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Single Parent Dating
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Great First Dates and Horror Stories – CONTEST WINNER

Posted on June 10th, 2008 | 16 comments

The Dad’s House I ROCKED THE HOUSE: First Date Tips and Horror Stories Contest has come to a close. Eighteen self-selecting bloggers submitted entries for a chance to win the $25 Amazon eCard First Prize and $20 eCard Second Prize.
There can only be one true champ (scroll to the bottom for that result). But in [...]

Who Needs Protection? It’s Only a One Night Stand

Posted on June 4th, 2008 | 44 comments

While promoting Mary Pols’s new book, Accidentally on Purpose, SingleMomSeeking’s Rachel Sarah recently blogged about the event that led to Mary’s child:
Then, there’s this one-night stand with an adorable but jobless guy ten years her junior — and, oops, they didn’t use a condom.
Oops? Excuse me, but I think that qualifies for more than an [...]

Supermarket Dating – Cure for the Common Online Date

Posted on June 3rd, 2008 | 17 comments

Suffering from a common online date? Symptoms include:
• Coffee date drudgery – you meet (ignoring all other available singles in the café because this person’s online checkboxes matched yours), and you go through your standard Q&A bull session like it’s a job interview because you haven’t learned how to pump up your [...]

What’s More Natural Than Nature? – Confessions of a Serial Online Dater, part 3

Posted on May 20th, 2008 | 62 comments

Want to go on a hike?
The question seemed innocuous enough, or so I thought when I emailed it to Nature Girl, a woman I met on Yahoo personals. We had passed the initial stages of online romance with flying colors:
• We liked each other’s photos – and we trusted they were recent and accurate (i.e. not [...]

Sexy Flirty Dirty Text Messages

Posted on May 10th, 2008 | 30 comments

Wanna wrestle?
And so began some flirty, dirty text messages sent to a sexy female friend of mine by a man she knew and had once dated. Only problem, they’d broken up 5 months before. Not only had she moved on from that relationship, she barely remembered his name. Sending a dirty text message can be [...]

How to Start Dating a Single Dad

Posted on May 7th, 2008 | 21 comments

Dear David
I met a guy this past weekend for drinks at a wine bar and we had a great time. There were definitely sparks, and I’d like to see him again. How do I let him know I’m interested? I already sent an email thanking him for the evening. Should I call him? btw – [...]

An Online Dating Success Story

Posted on April 22nd, 2008 | 7 comments

Who says online dating doesn’t work? I admit, I was one of the nay-sayers. In eight years of divorce, I tried some of the most popular online dating sites – match.com, yahoo personals, eharmony, chemistry.com, salon.com, nerve.com, everything but matchmaking by DNA. The experience left me jilted. I became wary of online dating expert advice [...]