Misadventures in Cleveland Dating

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• Bad Online Dates and Epic Meltdowns Courtesy of Match.com

  When it comes to dating in Cleveland, one week can make a big difference. It rarely does, but anything can happen, right? I was at a dating low point last Saturday night. It was a dark, dark place in my less than fulfilling  online dating saga. First, my ex-boyfriend walked right past my car downtown […]

• Leveraging an Online Dating Success Story. Maybe. Sort Of.

  Welcome to another installment of Stupid Shit Guys Do to (Hopefully) Get Sex My recent date may have looked like Patrick Dempsey, but Mr. McDreamy he was not. Return to Dating 101 – if a man repeatedly claims to to be a “hopeless romantic,” he’s not. McNotDreamy never missed an opportunity to inform me about […]

• Single After Thirty: 15 Reasons it’s Not Totally Terrible

  Single after 30? The internet is flooded with instructions to embrace your single status, how to love yourself and shitty advice imploring you to change your ways – or else. Fuck ‘em. Being single in your twenties was fun. Then, one day you wake up and realize everyone got hitched. The drunk party photos that […]

• Close Encounters of the Online Dating Kind

  I’m having dinner with this guy – third date – and out of nowhere he asks, “Do you believe in aliens?” I thought he was joking and was simply asking it to see if I was gullible or crazy (Anne Heche style). My answer, “I have trouble believing in anything that I haven’t seen, but […]

• Sex on the Third Date Rule: Time to Buck This Dating Trend

  The third date rule – Is sex on the third date expected? (Yes. Fairly often. Seems to be the norm.) If you use an online dating site, odds are that both you and your significant other from the site are dating multiple people. I’m certain the men I’m seeing are dating other women. It’s never […]