Leave The Past Behind

Anybody who is out there in the dating world comes with baggage. It is not something that you can help. Having past relationships is just part of the dating package deal. The idea is to live and learn, drawing lessons from your past while productively moving forward into the future. Hopefully any breakups that you endure are not terribly tumultuous and only the result of two people growing apart, but no matter what the circumstances, you cannot keep dwelling on past relationships while seeking to forge a brighter dating future. Doing so will only keep you chained to the past and mired in some form of misery.

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The Distance Divide

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Relationships are such delicate little things. There are so many factors that go into making them work or tearing them apart. You are a fool if you think that you can reach a good place in your relationship and just coast from that point on. Relationships are like a garden that needs constant watering. No matter how many years have gone by, even the sturdiest of unions can begin drying up. When it comes to friends dating, a whole new level of complications gets thrown into the mix, but like all other relationships, the geographic distance between two people can greatly impact their chances of survival.

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Friendly Lovers

People enter into relationships for all sorts of reasons, some of them good, some of them bad. No, it does not make rational sense that anyone would commit to someone for anything other than a very valid reason, but people are very often not remotely rational, especially when it comes to sexual or dating relationships. A lot of people are woefully insecure and desperately in need of someone — anyone — they can claim as their own and show off like a trophy. But the best relationships are always based on genuine friendship, and this is an idea that will never go away.

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Curious Locals

Hometown dating

Dating is something that every one of us can relate to at some point, on some level. Whether we are serial daters or have just been in one relationship our entire lives, we all know the feelings and procedures involved in the dating situation. We can all relate to the first time that our eyes fell upon someone, the butterflies involved during numerous stages of a relationship, and the simple acts of just going out to a dinner or a movie with someone that we care about. And if we are doing all of this in our hometown or even just a place that we have called home for a good while, the prying eyes and gossipy chatter of fellow residents can sometimes be a drag. You can feel like your every move is being monitored and scrutinized.

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Dating Overbooking

We all know someone like them. The person who just cannot be alone on a Friday or Saturday night, who simply has to be dating someone at all times. This is a problem common to both genders, and while they usually pass themselves off in public as exceedingly confident and self-satisfied individuals, the truth of the matter is usually quite the opposite. The person who does not know how to be alone has some serious self-esteem issues, and some people take this need to be out and about dating everyone in sight to extremes. What they wind up doing is overbooking their dates. Like an airline sometimes does to passengers. And just as passengers tend to get steamed, so do the jilted dates.

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Full Circle

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If you are one of those daring people who has crossed the dangerous line of friends dating and lived to tell the tale, you know very well how bizarre and amusing the entire ride can be until you emerge on the other side of the tunnel right back where you both started. These types of relationships are the stuff great movies are made of, so fraught with drama and comedy and even some temporary heartache. In the end, though, it all makes for a great story and life lesson, even if you sometimes are not sure exactly what lesson you learned and whether it would have kept you from making the same mistake twice. Sometimes you just have to throw yourself into the friends dating fire and hope for the best.

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Dating Benefits The Young

Seeing as the net is so much very centered around the young, for the young and developed and run by the young we can be pretty much assured that something like Facebook works wonders keeping grandma informed of her grandchild’s pictures but really the young people on the site are looking mainly to get laid! Dating, socializing, getting on line to create and be part of a community is a young person’s game. We can teach or divorced dad how to click a mouse and our teacher might indeed be able to fill-put a profile, but if you are over forty the world of the net has pretty much passed you by and dating with it….or at the very least you need to temper you hopes and dreams.

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Can We Have A Little Sex Please

A little sex

We need sex online even if we’re not online looking for sex. It doesn’t have to be mutual camming masturbation we get into or even the obligatory one-handed chat but we all need a little tickle and tease every now and again with our online dating search, and a tickle and tease coming from that online dating search, to keep our interest in that online dating search. (more…)

More Responsibility?

Before cells phones, emails, and tweets how exactly did we make a date, what’s more, how did we keep it? Half way driving to a girl’s house to pick her up or a woman going on her first date with a fella, there was no cell phone for a late boyfriend to call and alert his girl or a way for a girl to phone a girlfriend-or have them phone her-if half through the proceedings she wished to end the date. The classic standing-someone-up would earn you a clear distinction of someone not to be trusted.

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Sexless

Sexless love

There are a lot of people with diseases and disabilities that can not have Sex. The don’t want to stop dating, they want the love and affection a serious permanent relation offers but they can not or wont have sex. Coming out and telling someone, especially if you are a woman having to tell a man that you don’t want to have sex with him is extremely difficult and often it is a conversation that ends in a break up. (more…)

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