Friday, September 30, 2011

What Seniors Are Looking For

Finding yourself single again after what seems like a life time of marriage and being over 50 can feel like falling down the proverbial well. At least half of women over the age of sixty live alone compared to only one out of 6 men. Dating has certainly changed a lot in the past 30 years or so. It is not all that unusual to see granny's buying condoms with their support hose. Older men are also a bit confused by modern dating etiquette, and are somewhat uncertain as to whether to be chivalrous, treat their female date with the same consideration as a male friend, or go dutch treat.

Several old television relic’s have proven more than once that we all have a come back or two in us, but with every failed date that idea, like the natural color of our hair, is slowly fading away|Most of us would like to believe that we can come back from the ashes of a previous relationship a few times, but after a while, with little luck, hope will no longer seem so spring eternal anymore|Approaching a relationship the second or third time around can be pretty daunting, especially if you have been out of the game for a few decades because of a successful relationship.  Finding yourself splitting in your 50's can be a very shattering experience. Becoming a widow or widower is even more so. People tend to be a bit more set in their ways and comfortable with their life styles when they are in their 50's and beyond. This makes it much more difficult to find someone compatible than when you are in your more flexible 20's. If you are looking to find someone who just meshes with you and your lifestyle, the odds are severely against you. If you intend to find a new life partner, then you must be prepared to do a few changes. These do not have to be radical, but you do need to do some things differently. Personally, I always hated golf, but I took it up so that I would have a better chance of finding someone – and hey, I grew to like it, so it was not a waste.

I have had dates that demanded I pay for half the meal, the gas they used to come to my home and pick me up, and to add insult to injury demanded that for our next date I pick them up,  how pig headed is that. I guess I am not that liberated yet. You will often have to sit through an obnoxious evening of stories about their current job or past profession, their deceased wife,  ex girl friends, how good they are in bed, and how their hemorrhoids are inflamed and they cannot sit for another minute. Oh, and to top it all off, proceed to tell you that they have a new prescription for Viagra.

And its no picnic for the men.  The most recurring male horror story is the woman who is trying to control from the first date, or someone who is in such a hurry to set their hooks in that they are trying to move in after a couple of weeks. All of these are symptoms of a fundamental incompatibility with each other from the get-go.

Why is it so hard for seniors to find someone compatible?  Life is purported to be simpler as you age. Unfortunately this does not seem to apply to mature people dating. So what is the problem? It is not as if we are amateurs in the dating game! It is not as if we do not know what we want. So why is it so tough? Could it be we have our standards set too high? Most likely the answer is no! Older people want the same things that the younger set are are searching for in a relationship. They all want:

1) Someone To Listen
2) Someone To Care
3)Someone Interesting
4)Someone Compassionate
5)Someone Loving
6)Someone Understanding
7)Someone Compatible
8)Someone With Similar Interests
9)Someone With similar Values
10)Someone To Share Our Lives With
11)Someone Who Respects Me
12)Someone I Can Respect

Is that too much to ask for?

After discussing my personal life with some of my good friends. My friends suggested that I try one of the dozens of senior dating sites available online. I have to say that I was loath to try a dating site, but after some encouraging insights from my friends, and after finding myself seriously considering proposing to my vibrator, I decided to give it a go. I turned on my computer and looked for senior dating sites. There were too many. It was just too much.

It was a little confusing for me at first. As I said, there were so many sites I didn't know which one to try, I was completely out of my league. I explained my dilemma to one one my friends and she suggested a site for me. This site is a dating site rating service. They have tested thousands of dating sites, and have a list of the sites that they recommend. All of them are categorized to make it easier to select. My friend said that she had signed up to a couple of the recommended sites just to make sure that she would find someone fast.

She said that is how she met her boyfriend. And all this time I thought she met this wonderful man at work, boy was I taken aback. So I gave the same ones a try, it was simple I just created a profile, told them what I was looking for in a man, and they did the rest. It didn't take long before they had several men that were exactly what I have been looking for. I'm in dating heaven! For the first time in in what seems like centuries I am actually going out with fabulous men and enjoying my self, life does get better with age.

If you are a mature man or women and you are searching for the person you want to spend the rest of your life with with, then take the first step. Check out the link below and join one or two of the sites. You will never regret it.
http://www.top100datingpersonals.com/seniordating.php

Saturday, September 17, 2011

Did You Lose Something Intimate?




I was still in college and was really looking forward to going out with this great looking guy that I had the hots for. To me this was going to be the date that topped all dates before, so it was very important to me to make a great impression on him. He was one of those few guys that just seemed to have it all together. He was handsome, smart, great in sports and a really nice guy to everyone he met. Most of the popular girls had dated him, and that put a lot of pressure on me because I just felt that just by being with him I was competing in that class.  Of course I also felt that if I handled myself well, then dating him would actually give me some more status around campus.

With that in mind, I made sure that I had all my ducks in a row.  I weaselled some money out of my dad and bought a new outfit. Nothing sleazy, but I made sure that it accentuated what few assets that I had to offer. It was simple, a plain patterned skirt and a nice blouse. Nothing fancy, because we were just going to the movies. It would not do to overdress. The night of our date I showered, put on my best lingerie (in case we got in an accident and ended up in the hospital – LOL) and put a lot of extra effort into my hair, cosmetics, and nails.

