Category: Dating

Playing the Field: Planning a Sporty Date Night

So you’re finally ready to lace back up your dating shoes and play the field. Planning a fun date at a sporting event can be a great way to break the ice, stay entertained and have a memorable evening without blowing your budget or inviting too many awkward silences—as can often be the case with… Continue reading Playing the Field: Planning a Sporty Date Night

The Perilous First Dates: What You Need to Know

The first date is one of the most perilous parts of any relationship. People micro-analyze each other’s behavior and each tries to be on their best behavior. However, the good news is that peoples’ true selves are betrayed in ways they may not be aware of. Pay attention to some of these and you can… Continue reading The Perilous First Dates: What You Need to Know

When Parents Resume Dating – and What Their Children Have to Say

When our children were young, it seems like everything that we parents did was “right” – at least in their eyes. We were the omnipotent heroes, the sageS, the wisest among the wise. We had all of the answers before the questions were even asked. We fixed the impossible and solved the improbable. It was… Continue reading When Parents Resume Dating – and What Their Children Have to Say

7 Tips for Overcoming First Date Jitters

Whether you’re 15 or 50, first date jitters are real and can even be uncomfortable. How can you better handle them? How can you reduce your anxiety and have a better first date? However, there are some simple and natural ways to deal with them. Here are my tips: Picture yourself in the situation ahead of… Continue reading 7 Tips for Overcoming First Date Jitters

How to Date a Widow or Widower (It’s Really Not Scary!)

As both a grief recovery expert and a widow with more than her fair share of post-widowhood dating experience, I have been interviewed, written about and presented countless workshops on dating after loss. Since I firmly believe that should a widowed choose it, dating, companionship and love can again be a part of life, I… Continue reading How to Date a Widow or Widower (It’s Really Not Scary!)

Dating the Grown-Up Way: Why It’s Better Over 40

Young love is so widespread each Valentine’s Day that it threatens to deplete Cupid’s stock of arrows. But single men and women with a few extra decades under their belts – and perhaps a little gray in their hair – are also in the market for romance, and they likely have a better understanding of… Continue reading Dating the Grown-Up Way: Why It’s Better Over 40

Seniors and First Date Sex

The most sexually bereft men on the planet might just be recently divorced senior guys, because most haven’t been sexual for a long while in failed marriages. Some newbies date hoping to relieve their pent-up sexual needs, but their single-minded focus renders them first date disasters. Senior women know their dating responsibilities don’t include being… Continue reading Seniors and First Date Sex

Dinner Is Not A Smart First Date

No Fantasies While nearly every senior dater wants romance, it’s a serious mistake to think a first date should be romantic. First dates are to get acquainted, not fall in love. And if you’re a senior who still doesn’t understand a first date is an interview, you’ll continue squandering valuable time on second and third… Continue reading Dinner Is Not A Smart First Date

A Matchmaker’s Seven Steps to Finding Love

Read any book on how to succeed in business or about the traits of highly effective people and it will quickly become clear that there are common habits/ behaviors required to succeed. What if we applied those same high standards to our personal life – dating in particular? Below, Dana Michel, founder and president of… Continue reading A Matchmaker’s Seven Steps to Finding Love

Make Your Dating Life Healthy Again!

You’ve made the big decision to start dating again. You’ve heard about all the health benefits of good relationships: reducing the risk of stress, depression, even heart disease. But basically, you’d just like a guy in your life again. All your friends are telling you the only way to go is to get on Match… Continue reading Make Your Dating Life Healthy Again!

Dating with Cancer: When Do You Share Your Diagnosis?

By Tracy Maxwell

This article, which originally appeared on DemosHealth.com, is adapted from Being Single, With Cancer.

“At what point in a new relationship is it appropriate to reveal your status as a cancer survivor?”

If you have ever wondered what the right answer to this question is, you’re not alone. Many survivors ask the same thing when dating after cancer or during treatment.

Is Your Online Profile Too Revealing?

By Judith Bitterli

Editor’s Note: Internet dating is serious business. According to the Statistics Brain Research Institute, the internet dating scene generated $1.049 billion in revenue for the year 2012. And online dating sites aren’t the only place where potential mates are checking each other out. AVG Technologies, an online security firm, found in a survey that one in three young baby boomers (45-54) were also using social media such as Facebook and Twitter to research a person they might be interested in.

The Eight Stages of Relationships: Part Two

This is part two of a series on the predictable stages of a relationship. To read part one, click here.

How a couple negotiates the fourth stage — Power Struggle — determines what stages they will encounter next. I cannot stress enough how important it is to negotiate the power struggle stage successfully in order to keep your relationship alive and thriving.

The Eight Stages of Relationships: Part One

Relationships are predictable. All of them go through stages as they grow and develop. And this includes romantic relationships.

What stage is your relationship in?

Or, if you are not in a relationship, at what stage do your relationships always end and why?

Identifying the stages of your relationship and the attributes, stumbling blocks and joys of each stage can help you negotiate through them with more success, peace and love.