Dad’s House

Dating & Parenting by a Single Dad

Craigslist Dating for Women

Posted on October 23rd, 2008 | 20 comments

Think Craigslist dating is for low-lifes? Think again. A recent email from a Dad’s House female reader says it’s not only great, it’s ridiculously empowering. And I’m not at all surprised.
I’ve long been a proponent of Craigslist dating. While paid matchmaking sites might overall have higher quality clientele (though that’s an arguable point), the approach [...]

Online Dating Expectations

Posted on September 29th, 2008 | 46 comments

The single mom who dreamed about me, found my blog, and has been chatting with me ever since admits that she is nervous about meeting me in real life. (She’ll be in the Bay Area next week.) She’s never done the online dating thing. She doesn’t know what to expect.
That makes her the opposite of [...]

Craigslist Dating – Watch Out for Spam

Posted on September 9th, 2008 | 13 comments

(My apologies if you saw this post in your feed yesterday. It went out a day early, then I pulled it back. Kind of like Entertainment Weekly reporting on the new Harry Potter movie a year too soon…)
Ah, Craigslist. That online Mecca of all things bartered and traded – tickets, bikes, furniture, jobs, apartment leases. [...]

Where’s the Romance?

Posted on August 18th, 2008 | 25 comments

A reader recently asked, with so many booty call and one-night-stand posts on my blog, do I truly want to be in a relationship? Others have asked the same question, and so I’ve chosen to respond in this post.
First of all – I actually don’t write about booty all that often. Take a look [...]

When Dirty Text Messages Turn Clean

Posted on August 15th, 2008 | 26 comments

Who are you?
So read a text message I received from a woman I’d slept with a month before. Our first date at a coffee house had turned into booty in bed. Turns out she was a newly divorced woman and wanted rebound sex. As a single dad in between dating relationships, I’d been happy to [...]

Rebound Sex Coffee Date

Posted on July 28th, 2008 | 28 comments

Before we even met for coffee, 34 year-old SoCal Divorced Hottie let me know that she wasn’t ready for a serious relationship. She was merely dipping her toe in the dating pool, looking for something low key.
She was new to online dating and had exchanged emails with only a handful of men. Most of them [...]

Dating Tips for 40-Something Men

Posted on July 15th, 2008 | 31 comments

David Mott is on vacation this week, and guest bloggers have the keys to Dad’s House. The party continues today as Lance from HoneyAndLance.com hangs out at the pool and offers dating advice for 40-something men… (btw - if that brunette is still in the Dad’s House pool when I get home, she can stay [...]