The 15 Minute Dating Blog

by Chris Arnone.

The fidgeting of the napkin at the dinner table, the fear of the awkward silence, should you kiss goodnight? Yea first dates are nerve racking and often dreaded by men and women everywhere. But if you’re looking for love, you have to get over this hump, it’s inevitable. By avoiding these top 15 topics, you can assure yourself of a second date, which allows you to be on your way to the big L. Unfortunately most people don’t make it past the first date. Find out why below.

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by Mary Powers.

So you finally gave in and posted an online profile. You were so concerned about choosing the right photo and striking the perfect balance between “casually breezy” yet “intellectual”, that you’d forgotten the whole point of this was to actually meet someone. So when you sifted through your responses and came across someone who might actually be a decent match for you, you panicked.

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by Meg Stivison.

When my parents started dating, they lived a few states away from each other. They’d see each other about once a month, but most of the time they mailed long letters back and forth. Although they now have boxes full of romantic letters, that kind of delayed communication can put quite a strain on a relationship.

Even with modern communications like e-mail and text-messaging, long distance relationships take work. After dating my boyfriend for almost two years, I took a one-year contract to work in another country. I know this isn’t the decision everyone would make, but it was the right choice for us. We both had great opportunities in our respective fields, and there was a definite endpoint in sight. We counted down the months until we’d be back in the same time zone.

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by Alicia Howe.

First dates truly matter in terms of first impressions, and the chance to make any impression past that. Whether you’ve experienced a first date disaster, or even just witnessed a traumatic first between two others, you know that there are certain activities to steer clear from. However, if you are not a regular first date professional as of now, here are some tips of what not to do on a first date.

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by Nicholas E. Fesko.

I was going through a divorce. I was lonesome. I wanted someone to make me feel attractive, to understand my point of view, and give me hope for a happy life.

So I turned to my PC for help.

My foray into online dating came about slowly. First, I emailed a local newspaper columnist who was seeking stories for an upcoming piece about online dating.

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by Rebecca “Ruji” Chapnik.

You try to ignore it, but the queasy feeling won’t disappear. Is it all in my head? you wonder. Blaming yourself for being insecure, you sweep your worries under the futon.

Three months later, you’re purging the debris of a hit-and-run relationship, wishing you could rewind and stop at the instant you sensed you were getting the short end of the proverbial stick.

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by Cindy Embleton.

A Scene in New York

I ventured into a coffee shop in Park Slope, Brooklyn, when I suddenly saw her.

Thumbing through the pages of her photography magazine, she glanced up to check the time, surveyed the room, then slipped back into a universe of shutters and fitted lenses.

I returned to my laptop and sipped my tea. She didn’t know who I was, and I wasn’t about to tell her.

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For those who are in the dating game, you would be surpised on how much information you can dig up on your date using the net these days.

Internet search has totally changed the dating scene. In traditional dating you find out about the person that you are dating by spending time with him/her, and perhaps even through friends or families. Nowdays with our good friend google you can find out more than you want to know about who you are dating within a couple of minutes.

This article takes a look at the current trend of googling for information about who you are dating.

Pam Smith, who went out with a “Nice” man three times got a rude awakending when she typed her date’s name into Google and saw his name on the Most Wanted List.

“…He was the nicest guy you could possibly want to meet…Now, I feel like a fool.”

Would you ever google your date? What happens if everyone’s information is made public? Is compromising user privacy a good cause for better or even safer dating? What are some of your thoughts?

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by Jackson Morris.

The other day my penis and my brain were having an argument over where I should take my date. Certainly the analytical side of my brain and the analytical side of my penis were in total agreement. Those two halves of nothing told me to take the female unit to a comfortable setting that would create inner peace and equality for us both. They told me that this setting would naturally deteriorate the predictable psychological barriers that generally are erected out of new found encounters. During this cerebral powwow the creative side of my brain and the creative side of my penis went to battle over where I should take the female unit. In the process they kidnapped the analytical side of my brain and cut off the blood to the analytical side of my penis, draining it of all life and future decision making.

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by Terry Dip

If you walk around LA, you’ll see lots of Asian couples. Look closer and if you can tell the difference, you’ll see that these couples are of not only the Asian race but the same Asian ethnicity. For a city known worldwide for its cultural diversity, LA has many monoethnic Asian couples. Nothing wrong with that, but there are specific reasons for it.

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Would you like to do something romantic with your sweetheart but a weekend on your private island or an evening on your yacht seems like a bit of a stretch?

