Archive for September, 2008

how can I help someone addicted to online dating?

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
Online Dating
Steve asked:


It’s my ex-wife, she’s raising my children, but on the computer for several hours a day, even loosing sleep to do it more. My children miss their mother, and she’s right there.

William

Is there anyway to tell the difference between real people and scammers in online dating?

Sunday, September 28th, 2008
Online Dating
monique k asked:


Are there any obvious tell-tale signs? Also, how can you find a reputable dating site?

Caden

Can you please critique my Online Dating Ad?

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
Seniors Online Dating
THS asked:


43/Male
Balding (Bozo like balding)
Overweight by 50lbs (from beer and fast food)
Employed (was recently promoted to senior dishwasher)
Has a home (with parents)
Very ambitious (trying to reach 7th level on HALO 3)

I’m stuck after this….any help?

Mary

Do you think an online dating website would make a good bussiness?

Sunday, September 21st, 2008
Online Dating
crap m asked:


is it worth spending money on?

Jessica

How is online dating supposed to work if both people are far from each other?

Monday, September 15th, 2008
Online Dating
cubensis2k asked:


I have tried online dating, most people I meet are many miles away. Do some people think that i will be so attracted and madly in love with them that even though we could meet for a week or so a year that we could have a successful relationship? if I am in California and she is in Maine, it isn’t a trip you make every weekend.

Richard

How much do foundation university research assistants in Turkey earn on average? Any online resource about it?

Saturday, September 13th, 2008
Seniors Online Dating
Jean asked:


I would like to become a scholar, I have been studying for a while and I am a senior now. As such, I would like to know how much a research assistant in Turkey, working at a foundation university, earns on average. I failed to find any up-to-date information on the net.

Maricel

Ladies: How do I break out of my dating funk and skepticism?(SERIOUS answers only)?

Saturday, September 6th, 2008
Seniors Online Dating
McGlovin(tm) asked:


Ladies: How do I break out of my dating funk and skepticism?(SERIOUS answers only)?

Additional Details
My senior year of college, I got friendly with and ended up losing my virginity to a woman I knew for about 2 years. Her and I had become friends that fall prior and started to hang out and be real platonic. It came out that she had had a crush on me since she first me met me. Now I deem my self the average guy, having hits and misses in the dating department in college. I was a late bloomer, my first kiss and gf not until I was 19, and then I met other women and played the field quite a bit and briefly dated a few other girls, until I met her.

Several weeks into us dating or whatever you’d like I call it, she invited me and two of her friends up to her parents’ cottage for New Years. A lot of the time, I felt kind of left out, but she paid attention to me when it was just her and I. I had kind of known one of her friends, and we all talked alot, but she ended up telling a female friend of mine that I acted very out of character at a restaurant we went to, swearing up a st

Dec 29, 2007 at 8:34 am
storm in public and causing her to be embarrassed. The god honest truth was that i was eating my meal, bored and silent because every time I tried to talk to her and her friends I felt left out still. Plus, the male friend of hers was flirting with her the whole weekend and paid for my meal! When I offered and he turned it down! I was like ‘what is going on here’? So finally, in the car after she was like “No, nothing’s wrong” She was extremely silent like something happened to her. And she was quiet. This REALLY concerned me because the night before I had developed more feelings for her that I wanted her to be my girlfriend. She ended up telling a close female friend of mine that I acted “very out of character”, didn’t offer money to pay for things (All NOT true), and didn’t help clean up (when I cleaned up lots). She also told her very personal things about my performance (that I will not share,

Dec 29, 2007 at 8:39 am
No guy would want to share it, when this same girl, to my face, told me it was ok. And that when she told me she just wanted to be friends that New Year’s Day it was “ok” and understandable because she just wanted to go back to being friends. After we hooked up NewYear’s night?

Look, im not an innocent victim. My close female friend I mentioned, her and I had feelings for each other, but weren’t together during my “fling” with the girl who bothered me. She ended up telling people that I ignored her pleas for help with her asthma and just “ate pudding” when the truth was I never knew she was asthmatic and she told me she was allergic to a pillow and I had stayed up with her and gave her water and took care of her.
She ended up telling her friends and people around campus that I had called her a whore and stuff when I never talked **** about her to her friends, and I felt that my rep at college was sort of ruined. I had known lots of people. but never felt the same.

Dec 29, 2007 at 8:41 am
Any rate, the four years after finishing school ALL my dates haven’t gone past the first. I’ve tried online and meeting in person and nothing has worked. I haven’t had anything resembling anything since and Im flustered. I still have “problems” with that area of my anatomy.
Im currently in therapy for this and while I realize and respect the fact that women have been through loads worse with men and still carry on better than I have, I am not going to make excuses or apologize for my stance on this. The whole ordeal has left me kind of traumatized, there’s not a day I don’t think about it in 4 years, and im 27 now.

I want to break free and move on, but I feel I can’t. I feel like ALL women are like that. On my dates I am nice, polite, personable and not overly flirty. Just “right” flirty. I never get returned calls. I feel much better having got this off my chest, but I felt this girl ruined my life.
I haven’t been with another girl sexually since.
How do I break out of my shel

Richard