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Dating Survey Guy Speaks, Defends Himself Against Creepiness

Last week, the dating "mistake" that had the Internet cluck-clucking in joyful schadenfreude was the "creepy" survey sent by a "24-year-old finance guy," known as Mike, to one of his dates. Mike has gotten in touch to share his side of the story.

By Jen Doll

May 16, 2012

Everything We Do While Dating Is Creepy and Potentially Viral

We love to talk about relationships, good and bad, and probably always will. Most especially, we love it when we think people are doing them wrong.

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By Richard Lawson and Jen Doll

May 2, 2012

Lies Hollywood Told Us: Love and Romance Edition

Love is hard. Romantic movies make it harder.

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By Jen Doll

Apr 26, 2012

Where New York's Cheaters Live (According to an Infidelity Website)

According to an important study done by the company that runs a website for cheaters—yes, we're talking about AshleyMadison.com, which seems to be extremely good at marketing itself these days—the cheating-est New York-area town is Great Neck, Long Island.

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By Jen Doll

Apr 23, 2012

Andrea Peyser Does Not Approve of This 'Online Dating'

Poor misguided "dating spreadsheet guy" of last week has another moment in the New York Post, this time from Andrea Peyser, our new favorite dating columnist, who's not only full of advice but also so effervescently positive.

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By Jen Doll

Apr 20, 2012

Woman Rated Highly on Dating Spreadsheet Defends Spreadsheet Dating

Thursday we defended our hapless romantic spreadsheet user—a man who used an Excel document to "keep track of" dates he met on Match.com. Now, we hear from an actual human woman who interacted with him online.

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By Jen Doll

Apr 5, 2012

The Urban Myth of the City Girl and the Country Cowboy

A quarter of the cover of The New York Post is devoted to the kind of story that pops up regularly as a warning screed, or perhaps a reminder, to the women of New York.

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By Jen Doll

Mar 13, 2012

The Business of Revamping Your Online Dating Profile

Even though so many people are meeting each other and forming relationships online that your grandma can't even really look at you funny for it (maybe she's doing it herself), a lot of us are doing it wrong. That's where Christine Hooker, professional online dating consultant, comes in.

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By Jen Doll

Mar 12, 2012

The Apartments Most in Need of a Spring Cleaning

Recently, this writer was enjoying cocktails with a companion who revealed a horrifying secret: his apartment was so repugnant, he confessed, that it had actually led to the speedy demise of what might have become a relationship—or at least a physical liaison of some sort.

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By Rebecca Greenfield and Jen Doll

Feb 29, 2012

Cocktail Crossfire: Are Internet Marriage Proposals Acceptable?

We've now seen two Internet marriage proposals in just a few weeks, one on Mashable another on BuzzFeed. Is this an acceptable way to ask for someone's hand in marriage? We discuss.

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By Jen Doll

Feb 20, 2012

Can Your iPhone Flirt for You? An App Road Test

Is flirting the old-fashioned way for chumps? We enlisted help from Beth Griffenhagen, author of Haiku for the Single Girl, to test out a few of the new flirting apps on her recent evenings about town. Here's what she found.

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By Jen Doll

Feb 14, 2012

Words With Friends Is Basically a Dating App

According to a recent survey from Zynga of more than 118,000 players of the game, Words With Friends is good for scoring "both on and off the board."

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By Richard Lawson and Jen Doll

Feb 14, 2012

Cocktail Crossfire: Is Valentine's Day for Suckers?

It's Valentine's Day. Not sure how you should feel about that? Read on.

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By Jen Doll

Feb 13, 2012

Old People Are Getting Better at Dating

Get this, America: old people are dating. They may, in fact, be better at dating than you are.

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By Elspeth Reeve

Feb 9, 2012

Are the Craigslist CPACers Following the CPAC Dating Advice?

The Republican Party is not known for promoting casual dating, so naturally the Conservative Political Action Conference's panel on conservative dating drew more reporters -- like NASCAR fans rooting for a crash -- than small-government singletons ISO same.

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By Jen Doll

Feb 9, 2012

Actual Wall Streeters Respond to Matchmaker’s Tips for Dating Them

Samantha Daniels, a “professional matchmaker and dating expert,” has taken to CNBC with a tip sheet on how to date Wall Street men.

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By Jen Doll

Feb 2, 2012

Survey: Women Are from Mars, Men Are Adorable, Republicans Are Best in Bed

Ooh-ee. Match.com has released their second annual "Singles in America" study, and the information contained within ranges from scintillating to as approximately tepid as a lukewarm bath. Which is not unpleasant, really.

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By Jen Doll

Jan 31, 2012

Rejected and Don't Know Why? There's an App for That

In the etiquette of dating there is something you might call, colloquially, "the fade out," or perhaps "the fadeaway"—you also might call it, in harsher terms, being rejected by someone who deems it not important to actually tell you you are being rejected.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Jan 6, 2012

Today in Research

Everyone's Doing Drugs; A Reason to Play Outside

Discovered: Everyone's doing drugs, a reason to play outside more often, we lie about our romantic attractions, when our brains start dying, the right type of food and exercise.

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By Connor Simpson

Aug 11, 2011