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Cooking Dinner for your Date – Tips and Advice

2007-10-07T10:17:00.000-07:00

Cooking Dinner for your Date – Tips and Advice

One of the most intimate things you can do with your date (without the removal of clothes that is) is to cook dinner for them. You don’t have to be a professional cook or chef to pull this off either, just follow the tips and advice below and you’ll be amazed at how simple it is to show your partner how much you care about them by creating a romantic dinner for two in your own home.

Remember that this is first and foremost a date. It’s not a job interview to be a member of the catering staff at a fancy restaurant! Unless you’re very comfortable in the kitchen, keep your menu choice simple. Avoid anything that’s going to be sensitive on cooking time as your date shouldn’t be kept to military precision timing!
Check if your date has any allergies or culinary dislikes before you finally decide on your chosen menu. If they have an aversion to seafood or a nut allergy for example, it may mean that you need to change your proposed menu to accommodate this. If you find out once you’ve made the meal it could spoil an otherwise romantic evening. So make sure you do your homework and serve food that you know will be appreciated.
If you’re unsure whether to do a 3-course meal or a 2-course meal, make it a 2-course meal but have a tray of cheese and crackers with some sliced fresh fruit ready to serve with the coffee after the meal.
Write down everything you need to do with the meal – from a list of ingredients and kitchen equipment, to the steps you’ll take when preparing the meal. You should also consider where you and your date will eat, and add anything you will require (such as a centerpiece), and things you need to do associated with serving the meal (polishing glassware for example) to your preparation list. Calculate how long each step on your list will take you to complete – overestimate if you’re not sure!
Buy as much of the things you need the day before your date, leaving only any produce that must be bought fresh on the day – but make sure that you remember to leave a note to yourself somewhere prominent highlighting any items you still need to get. You should also prepare as much of the food in advance as you can. Many dishes can be half-prepared if not entirely prepared ready for cooking the night before and then stored in the refrigerator overnight.
Make sure that your clothes for the date are ready the night before, and that you know how you will wear your hair. Once you start cooking on the evening of your date, you’ll be less stressed if you know you just need a few moments to jump into your date clothes before your date arrives.
If you’re running behind schedule, find something for your date to do to help with the meal when they arrive, this could be something as simple as setting the tableware on the table, or more intimate such as asking them to help you with the food preparation. Most people in this situation will enjoy the experience.
Relax! If you’ve organized and prepared everything right, then trust your ability in the kitchen to carry off the meal you’ve planned. And if it doesn’t turn out exactly right, so what! You’ll at least have shown your date that you care enough about them to at least try and make the date something a little more special!

Finding Your Niche In The Online Dating World

2007-08-28T11:31:00.000-07:00

Finding Your Niche In The Online Dating World

CNN recently published an interesting article about niche dating at this url: http://www.cnn.com/2007/LIVING/wayoflife/08/27/niche.dating/index.html

As online dating sites become more popular, the industry has seen an increasing trend in the number of niche dating sites that are popping up.

A firm believer in helping people to "find their niche", Online Dating Galore has recently welcomed these three niche sites into it's family of affiliated online dating sites:

Muscle Dating - Muscular men, athletic women, and those who love them can mingle at this new site
Disabled Singles Connection - Disabled singles from all over the world can hook-up at this international disabled dating site.
Lesbian Singles Galore - Lesbian singles can determine whether other women might be a good match based on several factors such as interests, personality, and sensual matching scores.
Gay Singles Galore - Just like Lesbian Singles Galore, but targeted towards gay and bisexual men.

For a comprehensive directory of niche dating sites, visit our main site OnlineDatingGalore.com.

If niche sites aren't quite your thing, AllThingsRomantic.com online dating is a great site to meet others worldwide.

Interracial Dating Increasingly More Accepted Among Black Women

2007-08-06T20:21:00.000-07:00

Interracial dating is an option that black women are increasingly giving serious consideration to according to this article about interracial dating at CNN.com.

Up until recently, many black women wouldn't consider dating a white man. The pool of available single black men has been shrinking (see interracial dating article for details), so it makes sense for many black women to consider dating white men.

Some online dating sites focus specifically on the interracial dating niche. AllInterracialDating.com is a well-trusted site that exists to serve the needs of black and white singles who would like an opportunity to meet other available singles who are "outside" of their race. Interracial dating sites are a great way to meet other like-minded singles for friendship, dating and love!

