Online Dating 101: Getting Started
For those of us who've always met our mates in real time, online dating can seem a little, well, different. Romantic souls that we are, we all wish we could bump into the guy of our dreams in the produce aisle at the supermarket or at a summer concert in the park. But, are we really willing to bet on that happening for all of us? What's wrong with being proactive about our search for love?
Nothing, says online dating guru EflirtExpert.com's Laurie Davies. To get us over our fear of entering the digital dating pool, Davies offers advice on how to get into the online dating scene, from setting up your profile to meeting up for the first time.
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I was motivated to create my Free Your Mind seminars, which encourage Black women to date non-Black men, after listening to an impassioned friend--an attractive woman in her late 30s--lament an all too common refrain from Black women as young as 25. With a master's degree, an executive job, a mortgage in her name, and no children, she just couldn't understand why she was alone when she'd done everything "right." She wanted to find a nice Black guy and get married. She complained about being overlooked by Black men who pretended she didn't exist, or worse, the ones who quoted the unfortunate ratio of Black men to Black women with a smile like the cat who had swallowed the canary. By the time she finished explaining, she had tears in her eyes. And I was thinking: life is way too short to be unhappy and way too long if you are alone when you don't want to be.
