Knowing the difference between love and lust can stop you falling into a bad relationship. It is so easy to convince yourself that within a week you are in love with someone but what you are really feeling is physical attraction. That may mean you find someone physically attractive to look at or perhaps their [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Not only do women now refer to most men as shallow but the men are now so guilt ridden that they themselves have begun to apologise for this perceived shallowness. Search the net for “shallow men” and see how many articles are written insisting that men are shallow because they find a certain body type [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, July 13, 2008
My brother met his wife of four years online, so without doubt you can meet people and fall in love through online dating sites. However the question is can you fall in love with someone you have only spoken to online and not met in real life? The simple answer, in my opinion, is a [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Mother Teresa said “The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread” and rarely have truer words been spoken. Unless you have been crushingly lonely you don’t understand just what a strong and self destructive emotion it can be. I am not talking about the level of loneliness you [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, June 12, 2008
Online dating is a different animal to offline dating, you don’t have little nods, winks and smiles to indicate interest in someone. Subtlety simply doesn’t work online and being proactive is called for. Getting started isn’t easy unless you are brimming with confidence but sitting quietly in the corner waiting for someone to sweep you [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 10, 2008
We all hear the horror stories of young women forced into loveless arranged marriages by their families and unfortunately this does happen but that is only one aspect of arranged marriage, albeit a very unpleasant aspect. When I came to the Middle East almost 3 years ago, with my 40 year old independent career women [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, June 8, 2008
Ladies you know when we are having a girly day out and meet someone we know and say “you’ve had your hair cut, it makes you look 10 years younger” we can actually mean what we are saying or we can mean “bloody hell woman you look like an old hag”?! We know the difference [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, June 7, 2008
Arrogance is one of my pet hates, it is also a very unattractive quality in a date. There is a big difference between being confident and self assured and simply being arrogant and rude. Talking down to a waiter or shop assistant doesn’t make you look confident and wealthy, it makes you look like the [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Divorce often leaves us in a social vacuum, we no longer have the social circle we once had as singles and it is difficult to socialise with our married friends as we usually share these with our ex. Divorce also often leaves us with diminished confidence and the years of marriage have blunted our dating [...]
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Wednesday, July 23, 2008
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