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Dating online

Online Dating Etiquette: How to break up…virtually.

October 26, 2007

The adventure continues. My single mama friend has already been on date #1 from Yahoo Personals. The man in question had so many things in common with her. They both love reading, writing, the same bar scene, etc. She followed my advice, met for coffee, and had a wonderful time. But there was no spark. [...]

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Online Dating: Rules of Thumb

October 16, 2007

My fellow single mama friend just broke up with her boyfriend. Trying to distract herself from the drama of yet another failed relationship – she jumped online. Online to the land ofhope…where single men await by the hundreds. I talked to her last night as she checked out profile after profile – “oh, he’s super cute. Oh! Here’s another one! Oh my god, he just chatted me.” This morning, gave her another call, “hello???” She sounds exhausted.”I’ve been up all night online…20 guys have e-mailed me already!”

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E-harmony Dating Review: for the single parent or any other dater

October 15, 2007

Okay. Let me just preface this by saying, I went into this online dating thing with total enthusiasm and a very open mind. After all, I’ve heard that friends of friends have actually gotten engaged after meeting online. And with very little free time on my hands – why not try it out? I started out as a voyeur. I would scope out the men on Match.com. They all look like loser players, so I move on to EHarmony. Those commercials are just so enticing. Could those people be real? They have to be, right? So I sign up. I take the super personality tests of all personality tests and then wait as my matches come in.

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