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Best Opening Lines for Online Daters

Do not go with 'Hey, what's up?'

(Newser) - Oh, the stress of dating apps: What opening line to use on the person who "swiped right," in order to make sure they don't change their mind about you? Dating app Hinge is here to help you out. It wrote more than 100 opening lines, and 22%...

Oddly, Women Are More Likely to End a Marriage
Oddly, Women Are More Likely to End a Marriage
NEW STUDY
Aug 23, 2015 6:21 AM CDT

Oddly, Women Are More Likely to End a Marriage

Study shows the same thing doesn't hold for dating relationships

(Newser) - Women are more likely than men to end a marriage—that's something that's already been established. But a new study casts that fact in a rather odd light. Researchers had thought that was the case with divorce because that's the case in general. Not so. "The...

Book Clubs Play Big Role for Women in Dating

They feel it helps them find just the right partner, says study

(Newser) - A sociologist's research into women and book clubs will no doubt be interesting for the women themselves, but it might be more interesting for those who hope to date them. In short, those potential suitors better get reading because, romantically speaking, it matters a lot. "American women utilized...

Harvard Grad: Find Me a Girlfriend, I'll Give You $10K

Ren Lu You, 29, has money to spend but no time for bad dates

(Newser) - Ren Lu You is searching for love—and willing to pay $10,000 to the Cupid who makes it happen. The Harvard business grad/Birmingham, Ala., resident says he's been on 30 dates in the last 10 months but none have set his heart aflutter, reports WGN . Now, the private...

Love at First Sight? Sure, If You're Equally Attractive

Couples who know each other more than a month are less alike in attractiveness

(Newser) - "Who ever loved, that loved not at first sight?" So asked poet Christopher Marlowe some 500 years ago, and now social scientists say they've got a scientific answer to the romantic notion that attraction is instant. It turns out that people who started dating within a month of...

Woman Has 136 Online Dates, No Second Date

Belinda Stuckey of Australia has made 4,700 matches on eHarmony

(Newser) - An Australian school teacher says she's had 136 dates over 17 months but never a second date—because the mutual attraction just isn't there, E! News reports. "I know who I am and what I want and I just can't find a man who is worthy...

Where We Most Like to Go on a First Date

Order a Starbucks latte and hope it's love?

(Newser) - Coffee really does mean coffee on a lot of first dates, according to a survey from dating app Clover : The iPhone-only app analyzed data from its 200,000 users to determine that Starbucks is the most popular first-date destination (its blog post says the data "clearly shows" Starbucks is...

Survey Reveals Proper Number of Dates Before Sex
Survey Reveals Proper Number of Dates Before Sex
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Feb 14, 2015 2:34 PM CST

Survey Reveals Proper Number of Dates Before Sex

Worldwide, the average is 3.53

(Newser) - For single people around the world, it seems that date No. 4 is the one most likely to end up in the bedroom for the first time. A TimeOut survey asked 11,000 people in 24 cities, "After how many dates is it appropriate to have sex?" and came...

Your Dating App Could Bring Down the Entire Office
Your Dating App Could Bring Down the Entire Office
STUDY SAYS
Feb 12, 2015 2:31 PM CST

Your Dating App Could Bring Down the Entire Office

Report warns using same phone for work, play could expose company to hackers

(Newser) - As if online dating weren't fraught with enough pitfalls , an IBM study published yesterday found that 26 of 41 popular Android dating apps, or 63%, had "medium to severe" security vulnerabilities that could leave users open to hacks, Reuters reports. And almost half of the companies reviewed for...

Mensa Helping the Brilliant Find Love

Thanks to new Match.com partnership

(Newser) - Good news for brainiacs who are struggling to find love: Match.com has partnered with Mensa to help bring the IQ-blessed together. This week saw the launch of a Mensa-specific channel on Match.com dubbed Mensa Match , where, as USA Today explains, access is limited to those who meet Mensa'...

What It's Like to Date in a Religion of Just 1M

Conventions, Google chats pave way to marriage

(Newser) - When there are only one million followers of your religion on the planet, it can be a little hard to meet people—especially when that religion requires marrying another Druze if one's children are to be members of the faith. The Arab religion developed about 1,000 years ago,...

Police Chief Accused of Dating Fugitive Heroin Addict

Lucas Mace faces 12 criminal counts in Ohio village

(Newser) - A former Ohio police chief is facing 12 criminal charges for allegedly harboring a woman sought on drug charges—and dating her in his spare time, Raw Story reports. As police chief of Glouster, Ohio (population 1,800), Lucas Mace met 23-year-old Hillary Hooper on the scene of a traffic...

Worst First Date Ever? Guy Swipes Woman's Dog, TV

You'll just have to up your 'Worst First Date Ever' game, America

(Newser) - Most people go on dates lookin' for love, but this one ended instead with a little larceny: A New Jersey woman went out Thursday night with "Joel," a guy she met on an online dating site, reports the Daily Record . She took him back to her place, and...

eHarmony: Pay $5K, Get Matched by a Human

Company VP admits some things are 'too hard for a computer'

(Newser) - eHarmony is pretty serious about about pairing "deeply compatible singles," but if its 29 Dimensions® of Compatibility can't find you your perfect mate, the dating site will soon offer a Plan B: Pay $5,000 for eH+ , which lands you your very own personal counselor for a...

Fran Drescher's New Boytoy: the 'Inventor of Email'

Stepped out with Shiva Ayyadurai, now an MIT prof, this week

(Newser) - Fran Drescher has some new arm candy and his resume might surprise you. Shiva Ayyadurai, apparently the first person to hold a copyright for the electronic mail system "email" in 1982, is her newest love interest, the Huffington Post reports. The pair, who apparently just love Indian-American cooking, stepped...

35% of Marriages Now Begin Online
 35% of Marriages 
 Now Begin Online 
Study Says
Jun 3, 2013 4:53 PM CDT

35% of Marriages Now Begin Online

Controversial eHarmony study says over a third met through the Internet

(Newser) - Things have come so far since Meg Ryan falling in love with Tom Hanks over AOL was considered a novel enough concept to make a film about it. Now more than a third of marriages in the US start out online, according to a survey of 19,000 people who...

Ayn Rand Dating Site 'Less Scary' Than Expected

Wonkette looks for weirdness on 'The Atlasphere'

(Newser) - Staff members at the liberal website Wonkette went trolling on The Atlasphere —a dating site for Ayn Rand enthusiasts—in the hope of finding "the wackiest, most completely out-there profiles we could find," writes Doctor Zoom. But they were shocked to find rather down-to-Earth folk rather than...

Hey, Baby: What's Your Credit Score?

Financial history becoming a bigger factor in dating decisions

(Newser) - Forget about your sign, the new hot first date question is, "What's your credit score?" As the New York Times reports, more and more daters are getting questions about their financial history, and in some cases, a weak credit score (under 660) could yank some of those fish...

Taylor Swift: Songs Are Like 'Messages in a Bottle'

'Maybe the person ... will hear about it'

(Newser) - With songs like "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together," Taylor Swift's new album expresses her "girl-power angst" and proves "she's ready to grow up," writes Ramin Setoodeh at the Daily Beast . An unabashed fan of the record—called Red—he talked to...

1st 'Divorce Expo' Puts Positive Face on Breakups

New York exposition offers tips on dating, plastic surgery, and lawyering up

(Newser) - Divorcees looking for a little advice (or the company of formerly married peeps) are heading over to the so-called divorce expo in New York today, the New York Times reports. “We’re putting a positive face on divorce,” says Francine Baras, co-founder of Start Over Smart—which costs...

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