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Category Archives: Dating
NYP: The new hot hookup scene: Bar mitzvahs
When I moved to Los Angeles in 1994, I was particularly social for 18 months. Most of the women I was social with I met in shul. NYP: Don’t save your cutest cocktail dress for yet another friend’s wedding: The … Continue reading
Are You Phony If You Act Differently Around Women?
Doc Love says: Because you’re going to start treating women as women, and when you do that instead of treating them like men, you’re going to be more successful in your relationships. And you’re not tricking a woman into liking … Continue reading
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The Strippercise Girl Who Went To Aish Ha Torah
I met a Jewish girl who went to Aish at a bar and I bought her some drinks and I drove her home and she was telling me about this Strippercise class she was taking and then we got back … Continue reading
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What were the warning signs you were about to get dumped?
Doc Love says: “When he gets dumped, it’s usually because he’s either being too nice, too available, too vulnerable and sweet, too predictable or malleable, and easily controlled. She therefore loses respect for him and her sexual attraction towards him … Continue reading
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Very Ambitious
So a 44yo Latina with a high school education wants to meet me, according to POF. She works in a warehouse and describes herself as “very ambitious.” * So even Orthodox Jews are becoming PC. I was talking in shul … Continue reading
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Tinder Is My Favorite Dating App
To separate the wheat from the chaff on Tinder, my first question is always, “Have you read any good books lately?” So far I’ve had four interesting online conversations but no dates. I’m searching 18-40yo within ten miles. I’m not … Continue reading
The Gamma Male’s Rules for Survival
Dan emails: 1. The quality of the girls you shoot for is less important than the quality of the men who are your competition. 2. It is not the girls who are rejecting you, but the more desirable men who … Continue reading
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She Turned Out To Be In Her 70s!
So, a friend of mine my age, answered a singles ad on Craigslist and talked to the woman and she turned out to be in her 70s! On the positive side, she’s in Fleetwood Mac. Yes, a friend of mine. … Continue reading
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Men Want One-Stop Shopping
Relationship expert (Understandmen.com) Alison Armstrong was on Dennis Prager’s radio show today. “Men want to be devoted to his mate and give her everything she desires. But his mate has to provide him with what he needs – admiration, nurturing, … Continue reading
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Most Of My Girlfriends Were Simply The Best I Could Do At The Time
I’m reading Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find and Keep Love and am struck by the description of avoidants as longing for the phantom ex or dreaming of the perfect partner, “one … Continue reading