Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Dating In A Small Town

Guidelines for Dating in a Small Town

Dating in a small town can be difficult but it is not impossible. Many eligible bachelors and bachelorettes reside in small towns across the country. However dating in a small town does present several unique situations that people from the big city should be aware of.

Bear in mind that unlike in the city, dating in a small town will require a bit of hard work to find a potential date. Small town people are more reclusive especially towards outsiders that originated from major cities. Integrating into the community is the first step to dating in a small town.

Integrating into a Small Town Community

Keep in mind that small towns often have an exclusive environment wherein gaining the trust of local residents plays a big factor. People that live in small towns are often wary of outsiders. Therefore earning the trust of local residents is a good way of integrating into a community where the word of mouth often governs.

Blending into the neighborhood requires a certain level of finesse in order to gain their confidence. A good way to get together and meet a lot of the locals is to get into the good graces of the rural community. Establishing a good reputation in the community will certainly help attract the interest of local people and draw in potential dates in no time.

The ideal places to meet and greet small town folk are the supermarket, the local church and the public library.

Popular Small Town Hangouts to Visit

Going around the community is a great way to get acquainted with the people in a small town. Creating friendships with various people in the neighborhood helps build connections within the local group that could eventually lead to the possibility of finding a date in a small town. There are several places around small towns that are typical hangouts of the local populace.

ท Local Supermarket

The resident supermarket is the best place to meet and greet most of the members of the local community. Everyone in the community shops there and the possibility of finding a potential date along the aisles is almost certain. It also helps to be friendly with the grocer in case he or she knows some eligible local citizens who are also interested in dating in a small town.

ท Community Church

The local Church is another local place to meet and greet with locals. Many people in small towns generally take church activities quite seriously and attending Sunday mass is a good way to gain their trust. It is also a good place to survey the crowd to figure out who’s who.

It also saves one the humiliation of trying to hook up with someone in the community who is already married. Bear in mind that gossip spreads fast in small towns and asking a married person out on a date is the fastest way to get blacklisted from dating in a small town.

ท The Public Library

The public library is a great place to encounter many interesting locals in the community. Most of the time, single people in small towns frequent the public library or local bookstores as a leisurely pursuit. Although the thought of visiting the public library may not seem like an exciting venue for dating in a small town. It is always best to keep an open mind and allow fate the chance to work its magic.

Other Likely Hangouts for Dating in a Small Town

There are various other places in the community to explore for dating in a small town. It is often a good idea to go to places that is personally appealing to an individual in order to find locals in the community that also share their interests. Signing up at the local gym and joining local community activities like social dances and county trade fairs is a great way to immerse oneself into the local culture.

It is also a good idea to join committees that organize various activities in the community. This is a great way to show one’s concern for the community as well as meet other local residents who just happen to be single and regularly help out.

Despite the many challenges of dating in a small town can bring it is still a worthwhile experience to take up. Keep in mind that meeting people provides various opportunities that would sooner or later turn out well in the long run.

Saturday, June 20, 2009

Dating Guide For The Rich And Beautiful Singles

Having a successful career can leads you in the way of having a lot of chances to have a high caliber dating you deserve. However, being rich does not come with free time, unless of course you managed to win the lottery. Therefore, a large portion of your time is devoted to work and building a successful career. Luckily, there are guides for the rich and beautiful singles to match up at last.

There is a lot of websites on the internet that can help you meet a wealthy men or women quickly. A majority of these sites are free to join and have chat rooms for you to meet your desired dating partner. You can begin by filling out a profile for others to see. This allows you to tell about your self and show what you are made of.

After you have filled out the online profile, you can also upload pictures to show off. The more pictures you place, the more variety you can show your potential dating partner to look at. Once you have updated your profile and pictures, you will have access to all of the features the site has to offer.

From there, it is time to begin casual dating. You can search other people’s profiles, add favorites, and most importantly initiate contact through email. Casual dating does not start on its own. You have to be willing to talk with rich men and women confidently to have any kind of success.

It can be difficult to decipher a quality dating website from just another bust. There are so many to choose from, but there are certain sites that have everything you could want. When looking for rich dating, you want to find a site that has wealth and beauty. The accommodation of these two facets will lead you to the time of your life.

Finding a website that focuses specifically on what you are looking for will help you avoid wasting time. It is a waste of time to talk to someone that is looking for something different than what you want. But having other millionaires and wealthy men, sexy and beautiful women on the same site can give you a plenty of chance to find the qualities in a partner that you have been looking for.

Not every person you talk to is going to be a connection, but looking at online dating sites can speed up the process of rich dating. You can narrow down your selection and finally talk to the people that have the qualities you want in your life... and with the help of the top rated online dating sites, in a short amount of time you will meet the woman or the man of your dreams.

Dating - Stress Hurts Relationship

Stress is one of the most common used words. it is also one of the most common problems we all face. Stress kills the joy of living. Think about your friends, and you will surely point to one who always looks stressed. Who rushes from one work to another? Who has no time to sit down and think peacefully? Stress is the way of life for him/her.

What kind of success do such people get in dating? Very less. Let us see why? They will be stressed with the very thought of how the date will go? Whether the setting will be right/ whether he/she like me/ what if I speak some rubbish and hurt her/him? All such negative thoughts come in the mind of such people. They kill all the positive thoughts and think passively as if the sky was going to fall down.

