Thursday’s Thoughts From a Bartender: My Date Tells Me What to Do
By Daniel Ponsky What is it inside of us human beings that stir our attraction for others? No easy question if you think about all of the different people you know and then think about the reasons why you like them. Is it on personal, social or business terms? Do they help make you money [...]
Date Song Pick of the Week: Dawes – Love Is All I Am
Dawes – Love Is All I Am
A Woman’s POV: How it Makes Me Feel When… I’m Having Sex for the Sake of Sex
By Jennifer Kelton Let’s get straight down to the hard and fast (yes, the sexual innuendo is intended) bottom line—none of us would be here if not for sex and it’s genetic, primal, and uncontrollable driving force. Sex is the motivation and behind many great movies, raunchy porn, music, and art. Sex has created multi-billion-dollar [...]
Sasha Speaks: Answering Your Most Private Dating Questions — Is Social Climbing a Dating Deal Breaker?
Dear Sasha, I’ve been seeing this woman for about three months now; she is great in most ways except she’s a huge social climber and will cancel plans at the last moment if she thinks it will advance her social status, both socially and in business. Is this a dating deal breaker? Sincerely, Is social climbing a [...]
Date Song Pick of the Week: Bon Iver – Skinny Love (Live on Jools Holland)
Bon Iver – Skinny Love (Live on Jools Holland)
Tuesday’s Topic: Like, Love or Dopamine – Part 3
Book Excerpt – Don’t Use My Sweater Like a Towel By Jennifer Kelton Following lust is the romantic love stage. Fisher explains that romantic love is “not an emotion. Rather it’s a motivation system. It’s a drive. It’s part of the reward system of the brain.”Dopamine and PEA levels begin to rise,increasing our excitement about [...]
A Woman’s POV: How it Makes Me Feel When… All My Friends Have Boyfriends and I Don’t
By Jess Downey – Not What I Ordered I can remember when I was in college and I felt like the token single girl. All my friends had boyfriends and even if those relationships ended their phases of singledom never seemed to last as long as mine did. It also seemed like every girl I [...]
Tuesday’s Topic: Like, Love or Dopamine – Part 2
Book Excerpt – Don’t Use My Sweater Like a Towel By Jennifer Kelton Oxytocin is a peptide of nine amino acids that was, until recently, thought only to induce labor, lactation and bonding between a mother and child. Now it is believed to be instrumental in attachment between romantic partners as well. It is secreted [...]
Date Song Pick of the Week: Ben Harper – In the Colors
Ben Harper – In the Colors
Sunday Bad Date Funnies: Never Kiss a Frog — The All-Work-and-No-Play Frog
Never Kiss a Frog — The All-Work-and-No-Play Frog
I did not wake up one morning and say “hey I think I’d like a man use my sweater like a towel, write a candid dating book, become a dating expert, the CEO and founder of a social dating site and have three blogs.”
