“I’ll have a muffin, a double espresso and your number please…” Forget waiting to hit a bar after work, or scouring a dating website in your lunch hour: get a date for the weekend before you hit your desk on Monday morning. It’s time to [...]
continue reading 2 commentsInsanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. I am guilty, guilty, of this one: or insane, take your pick. After making lots of forth right resolutions about how I would absolutely not repeat ALL of the same mistakes with [...]
continue reading 0 CommentsOr it should have been. Inevitably though for all my ability to hook up with people, my greater knack of seamlessly screwing myself over, was dominant. Sunday: A dating website date. It felt more like job interview though with a seriously nervous guy who you [...]
continue reading 0 CommentsGreat, natural, game doesn’t run to a script. As much as we’d like to think you can plan the A-Z of an interaction; we know it’s actually about developing the skills that mean you can build genuine connections. So it’s time to get ‘out of [...]
continue reading 3 commentsEven if you don’t know the slang, a flake is something all of us have experienced. It’s when a girl sends a last minute ‘my bus was late and now I can’t make it’ message, goes AWOL in the days running up to that amazing [...]
continue reading 6 commentsRight about now I expected to be writing about some amazingly glorious, triumphant return to the dating scene. I half expected to have caused an orgy, got a new girlfriend and for Bateman to be a distant memory: but the pain of the break-up still [...]
continue reading 2 commentsLondon has a dating scene like no other. Working full time as a dating coach and writer I should know. I spend my days helping others to find true love (or at the very least a sexy stranger) and my nights going on roughly two [...]
continue reading 0 CommentsDo your approaches often turn into interviews? Are you an expert at asking questions, but seem to always run out of conversation? In fact, does this happen to you once too often: You: “Hey, I was just out grabbing a coffee, but I saw you [...]
continue reading 3 commentsHow to avoid talking about work when you’re on a date Work is one of those unavoidable first date topics; one minute you’re thinking about how sexy your day two is, the next you’re making painful conversation about work deadlines. Trouble is talking about your [...]
continue reading 0 CommentsLet’s deal with the ‘when’ first and in a later blog we’ll deal with ‘how’. Just like interactions during real life the timing of when you ‘escalate’ is important. Imagine you’ve just locked into set in a bar. How weird would it be for the [...]
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