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August 31, 2005
A Great Love Affair
What does it take to make a great love affair? I’ve always wondered how they come about. I’ve been lucky to have some over the course of my life. The chemistry was cooking in each one but no two dates were the same. It would be nice to say, yes, this is the type of woman I’m attracted to. These
are the qualities I look for and the personality traits that make me smile. Unfortunately, it isn’t that easy. Finding a great love affair is like finding a pot of gold – always elusive but full of promise. Continue reading A Great Love Affair
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August 30, 2005
Breaking It Off
The hardest part of any relationship comes when it’s time to say it’s over. Making that decision is the hard part. I have a close friend who has been struggling with the idea of ending a relationship with his girlfriend. They’ve been together for close to two years. In that time, they grew so close together that they never slept apart. They shared the same friends, same jobs and the same past times. They’ve been inseparable yet somehow they’ve slipped apart.
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August 29, 2005
Saying Thanks!
I’ve always been a fan of the after-date phone call. If you had a good time you should call or write to say so. It’s only polite, isn’t it? The question is – who calls? Let’s look at this for a second. First off, one of the parties is usually responsible for asking the other party out. It could be argued that the person who asks the other person out should be responsible for calling to say thanks for the privilege of their company. Mind you, it would also be appropriate for the person being asked out to thank them after for the invitation.
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August 26, 2005
What Women Want?
You may have heard the figures that came out of a recent Playgirl magazine survey about what women find attractive in a man. First off, I thought the majority of the readers of Playgirl were men, but I admit I often don’t know my arse from a hole in the ground.
Anyway, this survey suggests the majority of women are looking for men who are scruffy and a chubby. 42% said they thought love handles were kind of sexy while 47% liked chest hair.
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August 25, 2005
A Day With a Camera
It’s picture time and I’m heading in front of the lens. When has yet to be determined, but what I do know is that I have too many old pictures around that just don’t represent the real me any more. I’m getting old! I’ve always gone on about the importance of pictures to online dating and even went on a tirade earlier today on a dating forum. Although most shared my opinion, some didn’t.
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The Poem
So I was 13 years old and madly in love with this girl who sparkled. She lit up my life like nothing or nobody I had ever experienced before. Of course, being the hopeless romantic that I was at that age, I wrote a poem that may have been a few (or seven) pages long. I’m sure it stunk. How could it be any good, right? Well you would think that 16 years later the memory would die and its existence blasted off the face of the planet. I’m sure this would be the case . . . if anyone else had written it.
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August 23, 2005
A Moment in Time
I’ve lived a lucky life, full of magical romances with great people. Although they have all come to pass, and for good reason, they will always remain special to me in some way. This past weekend I was with an ex of mine who I met and dated, if you can call it that, sometime when I was around 12 years old. It was my first year of high school and I met her through a friend who went to one of the local schools – I decided to attend a school in a different city.
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August 22, 2005
Dreaming of Family
This past weekend was amazing! I was able to get away and see some people I only get to see every blue moon. These are people I grew up with – a bunch of girls I knew from back in my hometown of Grand Valley. So much has changed and yet all the important parts have stayed the same. One of my friends, in particular, has really done it up right. She married a great guy and has a beautiful daughter and you can really see the love between them all.
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August 19, 2005
Romance & The Storm
It’s raining outside. There has been a storm here since the wee hours of the morning. I was startled to consciousness at least three times before by alarm clock woke me up, which would certainly explain why my eyes are half shut and my mind on autopilot. Personally, I love it when it rains. I like the darkness in the middle of the day. I think we may get a couple of days like this all year where I live. There’s so much atmosphere – so much character – to the world when all outside looks grim.
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August 18, 2005
Catching a Tan - Bad Advice?
I have a tan. It’s a magical tan that has lasted ten years. When I was 18, I discovered the magic of tanning beds. It started during my party years when I raved all weekend and continued the party on all week. These all-night funfests led to days spent in bed away from the sun. But when on the dance floor in the middle of the night, be it in a dilapidated warehouse or some dingy club, there were always these other party people who looked like they had just arrived from Cali.
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My Ex & My Cat
I have a cat and her name is Tas. She’s an orange tabby cat that arrived on my doorstep curtsey of an ex girlfriend about ten years ago. I named her after a character in a book I was reading at the time but the name really has no relation to this furry little feline. Actually, she’s not little at all. She’s rather large. Before you say anything, it’s not my fault! I was away for school for a number of years and she was left with my mother who though that feeding meant a dish of wet cat food and another of dry should be available at all times.
