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Tag: Dating

  • Dating Advice: Start with a List

    Starting to date after a marriage has ended can be difficult. I often hear, “I never thought I would be doing this again.” After spending most of my adult life with the same man, I was not prepared for dating at 39 either. Regardless of whether meeting someone new involves sitting on a barstool, through a…

  • Advice to Writers from Ernest Hemingway: Write Drunk; Edit Sober

    I have been stuck. For the first time since starting this blog, I have struggled with writing. While Ernest Hemingway probably took his own advice literally, it resonated for me this week figuratively: “Write drunk; edit sober.” My writing struggle has not been a Jack-Torrence-like* problem; I have not been staring at a blank screen…

  • 10 Tips to Help Men Improve Online Dating Profiles

    In the year and a half I have written on this blog I have only written three posts in the category While Perched Upon My Soapbox. It is the one area of writing that is still hard for me to just let the words fly and hit publish. Today I have to add the fourth…

  • How to Find a Life Partner in 3 Easy Steps

    There are a plethora of dating sites, local singles clubs, matchmaker services, and self-help books on how to choose the right man (or woman). Sites claim to have success in matching partners based upon various personality or psychological questionnaires. Does any of this actually work in finding the perfect partner? If so, why is the…

  • Love in the Right League

    “You were way out of his league. You know that, don’t you?” When a friend made this comment following a relationship breakup last fall, I didn’t know what to say. In many respects he was right. All of my friends were right actually; each person commenting expressed the sentiment differently, but there was a general…