Improve Your Dating by Changing One Thing

Stop taking your dating life so seriously.

If you can avoid this one huge mistake, your dating life will improve dramatically. I made this mistake throughout most of my dating life, as did most of my friends – in fact I think nearly all of us have. You see, I looked at dating as serving one purpose, and one purpose only: To [...]

3 Ways to Know He's a Keeper

Three ways to know he's a keeper.

All too often we overlook the three most important essentials of a real relationship. Looking back, it seems so obvious to me.  Of all the qualities I was looking for in a guy, of all my “must haves” on my quest for finding Mr. Right, I didn’t pay nearly enough attention to the three things that [...]

The Case of the Disappearing Man

The case of the disappearing man

We've all been there – you've gone on a couple of dates, had a great time, then suddenly, as quickly as it started…silence. Nothing but crickets. So why did it happen? Why did he just vanish from your life? Well, the truth is, it's because he wasn’t the guy for you. You may have felt [...]

He Might Be Right In Front of You

He might be right in front of you.

Sometimes the perfect guy for you has been right there all along, you just didn't notice. Buried in between all the unhealthy relationships that never turned out the way I wanted them to; in between all those heartbreaking dramatic episodes with guys that could never give me what I was so looking for, there were [...]

Are You Being Too Picky, Or Not Picky Enough?

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You may think you're refusing to settle, when in reality you're settling for less than what you really want. I recently reconnected with a friend of mine from my single, dating days. Back then she and I were searching for Mr. Right together, and we spent a lot of time discussing the men we were [...]

Stop Being So Hard on Yourself!

Don't be so hard on yourself.

There’s one thing we women do better than anything else - we beat ourselves up. It doesn’t matter how far we’ve come or what we’ve learned along the way, no one else is harder on us than we are. We know all too well exactlywhat we should have done, could have done, would have done [...]

Stop Trying To Be Something You're Not!

Don't hide your true personality

Bending and twisting yourself like a pretzel to fit what you think the person you're attracted to wants might get him interested, but here's why he won't stick around for long. This is the eighth and final post in our series 8 Signs You Aren’t Ready for a Relationship. If you often find that you're trying [...]

Do You Have Too Much Emotional Baggage?

Unpack your bags - don't let the memory of your ex get in the way of a new healthy relationship

Don't let the memory of your ex be the "third wheel" in your new relationship. This is the seventh post in our series 8 Signs You Aren't Ready for a Relationship. We all have unpacked emotional baggage from our past relationships, and it's difficult, if not impossible, to completely get rid of it; that's just being [...]