The 15 Minute Dating Blog

by Ritesh Manglani.

I am a 28 male software engineer from Gujarat, India. It was recently when I gave in for marriage after resisting it for years and my parents started searching a girl for me, and as expected within a few weeks they fixed my meeting with this girl who was, according to my parents, a good wife material. My parents were really impressed with her and they were repeatedly saying “the girl is very beautiful” but is it just the beauty you look for in your life partner? I knew there is a lot more one wants. So like any other educated, wise man I decided to spend some time with this girl to know her better and then take the most important decision of my life.

People who don’t know much about Indian culture and the way matrimonial things work here. Here is some insight. It is being considered taboo if you are above 25-26 and still single (however this trend is changing these days thanks to the youngsters like me). We still have a system of arrange marriages, our family looks for the suitable boy/girl, once they find someone appropriate, they usually fix the meeting of potential bride-groom and leave the final decision to them but some families don’t even allow boy and girl to meet before marriage, and the family only takes the final decision.

I could just thank the god as my family falls in former one. People from western countries may find it absurd but that’s the way things work here.

After plenty of efforts, my dad managed to get one hour of time from the girl’s family. Being a rebel I protested as I knew one hour would not be enough but eventually my parents convinced me and I decided to just go with the flow, as somewhere back in mind I knew that I always have an option of saying “No” for the marriage after meeting.

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by Carly Zinderman.

You know that Drew Barrymore movie, Never Been Kissed? I totally relate to it, except for being a completely pathetic loser. Yet, in high school, no boy ever showed me the slightest bit of interest. I wasn’t worried about it though, my friends were never asked out either, despite the attempts my closest friend occasionally made on random guys that happened to catch her interest. Other than her over-aggressive pursuit of the male sex, my friends and I had next to no contact with boys during our four years of high school and for most of us, the male-free barrier continued on into our college years as well. But the dearth of dating didn’t bug me as much as you’d think. You don’t miss what you’ve never had and never having had a guy; I didn’t miss not having one. Besides, my friends and I had each other, and that was enough. We would sometimes joke about how we would be old cat ladies, which did bother me, because I’m a really a dog person.

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by Mary Powers.

At the ripe age of 25, I was anti-date. Unlike many of my friends, being single was status I relished. The freedom to do anything you wanted, when you wanted to do it. No compromising, no fighting over the remote, and I didn’t have to shave my legs unless I felt like it.

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by Beth Lilley

When he met me I was a Night Elf Druid and he was a Human Priest, standing outside the ruins of a temple to powerful gods. He was the leader of a group sent to fight the invasion of evil insects onto our world, Azeroth. When approached me and asked if I would join their quest and heal those that were injured during the battle, I readily agreed. This was my chance to show my value as a healer of druidic magic, and an opportunity to loot some plunder from the bug lords we killed…playing World of Warcraft can create interesting dating experiences.

World of Warcraft is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game, or MMORPG. This means that you create a character, enter a game-based universe, and interact with other players around the world. World of Warcraft (WOW) does not have to be for the anti-social, and in some cases you can find an opportunity for dating and romance.

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by Jana Schreiber

Online dating is a great invention for those who don’t want to get all dolled up for an evening of getting-to-know-you small talk, or pay for an uncomfortable encounter where the only sparks are the ones coming from the restaurant stovetops. Online dating lets you set up shop in front of the computer screen in the comfort of your home where you can look through potential candidates for your next relationship. There are no awkward silences or panic attacks because you have run out of things to say. You just float along picking and choosing people who you click with- the ones who leave you interesting messages and ask you thoughtful questions. The catch with this seemingly perfect dating alternative is that no matter how long you talk online, or how much you seem to know about this person, you really can never be sure that who you see on the computer screen is who you get in the flesh.

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by Rick Fowler

My sister, a Health nurse for our part of the county had spoken to a teacher through a visit to the school where this young lady was teaching. After this visit my sister called me and told me I should give her a call; she seemed to be single and not involved with anyone.

It took a few days to get my nerve up but one evening I dialed her number and began my conversation with: “Hi, you don’t know me from Adam but….” One hour later, and with a date to a high school play at the school where I taught arranged, we ended our conversation.

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by Rachel Tornheim

At first, he was faceless. That’s how new to this he was. Where his face should have been, there was only a blue rectangle, void except for a message informing me that his profile was being approved by Customer Care. I silently wished him luck - I was still bitter about this Customer Care character nixing my bikini pic, which was clearly no more inappropriate than the many shirtless pictures of guys they let through. Not to mention the fact that they had taken liberties with my essay, deleting the line in which I mentioned that one of my nicknames is “The Grammar Nazi” - can’t they tell the difference between ethnic insensitivity and grammatical fanaticism?

Back to our faceless friend. His existence had been brought to my attention on a Friday evening in April, while I was sitting in my apartment, diligently scrolling through the faces (or lack thereof) of the men who had viewed my profile since my last perusal. In addition to his pictures, Customer Service still had his essays in their clutches, so all I could see were his answers to the multiple choice questions. Based on a quick skim of those, he seemed fine, but who could tell? I moved on to the next profile, not expecting to give this fellow another thought.

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by Thomas Riddell

When I pulled my first computer out of the box in February of 1998, I had no idea how that machine, consisting of plastic, glass, wires and electronics, would change my life. It literally opened up a whole new world for me - who knew at the time that it would bring me “chicks”?

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