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Wednesday, November 03, 2021 - 3:21 PM
This week kicks off what I like to call the "Playoffs of Matchmaking". For all intents and purposes Thanksgiving is the first holiday of the Holiday Season where family and friends gather around a dinner table and usually start asking, "So are you seeing anyone?"
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Wednesday, May 02, 2018 - 2:52 PM
If you haven’t heard, Match and Bumble are suing each other in what can be described as nothing less than a hostile takeover by the larger, more dominant incumbent. In order to understand what brought these two to blows you have to first understand the machinations of Match.
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Wednesday, October 11, 2017 - 6:30 PM
Dating websites have changed the way couples meet. Now evidence is emerging that this change is influencing levels of interracial marriage and even the stability of marriage itself.
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Friday, July 14, 2017 - 5:27 PM
Breakups are rarely easy. It’s even more difficult when personal or shared items need to be returned after the relationship has ended. Personal Space sought out one of the top relationship experts and former Tough Love host, Steve Ward, to divulge exactly how to have those awkward conversations with an ex.
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Tuesday, March 14, 2017 - 12:49 PM
As a matchmaker and dating coach, I classify people into one of two categories. They're either relationship oriented or not. Many people, men and women alike, truly believe they are fit for a relationship. They think they have everything going for them. They're healthy emotionally, physically, spiritually and financially. They want to have a traditional, nuclear family in a two parent household where both of them can grow as individuals and together as one. But there is one key difference between the relationship oriented people out there, and everyone else.
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Saturday, March 11, 2017 - 9:32 PM
I’m hard pressed to find anyone who will disagree that there is a gap between the number of marriage minded women in the US and the number of marriage minded men. But that gap is widening, and widening at an accelerating rate. Here’s why.
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Wednesday, October 12, 2016 - 1:41 AM
It’s no relationship secret that having friends in common can improve a couple’s bond. But what if your social circles don’t overlap? Not to worry, says a team of psychologists from the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada: Sharing Frank and Claire Underwood (or Ross and Rachel, or Jim and Pam) may work just as well.
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Thursday, September 01, 2016 - 12:07 PM
Your parents probably told you never to bring up religion or politics at the dinner table. They probably told you that doing so could illicit ideologies from the guests that, when spoken aloud, might inspire vocalized riots in between courses. They probably also told you that these topics, above any others, should absolutely never, under any circumstances, be raised while on a first or second, maybe even third, date. Your parents have most likely changed their minds this year—the year of the Hillary Clinton–Donald Trump 2016 presidential election.
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Monday, August 08, 2016 - 2:06 PM
People on Tinder are more likely to think of themselves as sex objects than people who don't use the app. Put yourself on Tinder, and you might end up with a date—or a crippling case of negative thoughts about yourself.
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Friday, August 05, 2016 - 1:03 PM
The other day I was sitting on a train with a friend as she flicked through profiles on Bumble, an online dating service in which women have to reach out to men first. I watched her swipe left to reject a professional football team's worth of New York-area hipsters, jocks and nerds. Some were disqualified for being basic-looking bros with too-big arm muscles, and some for trying too hard to be hip, whether emphasizing their DJ gigs or having super hipster photos.
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Tuesday, June 14, 2016 - 8:20 PM
Oh hey. Remember when the world finally came up with the term ‘ghosting’, and we finally had a way to describe all the dates that had disappeared from our lives? It was great. We had a shorthand for our anguish. What a wonderful time to be alive, we said, sobbing into a plate of nachos after another failed relationship.
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Wednesday, April 27, 2016 - 4:54 PM
Sensitive and less emotionally intelligent people are more likely to be vulnerable to online dating scams says a study presented today at the British Psychological Society's Annual Conference in Nottingham.Lead author Dr Martin Graff of the University of South Wales said: “Perpetrators of dati...
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Saturday, April 02, 2016 - 7:35 PM
Narcissistic behaviors are often inflexible, self-centered, vain, and egotistical. No matter how nice or caring some narcissists may appear, it is important to understand that this facade is likely to fade if you challenge these narcissists, go contrary to them, or do not give them what they want wh...
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Friday, April 01, 2016 - 1:25 PM
Dating has always been an odd experience. There are rules, but nobody knows them. There are special codes, but nobody has a cipher. Yet, somehow, unless you're in your 20s, things are weirder than they've ever been.I've always felt dating was a weird experience in general, but somehow, coming back t...
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Thursday, March 31, 2016 - 11:44 AM
If you're young and single, chances are you're rejecting potential dates left and right on apps like Tinder, Bumble and OkCupid.It's a brutal virtual world. Hundreds of people are whittled down to a few in minutes. In the seconds you lingered on one person's profile, four pictures and an ambiguous j...
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Tuesday, March 29, 2016 - 10:00 PM
A new study suggests that people should get married between the ages of 28 and 32 if they don’t want to get divorced, at least in the first five years.Before we proceed to the explanation: Don’t shoot me if you’re older than that and not married yet. These are just statistics and c...
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Monday, March 28, 2016 - 7:19 PM
When researchers asked people to tell the stories of how they fell in love, what were the eleven most common factors?Via Falling in Love: Why We Choose the Lovers We Choose:Variables That Influence Falling in Love1. Similarity in attitudes, background, personality traits2. Geographic proximity3. Des...
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Tuesday, January 12, 2016 - 5:12 PM
New research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by professors of business administration at Harvard University, Leslie K. John, Kate Barasz, and Michael I. Norton suggests that it is better to tell the truth than to avoid the question or provide a non-ans...
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Thursday, January 07, 2016 - 12:19 PM
Everybody wants what feels good. Everyone wants to live a carefree, happy and easy life, to fall in love and have amazing sex and relationships, to look perfect and make money and be popular and well-respected and admired and a total baller to the point that people part like the Red Sea when you wal...
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Monday, January 04, 2016 - 1:39 PM
There are countless ways to improve the relationships we have with our partners, but sometimes, the simplest actions can have the biggest impact.Before you sit down to set huge, long-term goals for you and your significant other, think about what you can do now, together, to ensure a fresh (and heal...
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