Archive for September, 2007

Entering the Land of Testosterone

Sunday, September 30th, 2007

I’m experimenting with trying to meet men in the “real” world. I’m inserting myself into places where gobs of possible potential suitors gather. Today I entered the Land of Testosterone.
“Where is that?” you ask.
A professional football game.
A friend had an extra ticket so I attended our local team’s game. I thought this would give me [...]

Cruising at festivals

Saturday, September 29th, 2007

Our neighborhood is hosting a city-wide Italian festival today, so I decided to use it as an opportunity to cruise for men. After all, we’ve been discussing how hanging out where people you are likely to like in the “real” world (vs. Internet) is a better option. So I wanted to experiment to see if [...]

Social-circle accountability — a missing link in online dating

Friday, September 28th, 2007

We’ve heard — and sometimes experienced — the horror stories of midlife dating. When we think that middle-aged men and women should behave like adults they flummox us with their adolescent behaviors.
Many of these bad boy/girl stories come from meeting folks through Internet dating sites. If you’ve been around for more than a day, you [...]

Avoid frivolous talk on a date

Thursday, September 27th, 2007

Frivolous: unworthy of serious attention; trivial; of little value.

One of the consistent complaints men make about women is their incessant talking. And it’s just not that there is no silence. But women more than men talk and talk and talk about things of no consequence to the men. In fact, she will go into [...]

Give yourself more dating happiness

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

My friends at LifeTwo.com asked me to participate as one of five columnists in exercises for their “Happiness Week.” I’ve written about happiness in dating a few times:

Do you know what will make you happy?
Are you a happy dater?

Let’s take a look at how we can meld things that make us happy into our dating [...]