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Handling Relationship Timings
How can you tell if you’re going to fall in love? It is surely one of the great mysteries of life, given that it is almost a guarantee that it will happen, but you have no way of telling when, or where, or how. You can almost certainly expect the other person to be in…
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Getting and Keeping Your Mojo
Have you ever noticed how things can pass you by for ages, and then suddenly a crop of coincidences will keep you hearing the same song, or seeing the same model of car or seeing the same time on the clock each day? In part it’s down to our ability to recognise patterns, and it’s…
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The Funny Thing About Dating
It should go without saying that we’re not all capable of being a headline stand-up comedy act, or of being able to hold a whole room rapt with attention as a raconteur of shaggy dog stories, but being able to share your sense of humour with a new date can go a long way in…
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Learning to Wing It
It’s a staple of jokes, fiction, and early evening worries; but there might just be some benefit to the concept of having a wingman when it comes to dating. When surveyed, nearly half the people asked recently confirmed that they believed that having someone by their side when out on the town hugely increases their…
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Getting the Balance in Relationships Right
By and large when we first meet someone, we’re pretty keen to be on the same page when it comes to issues of control and the balance of power within the relationship. Both people want to make a good impression, and so the decision making and compromises tend to switch back and forth between them.…
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What Do Your Shoes Say About You?
Fashion and dating gurus have been talking this week about the impact of the shoes you wear on your first meeting with someone. Some interesting opinions have been expressed above and beyond explaining the belief that well maintained and clean shoes demonstrate a care and attention that transfer into how people maintain their relationships: Street…
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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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Do Nice Guys and Girls Finish Last?
Our every instinct is to be as nice as possible in every way to our new partners when we start dating. We want them to think the best of us, so we always put them first and are prepared to drop everything at a moment’s notice to keep them happy. Surely, we think to ourselves,…
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7 Relationship Myths To Ignore
There’s a common misperception that there, somewhere, exists a rare beast known as the perfect relationship. This mythical relationship has no ups and downs, no sad times or happy times, just a never ending stream of steady being. It doesn’t exist, of course, because humans are not perfect, and so we all have to navigate…
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Communication for Couples
Perhaps one of the most clichéd pieces of advice we ever hear is that successful relationships rely on good communication. And yet how many times do we fall out or get into problems because we don’t do enough to promote positive communication? Positive communication means taking an active and continued role in making sure that…
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Cupid Sells Its Casual Dating Service
In an interesting move, one of the biggest players in the online dating business has agreed to sell its “casual dating” business to a company that was set up by one of its own co-founders. The deal is worth around seventy four million Australian dollars. Cupid say that they are selling that side of the…
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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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Can Casual Dating Lead To More?
A friend was recently talking about someone she’d met on-line a few months ago and how he’d made it clear that he didn’t have time to commit to a serious relationship for three reasons: he’d just started a new job, didn’t feel ready to settle and was also still new to the city. My friend,…
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Advice Women Shouldn’t Follow
Ask many women who they turn to for advice in love and life and you’ll usually hear them say they listen to their friends above all else. May we suggest that perhaps you should be a bit more selective about which of your friends you listen to. It can be very easy to forget how…