How to Be The Guy That Women Lust After

2007-06-20T06:27:00.000-07:00

How to Be The Guy That Women Lust After

Women lust after guys for many different reasons, and there’s no way that any guy can make every woman lust after him. However, there are some things that you can do in order to make yourself attractive to as many women as possible. Many of these suggestions are simple to implement and yet once you perfect them, you’ll have many women lusting over you!

The first selection of suggestions is with regard to your appearance. Although most physical attributes are subjective, and different body shapes appeal to different women, there are some things that are universal. For example, women like their men to look clean and fresh. Turn up on a date with a five o’clock shadow, covered in ink and wearing a crumpled shirt and jeans, and you’re not likely to get a good response from your date. Turn up recently shaved, with the same clothes but with them freshly laundered and your date is going to have a better first impression of you. Other physical things are a white dazzling smile and a decent haircut (although hair length and style again is a subjective area!). If you can get your eyes to twinkle – or even get that George Clooney eye-crinkle thing going on, you’re off to a great start!

Next comes the personality traits that most women love (or hate). A sense of humor is often at the top, or near the top of a list of “must have” attributes that women look for in a guy. This isn’t necessarily a “Simpson’s” or “South Park” sense of humor, but rather showing yourself to be a person that can laugh and who doesn’t take himself or life too seriously. Although she probably won’t appreciate you making a public spectacle of yourself (and her!) with outrageous behavior, if you can make a woman laugh, you hold her in the palm of your hand. Other personality traits are listening to what she has to say, not monopolizing the conversation, not being too macho in your approach to who picks up the check, not appearing to be needy or high maintenance, and having an air of self-confidence that doesn’t border on arrogance. If you can manage to hold a conversation that doesn’t revolve around sports, then you’re going to score even higher on her lust scale!

Although the stereotypical woman lusts after a 6-pack abdomen and shoulders the size of Texas, this isn't what the average woman is looking for. Although women do go for this kind of thing in certain situations, as with guys, this is usually a social thing rather than a personal choice in a partners. To be a guy that women lust over, you don't necessarily have to attend charm school and spend 3 hours in the gym everyday - just be attentive, quietly confident, relaxed, and sincere, but above all, be yourself. Nothing is more attractive than a man who is comfortable in his own skin!

How to Be The Guy That Women Lust After

First Date Tips

2007-06-08T13:32:00.000-07:00

First Date Tips

Here’s a quick and simple list of first date tips:

First Date Do’s:

Be Yourself - Be on your best behavior, certainly, but don’t be anyone but you. While you don’t want to say you’re single when you’re legally separated, you don’t need to say that you bite your nails when you’re nervous, and you get nervous at the dentist. Leaving that little fear of dentists thing out doesn’t make you a liar. It just makes you someone who is honest but putting her or his best foot forward. Tell a few things about yourself – true things – that show your good, sweet, tender and honest side. Leave your phobias for later.

Listen To Your Date - Don’t hog the conversation! That will make you look rude and self-absorbed. The primary reason you don’t hog the conversation, however, is because this first (and possibly only) date is the first chance to get to know this lovely creature sitting next to you or across the table from you. If you monopolize the conversation what will you have learned? And chances are you’ll ruin any chance of learning more later.

Try to Relax and Enjoy Yourself - Fun should be a first date rule! Forget about finding your life partner, forget about trying to look and act like the great charmer. Just enjoy this time. The worst that could happen is you don’t hit it off and you won’t have lost much except a few hours at most.

First Date Don’ts:

Do Not Pretend to be Someone or Something That You’re Not – This is a big one. Two things happen if you do. First, you are discovered to be a liar, then or later, and you lose the relationship. Second, you aren’t discovered to be a liar and you’re in a relationship where you aren’t allowed to be yourself. Ultimately you will lose this relationship as well. Imagine pretending to be a non-smoker and fighting the urge to puff away on your first date. What if the date goes well? What if you continue the relationship? You’ll be forced to go cold turkey with those nasty cigs or to out yourself and be branded a liar - which may end up losing the relationship anyway.

Don’t Make Snap Judgments About Someone You Meet on a First Date – (Unless they’re so unattractive you feel nauseated or so boorish and crazy that you fear for your life or sanity being near them). Relax, give her or him a few dates to let their guard down and show their true self. If you still don’t see what you want to see after that, then end it and move on.

