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Hey, Happy Singles Awareness Day! If you're not attached, Valentine's Day holds many possibilities, and many of them suck. You can ignore it, you can shrug it off, you can meet up with your friends and declare them the true loves of your life. Or you can be like Cindy Guidry. According to an interview in USA Today, she's 43, single, unemployed, happy, and has written a book called The Last Single Woman In America. Sometimes Guidry lies about her age — and she adds years! "I'd rather have people think I'm a really good-looking 50-year-old than tell someone I'm 32 and have them wonder what the hell I've been doing for those 32 years," she explains. In any case, she'll probably be drinking alone tonight. "I've had so many single Valentine's Days, at this point, it's just another day," she says. "Maybe I'll go to a bar with my book." More »
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Valentine's Day: One week away! And in honor of the not-so-momentous holiday, the Times of London is offering up a valentine of sorts called "The Best Chat-Up Lines In The World". Thing is, the pickup lines listed are some of the worst we've ever heard. (From Germany: "Your eyes are the same color as my Porsche.") Actually, the story is really just about all the fumbling ways dudes try to approach women: A German writer says his countrymen suffer from Caligynephobia (also known as Venustraphobia) - the fear of chatting up hot chicks. As for Italian men, they're "pretty forthright," says an Alitalia flight attendant named Daniela. "They don't hesitate to compliment you in the street on your beauty, ciao bella and all that. They even whistle." Classy! More »
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According to the Better Business Bureau, complaints about online dating services are on the rise. Writes Kimberly Palmer of U.S. News & World Report: "Consumers said they were set up with people who did not meet their criteria, including some who were already married or who smoked despite their request for a nonsmoker." As an online dating veteran, I've had some great dates and some bad dates. But it is my distinct pleasure to share with you now the story of My Worst Date Ever™, made possible by a popular online dating site last winter. My communications via the internet with this unnamed gentleman were all fine and good. And when we spoke on the phone on a Tuesday evening to make plans for a Friday, that was alright, too. He called again on Thursday night to say how excited/nervous he was to meet me. Then he called again on Friday, during the day. Three times. More »
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If you're single, you probably have an idea in your head of what Mr. (or Ms.) Right is like. According to, ahem, a certain UK newspaper, female subscribers to the site UKdating.com have a wish list of over 20 characteristics, which, when culled together, add up to the perfect man. Who is this dreamboat? He's at least 5'10', dark-haired, handsome, with blue eyes, his own property, has a university degree and a silver Mercedes, doesn't smoke, likes pets, is clean-shaven, loves movies, hates football and has never been married. Writer Tanya Gold admits that she has already tried a slew of Imperfect Men: gay, fat, married, etc. So she decided to try for some Perfect Men; guys who fit the criteria set up by the 40,000 women on the dating site. Guess what? She didn't like any of them; and none of them liked her. So what's the secret formula to finding true love? More »
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Let's just say you're a heterosexual single woman, looking for a guy. Newsflash! It's tough out there. And the idiotic advice certain news outlets are pushing doesn't help. Take this "Six Women You Need To Meet" piece in Men's Heath. The premise is that guys get stuck dating the same kind of woman over and over and need to "mix up the playlist." Not a bad idea, but the categories of women are so stereotypic and generalized, it's ridiculous. Apparently, chicks fall into six types: The Urban Sophisticate ("uninhibited and nicely groomed"); The Arty Hipster ("The good news: She's dirty. The bad news: Her bed's not that clean. Tell her if she changes the sheets before you come over, you'll take her to see Blonde Redhead — in Japan"); The Vegan Yoga Gal ("great skin and a long neck"); The Alpha Female ("efficient and skilled"); The Intimacy Junkie (The sex is amazing... She'll do anything, including some things that scare you... Tell her you'll do it if she gets waxed.") and The Happy Homemaker ("accommodating and eager at first, less so with each offspring"). Wow, not demeaning at all! So which one are you? More »
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