http://www.onlinedatingbook.co.uk/blog A blog about online dating, relationships and other related issues Wed, 27 Feb 2008 23:16:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A very close friend of mine has been wrongfully arrested and detained in Dubai since the 26th of January. So far, without being officially charged. 31-year-old Cat Le-Huy, Head of Technology at Endemol UK, was detained and arrested during a tourist visit to Dubai for carrying melatonin, an over-the-counter jet ... http://www.onlinedatingbook.co.uk/blog/uncategorized/please-help-my-friend This morning I had the dubious pleasure of having to wake up much earlier than normal to be interviewed on the radio. The matter at hand was the age old question: who should pay for the meal when dating? I followed a bitter-sounding man who said women should pay for their ... http://www.onlinedatingbook.co.uk/blog/relationships-and-dating/who-should-pay-for-the-first-date One question I keep getting asked is "what is the best dating site?" The short answer is, of course: there is no such thing. Where is the best place to meet the love of your life? Ask any person who's happily married and they'll tell you the place where ... http://www.onlinedatingbook.co.uk/blog/online-dating-tips/the-best-online-dating-site This may seem obvious, I know from my own experience how hard it is sometimes to forget that you are writing to an audience that may not know anything about the subject you are writing about. I've seen quite a lot of profiles where people seem to almost write ... http://www.onlinedatingbook.co.uk/blog/online-dating-tips/your-dating-profile-dont-assume-prior-knowledge You know you're working too hard when you have to take a break from your own blog. Normal service will resume shortly. http://www.onlinedatingbook.co.uk/blog/uncategorized/just-realised-i-havent-written-anything-in-a-while (No. Not the horrible Disney version. The original version: Andersen's at a push, but he probably ripped it off from a cautionary tale mothers used to tell their daughters before bedtime. Andersen's version is on Wikipedia, complete with a fairly Christian spin.) In my recent column for Gorgeous Dating I wrote ... http://www.onlinedatingbook.co.uk/blog/relationships-and-dating/why-the-story-of-the-little-mermaid-should-be-taught-to-every-single-child Here's a seemingly rather shocking case: an American man dating on a sex site met up and slept with a girl whose profile said she was 18, only to discover later (when police surrounded his house) that he'd slept with a 14 year old girl. Said guy sued said ... http://www.onlinedatingbook.co.uk/blog/industry-stuff/dating-site-age-verification Last week, I went to a tango class for the first time in a while. It was a new class with an entirely new crowd of people I'd never danced with before. having danced with about 10 different guys throughout the class, I was suddenly struck by how much ... http://www.onlinedatingbook.co.uk/blog/relationships-and-dating/non-verbal-communications I run into a lot of people who tell me they tried online dating and it didn't work for them. When I ask for more details and get the full story, it usually turns out they'd tried one dating site and when it didn't meet their expectations assumed all ... http://www.onlinedatingbook.co.uk/blog/online-dating-tips/online-dating-sites-theyre-not-all-the-same Super-short notice but I will be on BBC World News' "The world today" at about 7pm UK time, which is in about half an hour or so. I will be commenting on this news story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6943616.stm http://www.onlinedatingbook.co.uk/blog/latest-news/shimrit-on-bbc-world-news