Don’t Leave Him or Her Hanging, Wondering if She or He Will Ever See You Again at the End of the First Date - Say, “I had a great time. Let’s do this again.” If you don’t want to see him or her, say, “It was a pleasure meeting you. I had a nice time, but I don’t feel that we have the right chemistry/match/connection. I’m sure you’ll find the right one soon enough - good luck on your search.” Make yourself clear. Why waste time?

First Date Tips

Mental Abuse - The 7 Most Important Things to Know

2007-05-28T15:27:00.001-07:00

Mental Abuse - The 7 Most Important Things to Know

Mental abuse can affect people differently. It is often misunderstood as such. An individual that experiences this type of abuse may not realize they are being mistreated at all. It can range from being manipulated to being called derogatory names. This type of mistreatment is often ignored in the law and in a relationship. However, it could be more damaging than being physically abused. Bruises heal but the harm of the mind could linger for years. It could build up and destroy an individual's self-esteem or other relationships with friends and family members. An individual may not understand that this is happening to them. Every word or sentence could be building until it is too late to receive the help that is necessary.

Words are dangerous, especially when a person hears the same harmful sentences day in and out. This is the mild form of mental abuse. However, it can be very harmful in future situations such as new relationships, new employment opportunities or even behavior directed towards another individual. Words are damaging and every sentence needs to be thought through carefully.

An individual needs to take control of their own mind before it is warped by negative feedback. These people try to make themselves look better when they put another person down. Recognize this and decide these people will be harmful. Then make a conscious effort to not have anything more to do with this person. If it is someone that a person must work with or a family member then walk away when they start talking negatively.

Mental abuse is often about control. When another person relays negative feedback or is manipulating this could have lasting effects. Manipulation is a powerful tool to make someone believe that they are worthless and cannot do better than the individual they are with.

If an individual is with someone that always blames them for every little thing no matter how asinine it may be this is abuse. Understand that everything that happens in life is not anyone's fault. Things happen when it is least expected.

Even if a person has been in a horrible relationship and finally found the freedom to leave, it is not too late to seek help and guidance. Everyone goes through negativity at some point in their lives. Seek assistance so this does not control the rest of a potentially great existence.

An excellent method to tell if it is time to leave a mentally abusive individual is when the person feels afraid. Even though as soon as this emotion sets in, it is harder to find the courage to pack the bags and walk out. Friends and family want to help and will be there for an individual that is in need of dire assistance.

It is possible to not know or believe that a person is being abused. Mental mistreatment is hard to recognize. During arguments and fights every person may say something wrong or mean. This does not mean that they are being abused, however, when out of nowhere a person is calling their lover a worthless, no-good you-know-what. This type of behavior should send red flags up.

It is important to understand the warning signs of mental abuse. This could cause lasting effects to every individual that is involved. A person does not need to stay around anyone that is mistreating them. Stand up and take charge of life again. Release the negativity and walk out the front door. The best advice is not to leave a forwarding phone number or address.

Free Online Dating Crash Course Released

2007-05-23T10:39:00.000-07:00

I just wanted to post a quick announcement about I site that I just put together. It's called Online Dating Crash Course and it covers all kinds of online dating topics such as:

How to Write A Great Dating Profile

Making A Video Profile

What to Write in That All-Important First Email

Online Dating Scams - How to Protect Yourself

And a lot of other good stuff

Hope the tips and advice it offers are helpful! You can check it out FREE at http://www.OnlineDatingCrashCourse.com

Steps to Starting Over After A Divorce

2007-05-22T17:28:00.000-07:00

Starting Over After A Divorce

One of the most devastating experiences a person can go through is divorce. The pain is very real whether it was only a year ago or 40 years ago. The major question of 'Why?' is asked. Often it is never answered. Starting over after a divorce is a hard journey. Some individuals may feel like they do not want to put in the effort. Some may swear off dating all together. Life is short. Have fun, date and be happy is the best suggestion of all. An individual could resume the dating scene without much effort. It is time to get off the couch, stop eating everything in sight and have some fun!

It could be more difficult than just getting up and going out. How can an individual feel well enough to go have fun after a devastating break? With simple steps a person can feel excellent and begin the healing process.

