards to my experience with online dating: How should I handle listing my marital status when I was divorced after a very short marriage? Especially when the divorce was caused by the other person cheating? Here is the email that […]

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Should Online Dating Come Naturally?

Published on January 23, 2012

I recently had a reader contact me to let me know that he was giving up on trying to use online dating. He listed several things that bothered him but a big part of his argument was this: Online dating should come naturally and if it doesn’t come naturally for me, then I guess I […]

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Embarrassed to Reveal You Met Online

Published on November 7, 2011

Have you found success with online dating but now you or your significant other is struggling to admit to others how you met? Believe it or not, my wife and I have actually been there as well. At a company Christmas party several years ago we were in a group of at least 6 people […]

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Men That Go Beyond One Email Attempt in Online Dating

Published on October 3, 2011

Recently I wrote an article discussing the topic of a man re-contacting a woman after his first email was unsuccessful (that is, she may have looked at his profile but didn’t respond). In that article, I discussed how the reader had a theory that contacting later could be beneficial because she may be more able […]

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Thoughts on Dating Confidence and Comfort

Published on June 10, 2011

When I first started this site, one of the things that bothered me most about the online dating advice I had been finding was that everything had the same answer: be more confident. I found this advice very hard to take and I actually gave up on acting confident. I think occasionally I might have […]

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Bringing a Friend on a First Date with Online Dating

Published on June 5, 2011

From time to time I see online dating safety advice offering this as a suggestion: bring a friend with you on a first date. I understand the need to be safe but I really dislike this suggestion. Mostly because I had a woman bring a friend on a first date with me and it really […]

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Being Stood Up While Dating Online

Published on April 7, 2011

In a post a few weeks ago, I gave some additional details behind my online dating experience. After writing that post, I decided I wanted to talk specifically about some of my dates in detail. Photo by Peter Clark For my first topic on the subject, I wanted to talk about the time I was […]

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My Online Dating Success Story

Published on March 8, 2011

Sometimes I reference my experience in my other posts and while I discuss my dating history in my guide, I wanted to have an article I could make references to that anyone could see. I’m not going to go into extreme detail but this should give a nice overview of my online dating experience for […]

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Dating Advice Can Be Depressing

Published on February 12, 2010

There is a lot of dating advice out there and much of it tries to make your dating problems sound as if they are the easiest thing to solve in the world. Recently I was shown a video of a very handsome man giving dating advice on how everyone should just “get over” rejection. By […]

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Online Dating Success Story: Post-Wedding Thoughts

Published on January 6, 2010

Some years ago a friend of mine had been discussing the idea of loneliness with me and while she didn’t come out and say she was looking to date, I felt the signs were there. I mentioned this blog and then discussed some ideas on why I think she might want to try it. She […]

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How to Meet Women

Published on September 18, 2009

When I was single, I always felt like meeting women was very difficult. And for me, for quite a long time, it was. But then, almost over night things seemed to come together and I was meeting lots of women and I was even getting plenty of dates. Some weeks I would have multiple first […]

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