6 Tips on Taking Your Online Date Offline

6 tips on getting your online crush to meet you offline - and why sooner is better than later

I read a rather scathing article yesterday in the UK's Guardian newspaper on the pitfalls of online dating. As a long-term professional in the industry - and as someone who met their current SO online - I really wanted to write a positive post today about finding love on the 'net. Interestingly, the crux of this piece was the assertion that you can fall for the 'details' of someone's online persona - their interests, their physical apperance, their political beliefs - but those details don't tell you anything about the man/woman behind the profile.

3 Places Not To Let Your Guard Down On A First Date [EXPERT]

Learn 3 opportunities that unknowingly expose us to danger on a first date in an Online Dating world

Wow! What a wonderful feeling. You've found a connection to someone you've met on an Online Dating site, and you've agreed to a first date. This is such an exciting time in your romantic journey and I'm thrilled for you! Dear Friend, as happy as I know you feel, I'm going to ask you for a personal favor. I care for your safety, and I've been in some first date situations that at best would be described as unnerving. We go to such lengths to protect ourselves before the initial meeting.

Warning: Love In 10 Words Or Less [EXPERT]

Poetic warning against settling for less than we deserve in this February Month of Love.

February - the Month of Love. For singles hoping to be couples, February can be a month of loneliness and agony instead. For centuries, poets have captured this pain with a romantic sincerity. This pain is powerful and can make us do the most ridiculous things in the name of finding Happily Ever After, especially with so many potential mistakes being available to us at the stroke of a keyboard.

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Love Bytes: 3 Ways Yoga Can Improve Your Sex Life

Plus, 10 ways to know you've been put in the "friend zone."

What you can tell from his medicine cabinet. Online dating tips all women need. Slut-shaming from Joan Rivers. How to know you've been put in the friend zone. How to give a naughty gift. How introvert-extrovert couples can succeed. Love lessons from romance novels. Don't judge all men by a few crummy boyfriends. How yoga can improve your sex life. What to do when the sex is terrible. Some interesting "facts" about post-coital passing out.

Avoid The E-lationship [EXPERT]

In online dating, the goal is to get dates, not pen pals. Ask someone out in a timely fashion.

People join online dating sites for many reasons: To find an activity partner, a friend, a date, a long-term relationship, marriage, or marriage and children. Some sites are even nice enough to lay out all of these choices side-by-side for us. All it takes is the click of a button or two to list what we’d like to find in our online dating adventure. Curiously enough, “pen pal” is not an option.

Online Dating 3-Step Wink Management: Stop, Drop & Roll [EXPERT]

So you have taken the plunge, your online dating profile has been penned,and now a WINK What now?

You’ve just joined that Online Dating Site you promised in your New Year’s Resolutions, huh? You’re in your Match.com account, and you are surfing through all of the yummy and not so yummy profiles. All of a sudden... WINK! Score! Some gorgeous guy just sent you a wink - but you don’t know yet if he is of the frog or toad variety. Whoa there. Don’t do anything hasty. As cute as he may be, looks can be deceiving.

Online Dating In The Toad Kingdom [EXPERT]

5 ways to distinguish 'frogs' from 'toads' to make the most out of your online dating experience!

All toads are frogs but not all frogs are toads. In the online dating world as well in nature, toads are the fat, yucky frogs, but other types of frogs are only green and slimy - sometimes even slim, well-kept, and sort of cute. And in the online dating world as well as in nature, all toads are always gross.

5 Steps For “The Year Of You” Celebration [EXPERT]

Never look for an online date when feeling desperate. There are toads out there looking for you!

Another New Year and here you are alone - again. Who kissed you at midnight? Oh, that’s right … Uncle Charlie was running around kissing all of the single ladies at that dreaded party. And all you were thinking was Can’t wait - hope he uses mouthwash this year. And here we are in 2012, and you are still alone.

The Signs of an Unavailable Man

Are you a single woman who struggles with the "unavailable man" syndrome - over and over again?

If there’s one issue that comes up again and again when I’m working with single clients, it’s the “unavailable man” dilemma. I’d say it’s the biggest issue women deal with when they’re out there dating. And there are always signs, right off the bat - but when a woman is responding to a powerful attraction (“we have such chemistry!”, “I feel like we’ve known each other forever!”), there’s a tendency to overlook things that shouldn’t be, and to, shall we say, “enhance” things th

Why You Should Take Your Chances When Online Dating [EXPERT]

Is online dating like ordering a pizza? Choose your matches without getting bogged down with choices

I'd like a large pie with extra cheese, mushrooms, sausage, and broccoli. But make sure the cheese is covering the whole pizza because I don't like baldness, and actually, why don't you hold the sausage? I'd like someone who doesn't eat processed meat. And while you're there, make sure those mushrooms are well-educated, like maybe with a master's or PhD, and as for the broccoli, can you make sure it's a certain height because I only want it if it's tall. Could I get that to go? Thanks.

The Hidden Dangers Of Online Dating [VIDEO]

What you need to know to stay safe during your online search for love.

So, you've decided you want to try online dating. Congrats! But, before you start filling out a profile, there's one more step you should follow, which is learning about the dangerous mistakes people make in the online dating world and what you need to do to keep yourself safe. 10 Reasons to Give Online Dating a Try

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