Month: June 2013

  • Can Casual Dating Lead To More?

    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,…

  • Advice Women Shouldn’t Follow

    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…

  • Realising What You Have To Offer

    Realising What You Have To Offer

    One of the downsides of coming out of a long term relationship can be the temptation to take the blame and be overly critical of yourself. It can be very easy to think that there’s something wrong with you or assume that the end of a relationship means that you are no good at them.…

  • Where dating costs the most

    Where dating costs the most

    Searching for love has always required commitment – whether in time, patience or determination, but according to the Deutsche Bank, you’ll also need  to really commit your wallet if you’re dating in Australia. This is because we’ve been ranked as the most expensive country to go dating in anywhere in the world. Based on the…

  • Being mindful with social media

    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…

  • Being A Great Date

    Being A Great Date

    Just as in a job interview, the first few minutes of a date are the most important when it comes to making the best impression possible. After that, I’ve heard people say the next thirty minutes are crucial for creating and building your emotional chemistry. It doesn’t sound like much, so you need to put…

  • The Happiest Couples Met Online

    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.…

  • Watch Out For Bad Neighbours

    Watch Out For Bad Neighbours

    Rumours in the news this week are swirling around Madison Ashton following her eviction from Paramount Apartments. The former mistress of Richard Pratt is now facing yet more accusations of running a brothel out of a residential building. The issue appears to be that Ms Ashton has been running a licensed brothel successfully in Darlinghurst,,…