The 15 Minute Dating Blog

by Mary Powers.

Internet dating can be tricky, you never know if the person is telling the whole truth. Often people fudge on minor details. For example, I tell people I am 30 when I am really 33. Maybe today I’m 130 pounds, but yesterday I was 145 pounds. Little white lies can be expected, but what happened next made me question disclosure ethics in the world of online dating.

I met Miguel online in a dating chat room. He appeared to be funny, sweet, and interesting. After chatting for a few weeks, we agreed to meet in person for a real date.

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by Karen Boss.

Baseball season and dating season begin at the same time. Most people (especially those of us who have suffered a long winter) find that when spring begins its slow crawl - and our favorite team starts winning, we are ready to begin anew our search for a perfect mate for the long summer days and even longer summer nights.

Dating (and baseball) season has only been open since April, and already I’m losing steam. I am no Dice-K, that’s for damn sure.

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by Mary Powers.

His ad seemed decent. He was a single white male, so we had two out of three things in common right away. His name was John, he was a homeowner, and he loved the outdoors and novels. He said he wanted to meet right away because there was no reason to chit-chat for weeks before the person-to-person encounter. John was a firm believer in physical chemistry; he insisted we’d have to meet each other in the flesh to see if we would be attracted to each other. If things checked out, then we could get to know each other. Being a flexible person, I decided to go with it.

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by Colleen O’Brien

I’ve learned that some guys lie on craigslist (and in life) to make themselves look good. (To be fair, so do some women. Since when do “curvy” and “obese” mean the same thing?) I’m not sure why people present themselves falsely when they know they’ll be found out, but I’m quite the opposite. Why lie?

I’ve learned that 5′5″ is the same as 5′10″ around here. If you’re 5′5″, that’s perfectly fine. But why say you’re 5′10″ when I’ll find out soon enough that I can look you straight in the eye without craning my neck? Chances are excellent that that’s the only date we’ll have.

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by Sunil Tinani

My whole body tingled as I looked at Amy Lou. She was built like Pamela Anderson, seemed as intelligent as Jodie Foster and looked as if she wanted to party 24/7. That was the good news. The bad news was I was looking at her photograph on a dating site where I was hunting around to make some new female friends aged 40–50, because at that age women understood a lot of things. Plus, I was 45 and any woman below 38 or so would fall in my “juvenile” bracket.

The key elements in her dating dossier read:

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by Arielle Jacobs

Back in December, I did something I swore to myself I would never do. After the prodding of family, friends and coworkers, I buckled down and joined JDate, the online dating website for Jewish singles. A month and a half later, I cancelled my paying membership. Did I find true love? Had I gone from total non-believer to newest JDate poster girl, complete with gargantuan sized photo of myself and my new love obnoxiously displayed in New York’s Times Square? (If you’ve never seen this horrid billboard of rotating JCouples, you’re not missing out). Oh no, dear friends, quite the opposite.

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by Dan Burke

This blog is mainly for guys, hence the picture above that will draw many Maxim readers in. But women are welcome to read this, and might find it interesting, too. Anyway, here’s a question for the guys who are reading this: If you were in a club, and a woman approached you who looked like the one pictured above, what would you do? This question is, of course, assuming that you’re not already seeing someone.

The most logical answer to this question is, unless you were really stupid, your ego would go up 50 points. Not to mention you’d probably be thinking you were drinking the good luck elixir that Harry Potter drank in “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”. But if you look anything like me in the picture below, this kind of scenario probably doesn’t happen a whole hell of a lot:

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by Denise Kincy

Greg wasn’t fat. He just didn’t look anything like the guys I was normally attracted to; those thin, dark, dangerous James Dean wannabes. However, I had had my belly full of that sort of character, so when the rosy-cheeked, cuddly teddy-bear of a man started talking to me at the party, I paid attention. And I was glad. He was funny, his laughter sweet and inviting.

We became lost in conversation as the rest of the party milled around us, dancing and drinking. He asked if I wanted to go grab a bite to eat. I didn’t think twice before saying yes. I blame Jose Cuervo for jumping out of those margaritas and gleefully declaring what a great idea it was.

