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Excuse me, but we’re in the middle of a series here. You need to get a pass from your homeroom teacher before you can study for the AP Fascination exam with the cool kids. Just kidding–no pass necessary in Cupid’s Lab. But seriously, it’d behoove you to read Part 1 and Part 2 of The [...]

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In the first installment of this series, I warned you about the evils of vomiting data on unsuspecting dating-profile browsers. But, since I have just recently gotten RE-hooked on Mad Men with its stylish smoke-filled cliffhangers, I cagily tried to get you to come back for installment 2. Just call me Matthew Weiner. I now [...]

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In the space below, tell about yourself. It’s so official-sounding. So reminiscent of filling in Scantron form ovals with number-two pencils as a bored-looking test proctor reads from a College Board instruction booklet. And most people, I believe, read that cryptic instruction and go a bit dry-mouthed and squirrelly. Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…. And the mind races, and [...]

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He’s in the Online Dating Privacy Business

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(And What He’s Seen May Shock You) Privacy in online dating–that’s the subject of today’s interview with John Skorick, founder of a mobile-number alias company called MyAKA. Privacy has been much on my mind of late. A couple reasons for that. I mean, sometimes I walk around in my blissful little bubble assuming the universe [...]

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Online Dating and Cell Phone Privacy: Tales of Limpets and Strumpets

Thumbnail image for Online Dating and Cell Phone Privacy: Tales of Limpets and Strumpets March 19, 2013 Safety and Privacy

Is “private online dating” an oxymoron? One of my consulting clients mentioned to me this week that a seemingly charming, secure man she “met” online was instantly transmogrified by rejection into a desperate, pleading Gollum-like wretch. Well, okay, it wasn’t quite that bad—I’m sorry, I just like a good intro paragraph. The actual scenario went [...]

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How My OKCupid Profile Experiment Worked Out: Part 3

Thumbnail image for How My OKCupid Profile Experiment Worked Out: Part 3 March 15, 2013 First Meetings

I left off last week on a cliffhanger Well, the dating-blog equivalent of a cliffhanger, I suppose. Which might technically be considered more of a bar-stool-hanger. Would my online dating experiment lead to any interesting discoveries? A great second date? Good blog fodder? And what might the intriguing and winsome Movie Theater Guy do to [...]

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Gluten-Free Dating?

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What could a gluten-free diet possibly have to do with dating? Good question. A lot, perhaps–and I’ll explain in a minute. But first, some context. I’ve gotten some reader mail recently about struggles with weight. And flagging confidence due to weight. Not to mention procrastination on getting good photos, cute new clothes, a Match subscription…and [...]

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Want to Spice Up That Dating Profile? First, Break Some Rules

Thumbnail image for Want to Spice Up That Dating Profile? First, Break Some Rules March 12, 2013 Kickass Profiles

I think it’s time for the Baby Boomers to redefine dating. And today I got to offer the 50-plus set my two cents’ worth on the top dating/relationships site, DatingAdvice.com. The Boomer generation knows a lil something about rule-breaking, so I’m guessing my advice is pretty tame in comparison with being a campus radical or [...]

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One Man’s Questions from the Online Dating Battlefield

Thumbnail image for One Man’s Questions from the Online Dating Battlefield March 11, 2013 The Male Perspective

Recently, I caught up with fellow dating blogger and tale-teller Lawrence Fisher. He’s also the author of Kill Me Now, a humorous account of dodging bullets deep in the dating battlefield while searching for THE ONE. Since I like to include some thoughtful, witty male perspective in Cupid’s Lab, I asked Lawrence if he’d be [...]

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How My OKCupid Profile Worked Out: Part 2

Thumbnail image for How My OKCupid Profile Worked Out: Part 2 March 5, 2013 First Meetings

In Part One of my tangent-filled tale of the return to the wilds of OKCupid… I offered a little backstory. Which consisted of the following totally self-indulgent plot threads: How a torturous EOR (end of relationship) and a few holiday-time curveballs had dented up my mojo pretty good. How my eagerness to escape into pile [...]

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