Tag: online dating
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What Is Online Dating Etiquette?
As much as we like to think of the internet as being like the old American West, full of rough and ready spills, where we can do what we like, the truth these days is somewhat different – especially where it comes to etiquette, manners and dating. At it’s most basic, the principals behind online…
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Thinking of Dating Someone Younger?
You can’t help but to have noticed the term ‘cougar’ being bandied around over the last few years, with that powerful image of a predatory older woman hunting down younger guys. At heart it seems to be the same dynamic between a younger woman and a ‘sugar daddy’ – the search for wealth and power…
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Are You Scared Of Intimacy?
If you believe everything you read about online dating, you might think that setting up your profile and diving into the pool was the easiest and most natural thing in the world. For many people this is pretty accurate – there’s an excitement and flow to getting closer to meeting people for the first time…
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The Search for The One
Romance is alive and well in Australia according to a recent report. This year’s Date of the Nation report has surveyed online daters and found that over three quarters of the people asked are actively looking to spend the rest of their lives with ‘The One’. Even more interestingly, and counter to the scare stories…
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Decoding Those Text Messages
If you’ve been dating for any length of time it’s a fair bet that you’ve had one or two texts along the way. While sometimes simple, you’re almost certainly going to have received a few that have had you scratching your head and needing to get your friends to help you decode them. Texts can…
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Are you a Webtrovert?
One of the fun things about dating online is the sheer variety of people that you encounter along the way. Some of them are odd, some of them are quirky. Some are wonderfully warm and some are just asking for a slap in the chops. One of the oddest combinations to have come to light…
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Being mindful with social media
Two different news items this week demonstrate the difficult lessons that some men still have to learn when it comes to social media and their love lives. In one, a guy called Trevor was chatting with a girl he’d met through an online dating app about the weather when he sent an unsolicited naked picture…
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The Happiest Couples Met Online
A study this week has concluded that if you met your partner online, you are more likely to be happy and stay together than couples who met any other way. The study by US researchers was looking at how the dynamics of marriage may be being altered by the internet, and specifically by online dating.…
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The Six Best Excuses To Back Out Of A Date
So now you’ve agreed to meet up, and seemed such a great idea – but you’ve got cold feet. It might be something they said, or just a nagging reluctance, or perhaps you forgot that your aunt is coming into town and you’re expected to be on your best behaviour. Here are some of the…
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Gimmicky Dating Sites
Another week and news of another dating site giving itself a gimmicky focus hits the deck. There’s something about taking the open opportunities and free access of a dating and finding ways to narrow it again that somehow seems to chime with the wider public. Rather than putting your interests in your profile as something…
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Flirting Online
I can’t deny that flirting online is fun. The freedom you get from not having to be in the same room as someone to have a great time with them can’t be understated. The stress levels just fall away and when you’re being a casual flirt you can pick whatever personality and background you like.…
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Deal-breaker Moments
We’ve all had them – that moment where you’re all ready to jump into the fray and move from on-line flirting to meeting them in the flesh for that first date. The banter might be good. They can make you laugh with their cheeky ways. You get that little buzz when you know they’re on-line…
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The Evolution of Australian Dating
If there’s one thing you can learn from talking to people around the world, it’s that attitudes to dating vary widely. Some countries and cultures are more conservative than others. Taiwan, for example is much more conservative than our more freewheeling dating culture, with partners mostly set up through their friends. Someone coming from a…