Tag: Australian 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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Travelling as a Relationship Test
Sooner or later while in the early stages of your relationship, you’re likely to want to go away somewhere, sharing time on a holiday break. There’s a lot to look forward to, a time full of excitement and romance. After all, it’s a great chance to step outside the normal day to day routines and…
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Are you still hung up on your ex?
They say that breaking up is the hardest thing to do – but for many of us it’s actually the bit that comes next that causes the most headaches. Moving on with your life should be a natural progression for anyone who has just come out of the other side of a relationship. The healthiest…
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Sustaining your sex life in your relationship
One of the greatest joys of a new relationship is the so-called ‘honeymoon’ period – that time when everything about your partnership is new and exciting. This is often the time when your sex life is at its most intense – that new relationship energy pushing you into each other’s arms and prompting you to…
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Can Two Alpha Personalities Get On?
We’ve written here before about how nice guys and gals typically come last when it comes to dating because of a lack of balance in power. If you don’t struggle to keep some measure of independence and equality, one of you essentially begins to run the relationship and makes all the decisions before getting bored…
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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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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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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…
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Do We Need Dating Schools?
There’s a new schools program in the United States that is trying to address the harm that can be caused by bad dating habits. Aimed at teenagers, the program encourages them to define their relationships with other people into categories such as “just texting”, “casually hooking up”, “friends with benefits” or “monogamous”. The program not…
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Something for the Tourists – How to Date An Australian
We’re amazing, we know – and I’ve got a number of friends who’ve been dating people long distance or that have emigrated over here who have been sharing the ups and downs of dating people who just aren’t used to us. As a country, it’s fair to say we have a bit of a reputation…
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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…