On the day of dating, they would somehow miss the time. They may not have chosen the proper outfit? They would rush to the meeting place and disturb their mind in the process. It is the game of stress. Stress that is caused by thinking about - what if everything goes wrong? And predictably because of the stress, everything goes wrong.

Please relax. Let things go wrong if that is destined. Don’t worry about them. Relax and prepare calmly. Meet your date with a undisturbed mind. Don’t rush. If you are late say sorry and go forward. Try to enjoy and try to make your date enjoy your togetherness. Let the stress go and good and positive thought come in your mind. Stress never helps in dating. It rather kills all the chances of success.

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Dating: Single, Female and 30 Something

In life I think it's fair to say that women drew the short straw enduring monthly periods, PMT, giving birth and the menopause; all producing more hormones than she, and anyone within arms length distance, can cope with.

But if she is 30 something and single the joy of being a woman doesn't stop there! She is in a race against time to meet a man (preferably sexy!), fall in love, get him to fall in love her, move in together, get married, have a baby (the latter two in no particular order as long as they happen!) and live happily ever after.

The reality though is that many women diarise "settling down" for their early 30s; devoting their 20s to getting a career, travelling, socialising and having fun. There are also the ones who, despite actively dating in search of their perfect partner since early adulthood, simply haven’t found “the one”.

After revelling in her 20s footloose and fancy free, from the day she hits 30 her carefree attitude screeches to an abrupt halt; Mother Nature is suddenly occupying all her thoughts and her biological clock is ticking getting faster and louder as each day, month and year passes still with no sign of “the one” entering her life.

Of course, for the 30 something single men of the world this is not a concern; nature gave them the choice to put fatherhood on hold, worry free, until their 40s, 50s even 60s. So is this why 30 something women find a gap in the dating scene and are unable to find someone of a similar age to settle down with? Are the 30 something men busy dating but staying single until later in life because they know that when the time is right (for them) reproducing won’t be a problem?

It’s a sad fact that society portrays 30 something single men and women completely different. 30 something single women are labelled “out of date goods left on the shelves” whereas 30 something single men are given a pat on the back and told to enjoy their freedom while they can. Although TV programmes like Sex in the City and Desperate Housewives have helped to change peoples opinions of single women over 30, the fact remains that if she wants children the natural way (i.e. without a sperm donor) she needs a man.

So with no sight of a man on the horizon, she feels under pressure not only from herself but also from those around her to get on the dating scene and meet the father-to-be of her children. Her parents will say, “Why can’t she meet a good man and settle down?" her friends will say, "Shall we fix her up on a date with [John]?" and then there are the sniggering colleagues who will say, "She must be a lesbian!"

Whilst some of them may have her best interests at heart, she should not feel forced into a relationship to please everyone else. The problem she faces however is that, as a woman of the world, she knows exactly what qualities she is looking for in her partner and her standards are set so high that the men she dates often don’t make the grade.

What she may have to do therefore is accept that not everyone is perfect and compromise on her “tick list”. She needs to put things in perspective and ask herself if it really matters that he doesn’t own a flash car or that he wears awful shoes. (It can sometimes be non-important things why women will reject a man.) She should also be careful not to discuss marriage and babies in the early dating stages; men are aware that a women in her 30s is looking for someone to father her children and if she comes across desperate, she will have most men running for the hills!

Ok, so she knows what she wants and she’s willing to compromise but where will a 30 something single woman meet the love of her life? Is it at work, through friends, in a bar/club, at a party or an online dating agency?

Whilst it is recommended to explore all methods of dating in order to increase your opportunities, not all of them will appeal to everyone. Take a 35 year old friend of mine for instance whom recently became single. It's not that she didn't want to settle down in her 20s, she just didn't meet the right man. She has, however, reached the conclusion that the likelihood of meeting someone in a bar or club who is potential “marriage material” is highly unlikely.

Whilst the majority of the 30 something single men she meets are happy to flirt, probably even happier to take her to bed, they do not want to commit to a relationship and jeopardise their freedom. Other rejects consist of men already in relationships looking for no strings fun or toy boys looking to put an older woman notch on their bedpost.

Only recently she dated someone whom she met in a bar who told her he was 27 years old (still younger than her but an acceptable age she thought). If I say that they became intimate very quickly, you’ll know what I mean! Whilst this was not something she would normally do, she felt a connection and it had been a while so she thought “Hell, why not!” Afterwards, she felt it only right to tell him her age. "You do know how old I am don't you?" she asked. "About 26/27?” he replied." (He certainly knew where his bread was buttered!), "No, I'm 35". "Well I suppose it's only fair I'm honest with you too ", he continued, "I'm actually only 19". "19!" she exclaimed. Immediately there was no future in this relationship and her hopes of finding “the one” had once again been dashed.

Turn the tables round (him 35, her 19) and it could have been a different story…. but that's for another day.

If you are experiencing similar problems finding a partner, why not give online dating a try? You will find men and women of all ages whose profiles will provide details of their age and whether they are looking for fun, love or marriage so you know from the start if you both have the same goals.