The first step for an individual is to call up some friends and go have a few drinks or go to a club. Get back around people. The longer a person is out of the game, the more difficult it is to socialize. A person does not need to hook up with the first person they see. Take time and enjoy the freedom of casual dating. If a person has children at home, it is wise not to bring strangers home every night. This could be damaging to the children.

The second step of moving on from a divorce is to decide when the right time is for a new love. Some people have rebounds that usually end worse than the marriage breakup. It is vital to take time and play the field. When the time is right, a new love will fall from the sky. It is important to get over the divorce before seeking out the new individual for a long term relationship. Bringing old baggage to a new connection could be harmful for both people. To truly be happy in a new place, the old problems and issues need to be dealt with and gotten rid of.

If an individual has an overly hard time relieving the pain and frustration of their divorce, professional help may be required. There is always a healing time after any type of breakup. However, when it completely controls a person's life, it is time to talk about it. Find a friend or hire a professional to talk things out with. Before a person can move on they need to realize their faults and understand why the relationship ended. It is never just one individual's responsibility - both people in the relationship had problems they could not agree upon.

A great place to test the waters and get to know new people are online dating services. With thousands of members with diverse backgrounds, you'll soon find that you are not alone in your desire to open a new chapter in the book of your life after divorce.

Signs That Your Husband or Boyfriend is Cheating

2007-05-02T20:04:00.000-07:00

Signs That Your Husband or Boyfriend is Cheating

You have a gnawing suspicion that things aren’t quite right in your relationship. You may even suspect that your man is cheating on you. Short of catching him in the act, what are the signs to look for? If you want to know how to tell if your boyfriend or husband is cheating, pay attention to the following clues:

Look For Signs of Change - Anything, any change good or bad. A more attentive husband can be as much of a sign of a cheater as a suddenly inattentive one. Men who cheat often feel guilty and that guilt can lead to outward signs of love and affection towards their wives. They foolishly believe that giving them more affection and attention when they are around less makes up for the fact that they’re giving someone else love and affection as well.
Sudden Changes in Schedule - If your boyfriend or husband is cheating, one of the ways to tell may be if their schedule suddenly changes. The man who used to be right home for dinner at 6pm suddenly has late night office work. Going into work at 9am suddenly becomes a 7am office arrival. An especially good clue is the need to suddenly run back to the office after a phone call – especially if it’s a wrong number call.
Change in the Adjustment of the Passenger Seat in His Car – It’s possible that he’s been escorting his new love interest around in his car on the sly, so this is one thing to look for. Assuming that you’re normally the passenger in his car, the position of the seat shouldn’t change unless someone else has been sitting in it.
A Sudden Interest in How He Looks – This is a classic sign. The husband who didn’t care about his little potbelly is suddenly at the gym working out. Grecian formula turns up in the medicine cabinet. The slob you’re married too turns into a Calvin Klein connoisseur.
Is He Suddenly Picking Arguments With You That Have No Basis? - Some men will pick a fight with their wife or girlfriend so they can have a reason to storm out of the house and to their new lover Not all who cheat behave the same way, of course, but you should wonder if he is seeing someone else if you begin to see this pattern.
He Suddenly Needs More “Space” - If your husband or boyfriend goes from wanting to spend the quiet nights at home and the fun weekends with you, to having to work late and take a business trip on Saturday, these are clues that he may well be cheating. A man who starts telling you that he needs his space, or has to have more time to himself may in fact be giving that extra time to a new love interest.

How to tell if your boyfriend or husband is cheating isn’t the same as a decade or two ago. It used to be that perfume odors on clothes or in the car, or a lot of wrong numbers or hang-ups on the home phone were the primary indicators. Now women and men are equally apt to wear cologne, and many women don’t wear any at all. And, cheaters have taken to using their cell phone, instant messaging, text messaging or e-mail as contacts. Chat rooms and dating sites are instant means to cheating that leave no home phone clues as well. Of course, there’s also the issue of whether online sex is cheating. That would be much more difficult to tell until and unless you found the clues on the computer.

By themselves, the clues listed above are not necessarily proof that your man is cheating, but suddenly seeing one or more of these signs should raise a red flag if you are already suspicious of his activities. These are often big clues on how to tell if your boyfriend or husband is cheating.