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by Jacob Miller

I’ve been doing the online dating thing for the better part of two years. As a 32-year-old single guy with somewhat unique interests, it’s nice not to have to wade through meaningless small talk before you reach the inevitable rejection, as computer dating can narrow the field quite a bit. And while I’ve had decent experiences with other 20 and 30-somethings that don’t quite know what they want, there was one major exception.

I noticed this one woman’s profile, liked the fact that she was into beer, and after exchanging a couple of emails, figured out she was someone I had attended high school with. I said this stroke of fate was enough reason to get together, and she enthusiastically agreed, and we met at a local brewpub.

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by Ron Bishow

I realized after seeing a commercial for Match.com during the Super Bowl that online dating had definitely hit the mainstream.

There is certainly no shortage of places to try your luck on the information superhighway either. Udate, PerfectMatch, AmericanSingles, Yahoo even J-Date for those who want to narrow the field a little. The only preventative issue with these sites is cost. Match.com for instance costs $39.99 a month for the privilege of finding the love of your life, which may not sound like a whole lot but as a guy remember you are also paying for the dates.

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by Amber Hathaway

For better or worse, I’m quite familiar with online dating, especially the flaws in that system. Having always preferred men to be a few years older than me, I never dated within my high school or even within my college. I have met nearly all of my dates online. Maybe it’s because I rate mediocre on the attractiveness scale but tend to wow people with my wit, or because I place such a high value on intelligence and cleverness, but I’ve always just found myself able to tell if someone is worth my time by chatting online over the course of a few days or weeks or even months.

That is, I’m almost always able to tell. One evening last year I discovered the importance of the in-person meeting. A young man in my area, let’s call him James, had messaged me on a popular dating site and we had been chatting almost everyday for over a week. Not wanting to waste time, we decided to make plans for dinner that coming weekend to see if we had any chemistry. It turns out that he did, but I certainly did not.

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by Rebecca Kling

OK, so a 25 year old virgin might not seem as bad as a “40 Year Old Virgin.” But let me tell you, going on a date with any fully-grown man who has never, umm… had sex, can be a pretty strange experience.

A couple years ago, I met Tom online and was immediately attracted to his charm, good looks and intelligence. By the end of our first date, I was won over by his sexy gaze and smile. The date had gone smoothly, and I could tell Tom was really into me. When we parted without so much as a hug or peck on the cheek, I immediately wondered if I did something wrong—Did I seem uninterested, did I talk too much about my ex, or worst of all—did I have food stuck in between my teeth after dinner??

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by Andrea

A few years back, I was living in a blue-collar city where the social scene centered around the bars, and I kept meeting That Guy – fratty, with all the vapid things he screamed in my ear reeking of stale beer. Out of sheer desperation to have one conversation with the opposite sex about… well, anything aside from how much he could bench press, I signed up for an online dating service.

Of course, the site was populated with a lot of the same guys. The upside was, I got to screen them over e-mail – can’t string two sentences together? Can’t name the vice president? Off the list. Finally, I came upon a guy who got the pun in my bio. Worked in finance, cracked a couple jokes, knew a good restaurant to meet up at for a drink. We clicked online, exchanging e-mail messages about vacations and college lit courses. It seemed like a safe bet.

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by Tamara Warta

I’ll never forget Janie, a high school classmate who fluctuated between being my best friend and my biggest nemesis. Janie was heavy set with mousy brown hair and a crude vocabulary talent that could humble the most vulgar of sailors. From sharing secrets late at night to getting into a fistfight at the Winter Formal senior year, Janie was always a part of my high school experience in one way or another.

I mention Janie for one reason – she was never able to land a boyfriend for more than a few months at a time. Bouncing from one guy to the next, she was a torrent of rage and tears, punching lockers on a continual basis. This cycle continued until the last month of the 12th grade when Janie was convinced she had met the man of her dreams.

I should clarify that she hadn’t exactly met the man of her dreams, but rather she was to go on a date with him that Saturday night. She was being set up on the traditional blind date so popular in the late 1990s, only there was one catch. Janie was to sit in a neighborhood taqueria by herself near the window. Then Mr. Dreamboat would cruise on by and, if he liked what he saw, he would come in and greet Janie. If he was unimpressed, Janie would be left there to wonder what had happened – jilted on what she was hoping would be one of the greatest nights of her life.

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