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August 16, 2005
Sex Clock Countdown!
I was chatting last night with a friend and the subject of sex came up. We started talking about how far down the line it should happen and how far down the line it has happened in the past. I can’t say that I’ve ever had a relationship that started off with sex on the first date. I really don’t think I’d want to. Normally it takes a few dates, at the very least, to get comfortable enough with someone to even consider it.
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August 15, 2005
Nothing Like The Picture
I was sitting on a dating site recently when a woman hit me up to chat. I normally don’t like to spend time having crazy conversations with strangers unless there’s a distinct possibility that more can come from it. However, I was killing time and figured why not. She had apparently just been on a date where the guy who turned up looked nothing like his picture. I’ve been there before, myself.
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August 12, 2005
Friday Night - Get Your Date On!
It's Friday night and it’s time to get your date on! I remember the days when I couldn’t be sitting home on a Tuesday night, let alone a Friday. The only thing that mattered was getting out with friends and seeing what trouble we could get up to. A Friday night in meant certain death. The only possible excuse could be that my car wasn’t working and nobody could make the trip to get me.
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The Love Blog
This is my love blog. I don’t mean a personal type of love – more universal. It’s about love in all its forms and how it affects each and every one of us on this fair planet. My love blog talks about the day-to-day trials of running a dating review site as well as general romance topics that come up from day-to-day. Someone asked me today what it was that I blog about here so this is my response. It’s all about the love, baby! And spreading it is what this blog, and my life, are all about. Spread the love!
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August 10, 2005
All for Nakedness!
I’m all for nakedness. I admire a good body as much as the next guy. But for some reason, I just can’t bring myself to be attracted to someone who’d flaunting their wares on dating sites. I’m a bit of an exhibitionist myself. I love to perform but I keep my personal details for my personal life. Some would say that blogging is baring your soul.
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August 9, 2005
A Weekend Away
It’s funny when you get the chance to reconnect with people from your past. I have a gathering coming up of people that I knew in high school and I’m really looking forward to it. I knew some of them really well – others were on the periphery. Yet for a number of years we were all connected.
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August 8, 2005
How important is a profile?
Pictures are the first thing anyone ever looks at in a dating profile. With little else left, what people have written comes second. What I want to know is what percentage of people actually read what’s written, how much stock these people put into what they read and how much effort they put into writing their own profiles. I was hit up today by a woman who stole a previous profile I had written and was now using it as her own.
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August 5, 2005
Bad Dating Ideas
Is there such a thing as a bad date brought on by a poor choice of activity? I can understand how things could be considered bad if you took your date out for a cruise around the city and the boat happened to sink. That would be bad. I could understand if you decided to go for a hot air balloon ride and ended up crashing into some trees.
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August 4, 2005
Waking Up Alone
I love living alone. It’s peaceful and I operate at my own pace. Well, that’s if my cat hasn’t put me on the agenda. When she does, I usually hear the piercing siren of her voice as she attempts to wake me up or catch my attention. It’s a sound that requires immediate action. Other than that, life runs pretty smooth. I enjoy being single but I know I prefer to be in a relationship.
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Movies & Dating
Movies have long been considered a logical place to take a date. As a youth, it seemed like one of the only places. You couldn’t drive so wherever you went had to be close to home or you had to get dropped off at a set location. A mall with a theatre was perfect for dating at that time in my life. And back then, there was so much emphasis on the possibility of making out during a movie that it turned an ordinary flick into yet another stressful youth experience.
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August 3, 2005
Contacting The Ex
What is it with ex’s who want to stay in contact? I mean, I understand that if you’ve built a connection, you might want to hold on to part of it. However, it seems only logical that there’s a cool down period. I have a friend who recently broke up with his girlfriend. They met up in a bar a couple of weeks after and she was there with her new boyfriend.
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August 1, 2005
Better to Have Loved and Lost?
I have always stood firmly behind the position that it is better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all. That is, I’ve always believed that right up until the point of the breakup. When my heart it getting destroyed through the love-grinder, I tend to have a different opinion. I’ve noticed this in many areas of my life, most recently after the death of a friend.
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