Month: March 2015

So, you’ve worked up the courage to ask someone on a date, and they’ve said: ‘Thanks, but no thanks.’ Or you’ve spent ages constructing the perfect email to someone on a dating website, and you don’t even get a reply. Being rejected is never fun. It can be painful and embarrassing, it can batter your confidence – it can even put you off approaching anyone ever again! But rejection is a fact of life in the dating world, so we …

Tall, dark and handsome. Many women would include these three adjectives on their wish list. Women often swoon over tall, dark and handsome celebrities, they visualise what the tall, dark and handsome fictional character in their latest romance novel really looks like, and they dream about the tall, dark and handsome man they expectantly long for.

Okay, so these three things won’t be on every woman’s wish list. But for most women, tall (read taller than me) is almost always …

Click here. Click here. Click here. This is what the Internet screams at us. You’re reading this blog, but your brain will soon be telling you to click elsewhere. Why?

Part of the answer to that question is we’ve become used to seeing ‘clickbait’ (def. ‘content, especially that of a sensational or provocative nature, whose main purpose is to attract attention and draw visitors to a particular web page.’)

We’ve become used to clicking multiple times a minute, constantly searching …

‘Advice on asking someone out is all very well, HopefulGirl,’ said the email, ‘but my concern is how to turn someone down kindly. I find it so painfully awkward, I now avoid becoming friendly with men, in case they ask me on a date and I have to decline.’

Rejecting someone is never easy, particularly if you’re an empathetic person and you know it’s taken courage to ask. We often try to soften the blow with ambiguous claims of being …