Tag: casual
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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 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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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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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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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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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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Women’s Lib and Casual Dating
The phrase ‘Women’s Lib’ seems in some areas to be a bit of a polarising rallying cry. I’ve known both men and women treat it with suspicion, like some euphemism for a bad attitude or the cue for disruptive behaviour. At the same time, the minute I hear it mentioned in connection to dating and…
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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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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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Should You Respond?
I have to admit I was a bit thrown the other week when someone I’d sent a quick message to actually came back to me. I wasn’t thrown because they responded (I’m not that bad at this), but more because of what they said. The email said simply: “Hey, no thanks, but good luck, keep…
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Casual Dating Isn’t A Dirty Word
There’s a lot of people who, if you ask them about casual dating, will tell you that it’s just a way of looking for a cheap thrill. There can be an expectation of sex being pretty much laid out on a plate and that casual daters embody everything that’s wrong with the dating scene. There’s…
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Do scarlet women get all the views?
A recent book, Drunk Tank Pink, by a New York University professor of marketing looks at, among other things, how colour affects the way people behave, think and feel. Somewhat intriguingly, the book’s findings suggest that the colour red gets the most positive responses from people in pretty much every example. A survey of men,…
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A New Web Series…about Grindr?
A lot of dating sites have developed apps for smartphones and tablets that are aimed at helping their members get in touch, but few apps have proved as popular or contentious as Grindr. Grindr has captured the hearts of gay men around the world, and has a reported user base of some 150000 men in…