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Saturday, November 29, 2014 - 6:20 PM
As a professional matchmaker and personal coach I find myself repeating a lot of the same advice over and over again. It’s remarkable how the more we change, the more things stay the same. The process for finding, forming and maintaining a long lasting relationship is the same for anyone looki...
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Tuesday, October 28, 2014 - 8:34 PM
Lauren Giordano/The Atlantic
Olga Khazan does a fabulous job of exposing the underbelly of online dating this week in a terrific article for The Atlantic. She writes on the catharsis that women get when they public shame someone who offended them with inappropriate messaging or requests online. K...
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Monday, October 13, 2014 - 6:04 PM
Christian Rudder is one of the co-founders of OkCupid and to this day he is still crunching numbers and digesting its data. Because of his insider access into the databases of a prolific online dating site, he is able to get his hands on information that very few social scientists can. In his new bo...
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Tuesday, September 30, 2014 - 5:36 PM
Internet dating has taken America by storm. And with almost 125 million singles now living in the US, it doesn't appear likely to slow down any time soon. At first matchmakers coast-to-coast felt threatened by this new way of meeting people, but as the industry matured it only reinforced the need fo...
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Wednesday, September 24, 2014 - 3:35 PM
With the exception of my commentary, nearly all of this post was derived from the research and findings of Wendy Wang and Kim Parker at Pew Research.
Pew Research Center has just released some telltale findings regarding marriage in America. I am color-blind when it comes to matchmaking, an...
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Monday, September 22, 2014 - 1:16 PM
This post pertains to an article written by Jessica Bennett that originally appeared in The NY Times on August 29, 2014.
There is a conversation I have with every client I coach which typically occurs in our second session that is usually focused on “finding” the ideal...
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Sunday, September 14, 2014 - 11:43 AM
For years the divorce rate has been a hot topic of conversation. Since the statistic was first measured it's climbed steadily as the stigma of divorce has faded away. When The Great Recession began in 2008 the divorce rate actually dipped as unhappy spouses chose to stay in their relationships due t...
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Tuesday, August 26, 2014 - 4:54 PM
by Kelly Lynch
This article originally appeared on WorldLifestyle.com.
We asked best-selling author and 'Tough Love' host Steve Ward why texting is a game-changer when it comes to dating. This is his explanation of why texting may lead to intimacy sooner than...
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Thursday, August 21, 2014 - 11:39 PM
I coach a lot of women who are intelligent, beautiful, successful and childless. Most of them want a child really, REALLY bad. Some want a child more than they want a partner. A few just never really saw themselves as mothers and opted out of parenting. But I wouldn't know where to begin telling sto...
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Monday, August 18, 2014 - 7:25 PM
The scientific community has been conducting extensive research lately into the effects that social networks have on our health and psychology. Facebook just revealed their own secret study where they determined that your mood can be altered for days based on the posts you see from others. They call...
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Sunday, August 17, 2014 - 11:48 AM
I am engaged to marry an incredible woman. She is strong, independent, and self-assured. She brings out the best in me. As I have been morphing into the future husband I know I can be, I have often stopped and marveled at how different I am from the man I was just two years ago. Moments ago, while w...
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Thursday, August 14, 2014 - 10:37 AM
CBS News is reporting that Match.com has called bullshit on Eharmony.com and enlisted the support of the NAD (National Advertising Division), to publicly condemn them for it. The independent body that looks into advertising claims as part of the industry's self-regulation has agreed.
As a ...
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014 - 11:08 AM
According to a recent study published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology scientists concluded through a series of experiments that:
• Framing love as perfect unity can hurt relationship satisfaction.
• It hurts relationship satisfaction only in conflicts, not in...
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Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - 4:55 PM
When we feel strong, confident and happy, we attract people and situations that are of the same caliber. It is in this state that any love that is found serves to compliment and enrich, rather than momentarily relieve the root cause of pain.
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Friday, June 06, 2014 - 12:19 PM
My career in matchmaking and dating predates social media. I was bringing love into peoples’ lives before MySpace was a household name and before Zuckerberg launched Facebook. Online dating however, has been around since the chat room. I can remember as far back as 1993 when AOL personals repl...
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Monday, March 24, 2014 - 7:14 PM
I’m currently coaching two separate women with the same problem. One lives in Denver, CO. The other lives in Seattle, WA. As they’re both out and about looking to meet their match, they keep running into the same thing…“potheads”. With marijuana recreationally legal in...
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Wednesday, February 05, 2014 - 12:00 AM
To be successful in this digital age of dating we must constantly be reinventing our approach to finding, forming and maintaining relationships. First we released Love Lab®, our free, do-it-yourself solution for iPhone and Android powered by industry leading fraud prevention technology and inter...
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Tuesday, January 28, 2014 - 7:00 PM
Today ChristianMingle.com and Jdate.com released their Second Annual State of Dating in America™ Report. Although the conclusions were validating they were disheartening. When I was, Steve Ward, Host and Executive Producer of VH1 Tough Love, I was used to interacting with and trying to u...
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Friday, September 06, 2013 - 6:16 PM
How many of you have been in an “on and off” relationship? I’ve had my share. Some “on and off” relationships end up lasting the test of time. Others fall apart for very obvious reasons. But the two most important factors that determine whether or not people shoul...
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Thursday, August 22, 2013 - 4:04 PM
When first asked how I felt about hosting a coed collection of singles at one of my Tough Love boot camps I instantly thought of the degree of difficulty in what lied ahead. The conceit to Tough Love has always been that if the single women who signed up for it didn’t change their ways they wo...
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