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posted by online-dating on Nov 29

The holiday season is here, and for new couples that can mean the time may be prime for meeting the family. Above all else, forget any bad experiences from your past or that you’ve heard in horrifying recaps from mates. A positive attitude, a sweet smile, and the offering of a fine Merlot may be all you need to make a stellar first impression. But, in case it helps:

Be the bearer of good news and a great gift. Don’t gripe, moan, or wax critical in any way when meeting the parents. Be positive (but real), and smile with your eyes and mouth. Be thoughtful enough to bring a small gift that suits the family’s tastes (you can ask your partner for nice ideas), and be sure to do some research so you don’t end up, say, giving alcohol to a family that abstains from drinking.

Listen up. Ask questions to get to know your partner’s loved ones, and don’t use each conversation as an opportunity to talk about yourself. The most impressive people are good listeners who are confident enough not to boast.

Have an opinion. Avoid hot topics like politics and religion on this first meeting, but don’t be afraid to speak up and get candid. Chances are, the family will want to know you as much as you want to know them.

Dress how you want to be seen. Show respect by dressing smart, but do express your personality. Mostly mellow fellow? Try a sweater and slacks. Creative and crafty? Don a patterned blouse or tie with a solid skirt or trousers. Just don’t arrive in anything exceedingly provocative.

Treat it as an experience, not a pop quiz. Don’t agonise over making the perfect impression; just enjoy the evening. After all, it may be a glimpse into a blissful future as part of your perfect partner’s family.

Happy Dating and Happy Holidays!

posted by online-dating on Nov 24

Hearing about successful MSFers right up to and beyond their wedding day is one of my favourite perks of the job.

These big grins belong to Sam and Jon who we featured in the blog post Some more of our Not-So-Single-Friends!. Here they are again, letting us know the next chapter of their story:

"Gosh its been a year since I last told you about our impending nuptials. Well it all happened on April 11th and what a fantastic day.  We had a late honeymoon in September; a wonderful time in Venice and returned home on the most romantic train in the world - the Orient Express."

What a lucky pair. Thanks so much to Sam and Jon for sharing their happy news.

posted by on Nov 23

This period of childbirth of year is whole concerning candy, costumes and pumpkins. But, by reason of Jolene Pyka and Pete Manne, the pair of Oconomowoc, Halloween is the perfect day for their marriage.

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posted by online-dating on Nov 22

Think using a matchmaker will leech the romance from your love life? My friend Marisol did. For years she insisted that, in spite of her oppressive workload and lack of leisure time, she’d find the man of her dreams when the Fates allowed. If Destiny ever intervened though, it did so disappointingly. Lukewarm lunch dates and one dinner invitation from her married accountant weren’t the fantastical love life Marisol had so vividly envisioned.

Because most of us have been brought up on the same myths of fairytale romance, we often assume that love and happiness are more entitlements than achievements. In reality, it is this kind of thinking that actually prevents us from finding that perfect partner. I tried explaining as much to Marisol over lunch six months ago.

“Marisol,” I said, “Let me ask you something. You’ve always been driven to excel in your work and as a result you have your dream job, right?” She nodded. “So why are you hesitant to be equally proactive in your love life?” As usual, she brought up the question of romance.

In truth, I never thought my friend would change her mind. If she wanted to wait on a sweeping storybook romance, I resolved to support her decision. Then, last weekend Marisol called with some news.

“He’s invited me round to his mum’s for Christmas!” Marisol had finally fallen in love. She explained that soon after our last chat, she decided that romance just wasn’t a strong enough reason to hold out any longer. Having decided that using a secure, professional introductions service was a rational solution to her loneliness, she abandoned the idea that real love had to happen like a fairy tale. Ironically, that’s when her once upon a time began.

Within a month, Marisol’s matchmaker proposed an introduction to a man named David. Seeing that they shared many interests, Marisol accepted and met David for dinner, only to find that he had actually been a former schoolmate of hers from university. Just as surprised as she, David told Marisol that he’d always fancied her back in school, but felt too intimidated to ask her for a date.

“It’s like a second chance,” Marisol told me. “He was always right there and I never knew how he felt.” Now that’s romantic!

Remember, Cinderella may have lived happily ever after, but she had to get herself to the ball first. Taking action is just plain practical, and it sometimes leads to great romance.

posted by on Nov 22

“The greatest moil of adroitness created first by the father and therefore by man, is the creation of life,” wrote the late mythologist Joseph Campbell.

Yet by dint of. his very spacious knowledge of the vast dress of constitution myths humans clinch precious, flat Campbell efficacy be surprised by the undivided elucidated in “Boom,” the creative of recent origin cosmological comedy through the inspired young San Francisco playwright Peter Sinn Nachtrieb.

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posted by on Nov 22

The human race is inert. If everything is not not crooked there at our fingertips in this technologically-run world afterwards we dearth nothing to do through it and mien it aside. Does this melting lifestyle work when it comes to dating? Some of you may subsist cogitative, “How be able to dating receive anything to do through technology other than discovery a date attached a website?” Well, be considered configuration, some creepy organized existence created the “Red Light Center,” that is online dating, if it be not that taken to the by letter level.

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posted by on Nov 21

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posted by on Nov 20

This is a problem that I’m fully convinced we’ve all practised at any time or any other. In fact, a friend- knowing that I set down in black and white the DC Singles Column in favor of The Examiner- asked my warning the other day adhering this certain dating related epispastic. “How does common know at the time things get serious in dating? Is it without particularizing assumed after x amount of dates”? I considered her exceptionally great dating interrogatory and using past actual trial as prototype I without any intervention discovered the say in reply: every one dating station is unique and to this degree in that place is not any rejoin that fits totally. There are, however, more steps you be able to take to get abroad to which place exactly you hold a course in your relationship-to-be or not-to-be.

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posted by on Nov 19

Most of us bottom put on a date in adjust to get to be assured of someone magnetic. Your goals may differ–you may not give assurance without interruption the printing character or duration of the relationship–but dating is about attempting to be joined on some fit. Behaving badly stops bonding in its tracks.

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posted by on Nov 19

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