Signs That Your Husband or Boyfriend is Cheating

Attract A New Love Partner with Feng Shui

2007-05-01T18:30:00.000-07:00

Attract A New Love Partner with Feng Shui

Here are some easy rituals to attract a new love partner:

There’s an ancient east Asian concept called Feng Shui that says that how you arrange your furniture and other household or office objects affects the smoothness or bumpiness of your life. Feng Shui teaches that one of the rituals to attract a new love partner is easy – buy household objects in pairs. If you have two symmetrical chairs around your home fireplace, or two identical ottomans, or perhaps two of the same type of picture frame on your desk, you will bring a “couples” energy to your life. The southwest corner of your home is considered by Feng Shui experts to be the love corner of your home.

You will then enhance your attraction of a new love partner by putting your two symmetrical items in that corner of your home. Prior to taking this step, however, you must clean and organize that corner. Putting your couples items in your southwest home corner when it’s messy or dirty, according to Feng Shui, may be an easy ritual to attract a new love partner, but the relationship will be disorganized as well.

The photos, paintings and other pictures that you choose for your home can attract a new love partner as well, and choosing the right ones is an easy ritual. Pictures of love can draw love to you. It’s far better, for example, to have a painting of children holding hands or hugging, or dogs playing happily together, then to hang angry or even abstract art on your walls. Should you yearn for other types of portraits, paintings or photos, then go ahead and put them in one part of your home and save the love pictures for your bedroom or special place that you frequent.

Burn incense or candles in your home. These are easy rituals to attract a new love partner. Aromatherapy has proven not only to stir feelings of love, but also feeling of well being, inner peace and happiness. What better way to open your heart to a new love partner than to be happy and show that? People like to be around happy people, and people that are at peace and proud of themselves. Red and pink candles are supposed to be the candles of love. Some even suggest you pray for love in front of the candles and while we’re not sure about this, it’s an easy ritual. Unless you’re opposed to prayer, it can’t hurt and it just might attract a new love partner.

The caution, of course, with candles, is that you burn them only in the room where you or someone else is going to be there to see that they’re safe. If you think you’re becoming so relaxed and so at peace that you’re about to fall asleep put out your candles. You can’t attract a new love partner as your home burns down around you!

Attract A New Love Partner with Feng Shui

Dating Success Checklist For Guys

2007-05-01T16:19:00.000-07:00

Dating Success Checklist For Guys

Guys: are you about to go out for a night on the town and plan on (or hope to) bring someone home with you? If so, there's a handy checklist you should skim before you go out. It will help to impress the ladies and should become a regular part of your dating routine:

Make Your Bed - Be sure to change the sheets and, if necessary, the blankets and bedspread.

Clean Your Bathroom - The toilet and the shower, tub and sink should be spotless. Be sure there are plenty of clean towels and don't forget to make sure there is plenty of toilet
paper (remember - women use more than you do!)

Stock Your Kitchen With Breakfast Food (the kind you can cook) - Bacon, eggs, toast, coffee and juice are the best choices. Muffins are great, and even yogurt is good. Cold cereal is not the coolest thing to offer a woman who has just spent the night in your home for the first time!

Be Prepared With a Light Snack and Something to Drink (both alcoholic and non) – for that evening as well.

Prepare Your Answering Machine - Be sure to do one of two things: turn the volume off on the machine and turn the ringer off on the phone, or unplug the phone. If you use an answering machine instead of voice mail anyone in its vicinity can hear the message left when you don’t answer the phone. The last thing you want is for some other woman to be calling and saying something romantic or lascivious, or even worse, some other woman calling you some kind of dog for ditching her while your current date is within earshot!

Keep Plenty of Condoms Ready by Your Bed (but out of sight) - You want to be prepared but at the same time not looking too eager :)

Remove All Traces of Any Left Over Items From Other Women - Make
sure there are no used second toothbrushes, no earrings or even earring backs, no panties or perfume, and no women’s magazines.

Clean Your House Top to Bottom - It doesn’t have to be spic and span but dirty clothes should be in the hamper and dirty dishes in the sink – not on the coffee table with the fork stuck to them.

Wear Clean Underwear And Socks That Are Free of Holes (as your own mother would tell you)

Dim Your Lights Before You Leave For The Evening - If your lights don’t have a dimmer switch and they’re not three way then pick up some 40-60 watt bulbs and replace your current bright lights. You might have some candles ready for the bedroom, but again don’t bring those out right away.

I'm sure you can think of some other things that belong on this list, but these are the most important things to have on your "dating success checklist" before you head out on a date looking for love and romance.

Dating Success Checklist For Guys