Yesterday, I received an email from a newly-separated woman who’d recently signed up on a dating site. She wrote: “I read your article that said you don’t spend a lot of time talking to prospective dates on the phone or IM because you find it sets up false expectations. My concern is that I’m going to meet [...]
I felt it when I first awoke this morning. A feeling I haven’t felt in a long time. One that squeezed at my heart and sent darkness flooding through my bloodstream. Sadness. My Good Man is gone. And this day has not been the same without him.
According to my best friend Hali, I do. Disqualify men too quickly, that is. Over drinks this past weekend, I was telling her about my dating life, when she quickly inserted: “Ummm Delaine…what dating life?” I laughed, rather taken aback. “What do you mean? You know I’m still on a couple of dating sites.”
A newly-divorcing woman wrote me this weekend to say she’d begun internet dating after 10 years of marriage. “But I don’t get this cyber sex thing,” she said. “It seems like many men are looking for it. And in all honesty, I’ve been tempted. Have YOU had cyber sex Delaine?” Well (clearing throat), even though [...]
Good Morning America recently featured a report on cheating wives. And two things about this news-clip stood out for me: one, how society still ’gasps’ when its women who are choosing to have affairs. And two, how the internet is making cheating so easy. According to adultery expert, Bonnie Weil, an estimated 50-62% of married women cheat. And admittedly, I [...]
When a friend of mine first recommended I try internet dating, a social avenue that hadn’t even existed the last time I was single,I scoffed. I mean, I’d heard of it, but I assumed it was full of weirdos and creeps. Nonetheless, curiosity got the better of me – after all, how else was I ever [...]
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