Archive for the 'The first date' Category

Playgirl glory

Friday, December 28th, 2007

It took five months of occasional email exchanges to finally meet. It was worth the wait.
Why so long? He had been traveling the world for a non-profit project he founded. He was in the States infrequently during the past year, and even more rarely at his home in my area.
As part of getting to know [...]

“I’m a nerd!”

Wednesday, December 26th, 2007

So said the professor with a Ph.D. and several masters degrees. My Google search revealed a page (not written by him) that called him “a famed professor” in his area of study. Other sites also lauded him. So I thought perhaps he was being modest when saying he was a nerd as he pursued me [...]

Are you a generous conversationalist?

Sunday, December 9th, 2007

This weekend I had the opportunity to be with a handful of extremely smart, highly accomplished executive women friends. I noticed two things about our conversations:

Some of the women add to the conversation only what they think would be of interest to others, not whatever crosses their mind at the moment.
Some of the women are [...]

Good first-date advice from a gay man

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

The following was written by Brian Rzepczynski, “The Gay Love Coach” but the concepts apply to heterosexual relationships as well. I thought his concepts were so good, I wanted to share them with you (with his permission). Change the gender references to what fits for you.
“The First Date: Assessing His Boyfriend Potential”
You sit on the [...]

The zest test

Friday, October 26th, 2007

An attractive, successful, intelligent, sexy 48-year-old man told me on our first date that he’d only had two other dates in the last 3.5 years. I asked why.
“I’m not attracted to most women.”
This was unusual, as I’d heard that many men are attracted to a lot of women who meet their physical criteria. So I [...]