| On Aug. 10, some two dozen cute and done-up singletons arrived at the Long Beach hot spot Corbin & Reynolds for a round of speed dating, the head-spinning courtship ritual made famous by Candace Bushnell's column in the New York Observer - which begat "Sex and the City" - and the movie "The Forty Year Old Virgin."
Greeting the eager daters was Tammy Carlisle, the event coordinator from Cupid.com, who led them through the process. Cupid.com touts itself as the largest speed dating company i... | When I asked my mom recently what she wanted for her birthday, she gave me the most unexpected answer: she wanted my help in getting her on the online dating superhighway. Her request for a personal ad as a gift was nothing like the perfume or flowers I usually get her. I didn't know what to say. She had just gotten out of a six-year relationship and wanted to get back into the dating scene. She told me she wanted to find romance again. "I'm not getting any younger," she joked.She told me she wa... | After college, the dating pool dries up. That's often when online dating becomes a way to connect.
"When you're working in a job you see the same people every day, but when you go to college there are many, many opportunities to bump into someone you might end up in a relationship with," said clinical psychotherapist Diane M. Berry of Manitowoc.
Berry is director of Blue Waters Family Counseling and author of "Romancing the Web: A Therapist's Guide to the Finer Points of Online Dating" (... |