This is an excellent article for those who are looking for romantic ideas while on a shoe-string budget.

50 Ways to Be Romantic on the Cheap

My favorite? Dark chocolates and love songs!

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by Chris Arnone.

Women can’t say the word “No.” Plain and simple. So what do they do? They use excuses or alibis to tell men they are not interested. Women don’t want to hurt a guys feelings because they know it would kill a guy to hear the truth…”I don’t like you.” While it may appear nice it often leads to guys being misled.

Here is a list of excuses/alibis that women use in order to tell you that they are not interested in you. Girls who like you would never say these things to you. You see whether they fall in love at first sight with a guy, or whether they have the slightest interest/attraction towards a particular guy, they have to go out with them. Period. But when they don’t feel that way - you hear one of the following.

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by Jennifer.

No one ever suspects that what happens to someone they know could possibly happen to them. That’s just the way we coax ourselves. “Never going to happen to me.”, we say. A good friend dies by the hands of a stranger she never met without an electronic wall veiling his true identity. Stalked and beaten to death by a complete stranger. That would never happen to me. I was wiser than to give my information over a medium that promised no security to where the information was trickling into.

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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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Are you a sucker for the brainy types? Do you prefer to hit the books instead of bars?

According to this recent article in the in the Washington Post, more and more people are attracted to each other through intellectual events instead of traditional dating. “It is, observers of the trend say, a visceral backlash to life in a Paris Hilton world. It’s a chance to impress a mate, or a potential date, by flexing a body part that has lost ground in recent years to biceps and pecs — the brain.”

According to the article : “Intellidating,” first coined in England in 2002, sprang from “Intelligence Squared,” a live discussion series launched by a couple of British moguls whose professed aim was to make debating “sexy”. Apparently there are also new dating services such as www.intellectconnect.com available to connect people intellectually. Users’ profiles usually include literary, writing, poetry and other intellectual interests.

Is this a new trend? “Over the past two years — but particularly in the past 12 months — dozens of cultural institutions have seized on the demand, offering events that draw the intellidating crowd and help the establishments cultivate younger clienteles.”

Perhaps it’s time to start brushing up your scrabble skills?

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Based on a sociology research conducted at Ohio State University, a map that describes the romantic and sexual relationships of a high school (Jefferson High) is shown below. The blue dots represents boys and the pink dots represents girls.

“For the first time, sociologists have mapped the romantic and sexual relationships of an entire high school over 18 months, providing evidence that these adolescent networks may be structured differently than researchers previously thought.”.

What’s interesting is that if you pay close attention to the map you can see some blue on blue connections as well as some “isolated” communities as well. There are also 63 faithful couples that didn’t felt like joining the party.

I also wonder what the map will look like for adults, although it might be hard to make the same comparison since adult life usually does not revolve around a tightly related society (like a high school). According to the article : “As a comparison, many adult sexual networks are more like an airline hub system where many points are connected to a small number of hubs…”.

Here’s the link to the original article.

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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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Just how much do people lie online? Do you stretch the truth a little bit when you are filling out your profile? This article is an excellent piece from Scientific American on the truthfulness of online dating.

According to the research conducted by MIT and Boston University, a whooping 90% of the people actually exaggerate their dating profiles while only 20% admit to doing so. The research results also indicate that men tend to lie about their education, marital status, heights, and income. Women tend to lie about their weight, age, and looks. Another interesting fact is that the amount of exaggeration tends to increase with age. Is online dating really making an already serious commitment problem even worse?

Apparently through websites such as DontDateHimGirl.com and Womansavers.com people can actually post “anti-profiles”, or profiles of persons to watch out for (sort of like America’s Most Wanted for Internet Dating). Have you checked to see if you’re on the most wanted list today?

The Internet can also be useful, like how online colleges allow you to get yourself degrees through an online school program. Many people find that by getting an online education they can save a lot of money, since you don’t have to move or commute to get online degrees from your couch at home.

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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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Below is a map from the February 2007 issue of National Geographics that shows the distribution of single men and women population among the US regions. Size of red dots represent single women population and blue dots represent single men population. According to the map, if you are female and still single, the happiest place for you on earth right now is somewhere near Disneyland in Orange County

(Image from creativeclass.typepad.com and National Geographic’s Feb. ‘07 issue)

Well single gals, start packing your bags and head west! Just make sure you don’t miss those cute ones that are migrating east while on your way there!

For a larger version of the map click here, and here is the link to the blog article.

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