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Dating & relationships

5 Tips To Start Dating Again

If you are tired of dating, don’t be. The secret to successful dating lies in patience and strength. While you may anticipate good things every time you da...

April 2017 3 min read

Dating & relationships

Moving On

What to do after a break-up Breaking up is not easy. Even if you think it’s the right decision, the pause it creates in your life makes you think twice. Yo...

April 2017 4 min read

Dating & relationships

Getting The Conversation Started

We recently discussed “pick-up lines” to examine how effective they were. A few days ago, one of my male friends, who just happens to play in a rock band,...

April 2017 4 min read

Dating & relationships

Love Yourself

Sometimes being single makes you depressed. It’s hard to watch your married friends live happily ever after. It’s hard to get into the right frame of mind...

April 2017 5 min read

Dating & relationships

Pick Up Lines: Friend Or Foe?

Not long ago, a guy walked up to me and said “I was just reading about you in the dictionary. You were the definition of ‘fine’.” Obviously, I didn’t give...

April 2017 5 min read

Dating & relationships

Just for Laughs - 1

At Matchfinder, we’ve stopped using headers in our member profiles. We used to and just for the sake of entertainment, here are some of the many profile he...

March 2017 3 min read

Dating & relationships

Just for Laughs - 2

Our 10 Most Philosophical Profile Headers: 10. Life is a journey, but a map would be nice. 9. If you have no expectations, you’ll have no disappointments....

March 2017 4 min read

Dating & relationships

Top 10 Worst Pickup Lines

Let’s face it, pickup lines are pretty dumb. However, some are definitely worse than others. We’ve collected what we believe to be the 10 worst pickup line...

March 2017 1 min read

Dating & relationships

Patience Is A Virtue

This is absolutely true, especially when it comes to online dating. The pace of internet dating is fundamentally different than traditional dating. It used...

March 2017 2 min read

Dating & relationships

Why Even Bother With Online Dating?

There are undoubtedly some of you reading this who have had a bad experience with it yourself and it’s true that online dating has something of a mixed rep...

March 2017 3 min read

Dating & relationships

Surviving a Bad Setup

Surviving a Bad Setup Many have had bad online dating experiences. You have to take the bad with the good. The goal is to meet a great person and start a l...

March 2017 4 min read

Dating & relationships

10 Reasons Why You Don't Have A Date

Do you want a date for Saturday night, or for any other night? Are you looking for someone to spend the rest of your life with? A lot of people want to kno...

March 2017 5 min read