My anticipation was at its highest level possible. In my mind I had built this up to be the most important day of my life.

He was on time to pick me up, which was a great start. The movie was exciting, and the dinner was amazing. We decided to go to a local nightclub for some dancing, and that is when the evening soured. Much to my chagrin, just after I started dancing, the waistband snapped on my panties. They started to slide down, and the more I moved, the lower they fell. When they fell to my ankles, I just quickly kicked them away. Fortunately the floor was so full of dancers that nobody seemed to notice. I kept blushing a bit every time I noticed someone step on what was once my very best panties.

Other than that one event, our time together dancing was one of the most cherished memories of my life. He held me tight, and we were just meshed like two synchronized gears. We talked about all kinds of stuff between dances and sets. He was as fun to me as I seemed to be to him.

When it came time to leave, disaster seemed to follow. We pulled up in front of my apartment and he leaned over to kiss me goodnight, it was a great kiss but not one that told me he expected something more. It was very sweet and sensual it was the kind of kiss that lingered. All of a sudden he screeched “OW!” That’s not really what I wanted to hear while we were sharing our first kiss. He then pulled away and I could see a little blood tricking down his neck, as I was about to hyperventilate I realized what had happened. It seems the wire from my bra had broken free protruding through my blouse and when he leaned towards me to kiss me it stabbed him in the neck, at that point if I could have crawled into the glove compartment I would have. But as not to show my embarrassment I took a Kleenex out of my pocket and began to clean the wound, saying “I'm so sorry, how embarrassing please forgive me”. However he was just so understanding about the whole thing, and we even dated for a while, but I always felt that with every kiss after that he was wondering if he would be attacked again by my attack bra.

If Aesop had written this tale, there would be a morel. I guess in this case the moral is to not keep your best bra and panties in the drawer so long that he under wire gets brittle with age and that the elastic in your panties deteriorate. If they are your best bra and panties, you might as well get some use out of them rather than have them rot in your drawer. I mean, how expensive is it to replace them anyway?


So if you are in college like I was but are having problems finding someone to date, then you should try this link:
College Dating

Saturday, September 10, 2011

Can You Really Find Real Love Online



This article is focused on the use of online dating sites to find love and happiness. I have observed the online dating industry for some time now, more as a curiosity than as a member.  I joined several dating sites some years ago and ended up getting caught up in how it is that people interact online versus real life. I have also tapped into my own extensive circle of friends and acquaintances in this same time period and also witnessed most aspects of the offline dating world as well.

So what have I found?
Interestingly enough, not much that has not already been discussed before.

When it comes to people meeting in real life, well, that has been going on for millennium, I have absolutely nothing to add on this topic that has not already been hashed out by writers since the time that man first developed writing. 

Internet dating, which is a higher tech offshoot of the matchmaking services that have been around for hundreds of years, is a relatively new beast, and as such, there are some insights that can be passed on that most people have yet to learn.

So lets start with some popular misconceptions:
Dating Sites Have Wonderful Matching Algorithms That Guarantee Me a Perfect Match
False – Some dating sites work very hard trying to perfect their compatibility algorithms but some others just use superficial matching criteria – what is interesting is that neither extreme of these sites perform statistically better than the other.  The reason is that, quite frankly, there are two main obstacles that cannot be overcome when you are trying to match by formula.

It Is Less Work To Find My Match On a Dating Site
False – To make a long story short, it takes a lot of time getting to know anyone that you hope to be your life partner. You just cannot take any shortcuts here. In fact, for this aspect of using a dating site it takes more effort because of the anonymous nature of the environment. Everyone is using made up handles, so it is not as if you can check with a mutual friend to see what they are really like.

Internet Dating Sites Are More Likely To Find Someone For Me To Date
True – Internet Dating Sites Are More Likely To Find My Soul Mate Dating Sites Are Better At Connecting You To Your Soul Mate.
False – Quantity does not equal quality. Just because you can see and interact with a lot more people online than you can in real life does not mean that you are being exposed to quality people that you have any real compatibility with, and even if you are compatible from an intellectual point of view, there is no guarantee that you will find the chemistry with them that you need to achieve soul mate status.


So Why Would I Use An Internet Dating Site Then?Well, they are really good for people who are open to discovering more about what they are really interested in. They are good for people who have not been successful finding their soul mate in real life because quite frankly they are looking for the wrong type of person in the wrong places.  If you approach online dating with an open mind, you will likely be able to interact with many more disparate people then you normally hang out with, and in that process, discover more about what you like in other people, which may just change your mind about who you need in your life to complete you.

To that end, you should approach using an online dating system the way you would approach getting an education. It is possible to educate yourself without going to school, but going to a school makes it easier to obtain a well-rounded education. Similarly, it is possible for you to find the love of your life without using a dating site, but you will likely be exposed to a whole lot more varying people at a dating site than you would by tapping into your circle of friends..

So, open your heart and give online dating a try.

You can start here:
http://www.top100datingpersonals.com/onlinedating.php