Fun dating advice to help you meet guys and spice up your personal life.
Has your dating life fallen a little flat? Everyone says there are plenty of fish in the sea, but have you got the sneaking sensation that your pond has dried up? Fear not. Try your hand at these dating tactics.
Use Technology to Find a Date
Dating Gadgets
Maybe it's time you expand your arsenal of techno tools to include a love beeper, a hot little Japanese gizmo. The Lovegety is a pocket-sized, inexpensive, electronic ice-breaker guaranteed to flag-down Lovegety-toters of the opposite sex. This love-radar device lets you take the meet-market wherever you roam, flagging similarly configured Lovegety holders within a five-meter radius.
If you like this idea but would rather not purchase the Gety, services such as Bluedating provide software that helps you transform your Bluetooth-enabled device into a match-making device, a practice called "toothing."
Find Love Online
You needn't feel like a freak for having a profile on one (or even several) dating sites. As a busy professional woman on-the-go it's nice to know that you can be on the market even while you sleep.
Popular dating sites include:
- Date.com has helped over 8 million people in their quest for love, with over 50,000 new members joining weekly. Date.com's website explains that online dating has proven itself to be a safe, enjoyable and rewarding experience for their members. Their research shows that thousands of couples have begun successful relationships through their online dating services, with an average of one marriage weekly.
- Lavalife.com, one of the world's largest interactive dating websites, also allows members to connect via email, instant messaging, video webcam, landlines and mobile phones.
- eHarmony.com is a bit different in that it asks you to fill out detailed profiles and questionnaires in order for them to actively seek only members they consider scientifically compatible for you.
Get Romantic Referrals
Six Degrees of Separation from True Love
Not too keen on broadcasting your singledom throughout the vastness of cyberspace? Chat with friends, family, and friends of friends and do some serious networking to let them know who and what you're looking for in a relationship, and let the theory of six degrees of separation do the rest.
Throw a Recycle Men Party
Forget diamonds! References are a girl's best friend. Invite your girlfriends over for cocktails and tapas, and ask them to bring along a guy who didn't make the cut for them, but is still an eligible candidate with potential. Maybe it wasn't a match made in heaven for the two of them, but if your girlfriend thinks enough of her ex to try to help him find true love he can't be all bad. Think of it as pre-screening with a twist.
Help Him Make the First Move
Go Out Without Your Girlfriends
Occasionally ditching the chicks means there's no chance of bickering over guys and means he doesn't have to venture into the depths of no-man's land to strike up a conversation.
Create an Opportunity for Chivalry
Are there any genuine gentlemen left? It sounds incredibly hokey, but be spontaneous and let something fall discretely (a book, a pen, whatever). If he takes the bait, you've just broken the ice (but made him feel as if he's made the first move).
Join an Activity that Breaks the Ice
TemptingKiss.com suggests adult education classes or clubs as great places to meet men who are interested in the same things as you. Good ones include drawing, cooking, or Do-It-Yourself classes and running clubs. Joining classes creates a regular non-date session where you can learn something, catch his eye and have something in common to talk about.
