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This is a great article pulled from Bustle.com, originally written by Teresa Newsome. Technology has been an integral part of our lives, from checking our email on the computer to tweeting your favorite celebrity on your phone, and it's not going to slow down as it takes over almost every minute... Continue Reading

Photograph by Justin Bishop, Vanity Fair.There is a great article in the September issue of Vanity Fair written by Nancy Jo Sales, and below are the two most important excerpts. As the polar ice caps melt and the earth churns through the Sixth Extinction, another unprecedented phenomenon i... Continue Reading

When I get ready to match my clients, one of the many things I hear is their preference for a pet owner or an animal lover. Most of the time it’s because my clients already own a pet or two, and immediately I know they’re a great catch for whomever it is that I have in mind for them. Now... Continue Reading

A little while ago, the Harvard Business Review published an article on the advantages of having a conscientious spouse. According to the article, a recent study shows that a partner with a diligent and devoted mindset can work wonders for your career. As an expert on love and relationships... Continue Reading

Research published in the June issue of the journal Psychological Science had good news for those in the romance starved friend zone. Friends who become lovers think of each other as hotter than do strangers. When a couple started as friends first , the researchers found a marked similarity in a par... Continue Reading

Aziz Ansari, a comedian who starred on NBC’s Parks and Recreation just wrote a book along with sociologist Eric Klinenberg on the subject of love, and why people have such a hard time finding it. The authors point out that since the mid 1940's the number one way of meeting your m... Continue Reading

This article written by M. ALEX JOHNSON, originally appeared on nbcnews.com. Social media scams and cruel cons that target lonely hearts to rob them blind were the leading drivers of Internet fraud in 2014, the FBI reported Tuesday in a survey of computer crime. In its annual online fraud rep... Continue Reading

“All failed relationships hurt, but letting go of a toxic relationship is actually a gain, not a loss.” As youngsters we learn about sex education in grade school, the legality of marriage in our late teens, and perhaps some social psychology in college. But when it comes down to actuall... Continue Reading

I've got to give it to the people at Hinge who just decided to show their members' Facebook relationship status on their profile to expose people who may be in relationships and using Hinge to step outside of it. Or, in other words, "exposes douches trying to hide they're married&qu... Continue Reading

 In an attempt to make online dating decision making even simpler than what it once was, apps like Tinder, Happn, Hinge, Coffee Meets Bagel and more offer the opportunity to decide who you like and who you don’t based on a picture and almost no information. This new phenomenon caught the ... Continue Reading

Just recently in the Journal of Evolutionary Psychology professors of psychology at University of Albany published their findings in a report titled, Do Orgasms Give Women Feedback About Mate Choice? The study consisted of 54 sexually active female college students in a committed relationship with a... Continue Reading

I'm on Tinder and I'm engaged. I'm not there looking to hook up, I'm looking for potential matches on behalf of my clients. I put it front and center on my profile too. But there are an astonishing number of people in relationships on Tinder. Research firm GlobalWebIndex (GWI) r... Continue Reading

I've referred to the imbalance of eligible women to eligible men as, "an unintended consequence of feminism". Now the data is pouring in from places you might least expect. Studies now show that this shift is happening worldwide; in rich and poorer nations alike, and its starting at a ... Continue Reading

With Valentine’s Day behind us, its time to look back at the data and see what information lies within the numbers. “Research firm GlobalWebIndex surveyed 32 countries, and found that 62% of dating app users are men”. But for those of us more concerned about the market for matches domestically than abroad you can look back at a 2013 Pew Research Center study that says 13% of American males had used an app or site compared to only 9% of American women. Continue Reading

This morning a client of mine sent me an article in today's New York Times on the subject of lies and love. This very well written op-ed piece was penned by Clancy Martin, a professor of philosophy at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and the author of “Love and Lies.” Professor Martin is twice married, twice divorced and comfortable enough with himself to admit why. He cheats. Continue Reading