First Date

The perfect first date is hard to come by, especially when you have high expectations! Let’s face it, a first date can be pretty awkward, especially if you have never spoken before or worse yet, are doing it blind! That moment when you first see them, if my heart doesn't skip a beat or if I can’t feel my blood pressure rise, I just know he isn't ‘the one’. So what else really makes or breaks a first date? Here are 10 key factors I look out for on a first date:

Top Tips for your Dating Profile

In the spirit of the January sales, your dating profile is basically the shop window where you showcase yourself as ‘datable’. However most of you, let me emphasise the most being, nine out of ten of you are definitely the equivalent to the 99p store or cheap Sunday market stall with ‘Dagenham Dave’ type of goods on show! Do you get the picture? So what can you do to make yourself the top dog, the Louis Vuitton, highly desired singleton that girls just cannot wait to get their hands on?

Well boys, today is your lucky day. I am giving away one of my biggest secrets by telling you how a dating profile catches my eye. If there are any ladies reading this, please feel free to share your tips for what you are looking for in the comments below. After all, you could potentially be helping your Mr Right catch your eye!

Here are my three top tips for your dating profile:

To Join Or Not To Join

In today’s digital age where living without the internet is possibly a life not worth living, opening the door to online dating is really an emergence in a change in human behaviour to embrace social and digital technology, to meet new people. That sounded super smart (*brushes shoulders*).

The concept of joining a dating website can seem a little daunting, desperate and demeaning. Personally, I find it fun and amusing at times. Don’t get me wrong, like any girl I hope to meet my prince but in the process meet a few friendly / weird frogs too. I could write another blog post on the weird, outrageous and somewhat inhumane creatures I have met or been messaged by, so shall leave that for another day.

When I first joined a dating website it resulted in the following: 630 interests in first 3 weeks and over 4,000 profile views! Let me add to the stats – 300 interests were in 48hours! Yes – I am boasting, but even Cheryl Cole or Kim Kardashian wouldn’t get that! I did feel like a celebrity checking through my fan mail at times, but it was a tough job and someone had to do it!

Joking aside, here is my theory to help you decide if online dating is right for you.

Why am I single?

So you are twenty something, have a fantastic career, a great bunch of friends, a personality that is second to none and look hot as hell (most of the time – well so you think!). Everything in life seems perfect yet you know you are approaching an age where children and marriage are no longer in the distant future!

You ask yourself time and time again why it is so difficult to meet Mr/Miss Right? This post should hopefully answer and conclude why this is the case. Let’s take a look at some of the answers to your single status.

Top 10 Dating Disasters

So we have all been on a date and it doesn’t let say go as well as we had expected. From looking nothing like their photo, to being 5 inches shorter than what they had described. Nonetheless, I think you will safely feel that you have had the best dates ever after reading the 10 worst dating experiences. They range from bizarre, to funny, to sick and shocking! Brace yourselves for this…

What NOT to message on dating sites

So as you know I am on dating sites and it's really not a big deal.

It's a good way to meet some normal decent guys, however, you do get the occasional weirdo with the type of messages that make you say wtf!

I wish I kept the weirder ones! But here is a selection of a few that I definitely did NOT reply to!

My advice to girls ...

Guys should appreciate u.
Make u feel special.
Give u attention.
Tell u they miss u.
Not be afraid to say how they feel. Advise u.
take care of u.
Be there for u when u need them and even when u dont think u do.
Call u just even for a minute to say hey.
Tell u good night.
Be romantic.
Surprise u.
Show u affection.
Hold your hand.
Make u feel like there is no one else in the world for u ... Or even for them.
Be all that and more ...