‘I don’t know what to make of it, HopefulGirl,’ said the email. ‘I’ve been chatting to this lovely man online every day for months now, and he seems keen on me – but whenever I suggest meeting up, he finds an excuse not to. What’s going on?’
A psychotherapist friend of mine once told me about a former client. ‘She talked a lot about her boyfriend,’ he said. ‘It took me two months to realise she’d never actually met him. …
Read MoreSingle men. They still live with their mums. They play video games all day long. They don’t have a proper job. They lack discipline and have little self-respect. They need to man up.
Does this description sound familiar?
Single men are often described in these terms – even within the body of Christ. It’s not uncommon for Christian women to employ the phrase “where have all the good men gone?” Some (married) men dare to make similar remarks. One well-known …
Read MoreChristian Connection gets a mention in the Evening Standard (ES) Lifestyle magazine in an article about Hipster Christianity.
“Christian dating websites are booming everywhere: one of the biggest, Christian Connection, has more than 40,000 UK members.”.
ES Lifestyle Magazine 14 August 2014
The article looks at the growing number of young and hip Christians in London, proving that you don’t have to be uncool to follow your faith – a movement which the Standard have dubbed Hipstianity
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Read MoreMarc rolled his eyes and confessed his online dating downfall. “I had to log off; it was like having a catalogue of women to flick through. I’d stopped thinking about anyone as human, including myself.” Marc, I have been assured, is the only person ever to have felt like this. No-one else in the history of the world has ever been tempted to judge another human being only by their physical appearance. He has been placed in special measures (an …
Read MoreLast month, I spelled out the mistakes guys make at singles events. But we ladies often do ourselves no favours, either. We arrive in packs, spend the evening chatting to each other, shy away from making eye contact with the men, reject the ice-breaker games as naff – and then head home complaining that nobody spoke to us!
According to the guys on my Facebook page, it can take enormous courage to approach a woman. If a man fears a …
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