Posted by Patrick Woolmer on Thu 13th September 2007 at 02:43 AM, Filed in General Dating
Commitment is something you can’t take lightly. It means no more lewd behavior with strangers you meet in a bar… no more being selfish…
Before you decide whether to commit try and answer these questions together… and be truthful to yourself!
1. Where do you want to live?
Commitment to engagement and marriage is great, but where will you live after the cake is cut? You’ll need to compromise, particularly if one of you envisions an apartment in the city while the other foresees a white picket fence and labrador retriever.
2. How will you merge your finances?
If you’re planning to be together then your finances will come together too. Will you open up joint accounts or still maintain separate bank accounts? You’ll also need to start thinking about a budget together, particularly your ability to save.
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Posted by Patrick Woolmer on Wed 12th September 2007 at 02:21 AM, Filed in General Dating
Peter Todd, a cognitive scientist at Indiana University recently undertook some truly interesting research about what we truly look for in a date. The long and short of it is that we blokes all desire ‘beauty’, and women (the choosier ones) look for security and commitment.
A great example….
This is no different therefore to when we were beating the hell out of each other as cavemen for the most beautiful ape woman! In fact, all mammals seem to follow the same trait, yes even the Duck Billed Platypus!
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More than 20 million people in the states are logging on for love out of 90 million singles says Online Dating Magazine, an Internet Web site dedicated to the industry.
This then results in a massive 120,000 marriages each year, and it’s rising.
Have you got a story about meeting your partner online and ending up hitched?
Posted by Patrick Woolmer on Fri 7th September 2007 at 03:49 AM, Filed in General Dating
A recent Houston-based study found that Women seeking suitors on the Web take sexual risks once they meet. But women who date online are very likely to take precautions to protect their personal safety when first meeting a man face-to-face
The ladies surveyed went to great lengths to screen online acquaintances before meeting them, nearly a third reported having sex on the first date and three-quarters of those said they did not use condoms, according to the study by The University of Texas School of Public Health.
Those behaviors reflect a “virtual intimacy” the women developed with men online before meeting them in person, said the study’s author, Paige Padgett.
“They may not think of it as being risky sex,” said Padgett, a research associate who specializes in epidemiology and sex research. “They don’t see it as a one-night stand, even though it might turn out that way, because they really feel they have a relationship with this man.”
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Posted by Bob Bulmer on Thu 6th September 2007 at 04:18 AM, Filed in General Dating
A New York State University team recently quizzed over 1,000 students, finding women place a big emphasis on kissing.
They use kissing as a way of assessing the recipient as a potential partner, and later to maintain intimacy and to check the status of a relationship.
But men placed less importance on it, using it to increase the likelihood of sex, Evolutionary Psychology reported.
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