09/10/2008 by admin.

Latin culture is one that is embedded with traditions, values and celebrations, Like any other society. Of all the different attributes that are associated with Latino’s, there is no question that passion and romance are considered to be two of the most intriguing.

If you are of Latin descent and are interested in seeking a relationship with another Latin man or woman, there are many ways you can go about creating the perfect romantic dating experience, that both you and your date should be able to enjoy with no strings attached.

The following are a few ideas of how you can create romance on your dates:

Dinner - Dinner is always a perfect dating choice, because you can make it as casual or romantic as you would like it to be. It all depends on where you go, and the way you act during the meal. If you are interested in being romantic at dinner, listen intently to what your date has to say, take his or her hand from across the table, look them in the eyes and be honest when you express yourself. However, you should keep in mind that romance can be interpreted as an invitation to sex, or even make the other person feel uncomfortable if they are interested in taking it slow. Therefore, be a tasteful romantic and know when to draw the line. For although you want to capture your date’s interest, you don’t want to make them feel uncomfortable in the process.

Dancing - Dancing is a great way for you to have fun, while still getting to know and remaining close to your date. Going to a club, or attending Latin dancing is how you can keep the romance freely escalating without having any further expectations hanging in the air.

Walking - You would be surprised to discover the power behind a nice leisurely walk. There is something truly magical about making nature apart of your date. Although not everyone is fortunate enough to have a beach close to them, there is sure to be parks, waterfronts and old fashioned neighbourhoods awaiting your footsteps. Holding hands and talking on an evening stroll, watching the sunset in silence, and gazing up at the stars, are just some of the ways you can use simple beauty to add to the romantic atmosphere of your date.

Due to the fact that traditions are an important part of Latin culture, dating someone of your same ethnic background is usually a plus when it comes to family relations, especially if you are interested in perusing a serious relationship with your dating partner.

Nevertheless, despite your dating intentions, there are many ways you can make your dating experience a beautiful time that you can truly enjoy who knows where a little romance can take you.

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09/10/2008 by admin.

The Yahoo Personals Dating Service is a top online dating site. It allows you to create a profile with photos and browse or search the profiles of other members. Members of Yahoo Personals dating are primarily people from 20-40 years old looking for dates and relationships.

Profiles on Yahoo Personals

The quality of profiles is variable, with fairly typical questions being asked of members. This means that the quality of response will vary widely between members. You probably won’t get to know another member’s innermost desires and dreams through his or her profile, but there is no shortage of interesting and attractive members to contact for further information.

A Yahoo! Personals free membership comes with the following great features:

• Create a profile with photos
• Browse and search member profiles
• Complete a free personality profile

You can take just a few minutes to complete your personal profile, or spend a good 30 minutes to an hour if you really want to get in-depth with your free-form answers about who you are and who you want to meet.

Contacting Members

Once you’ve found someone you want to contact (or if they’ve found you), you’ll need to convert to a paid Yahoo dating personals membership. If you click through from this site, you can get a Yahoo Personals free trial for 7 days. The free trial includes the features listed above. Paid members can access the following additional features:

• Send and reply to emails
• Instant message with other members
• Premier members can use a personality profile to find other members that they are highly compatible with for marriage

Prices for Yahoo Personals

The cost of a monthly membership is extremely reasonable at just $19.95/month. Yahoo Personals Premier is an additional service available for $39.95/month that allows you to complete a personality profile, perform more advanced searches, and find a long-term match. If you join for a longer term, you’ll save big. Yahoo Personals is only:

• $14.98/month for a 3-month membership
• $11.66/month for a 6-month membership

The 6-month membership rate is one of the lowest monthly dating service prices available!

After your Free Trial Ends

When you near the end of your Yahoo Personals subscription, remember to cancel your membership if you’ve met someone and no longer need the service. You can always reactivate your paid membership at a later time. If you do not cancel, your credit card will automatically be billed on a monthly basis at the end of your membership.

There is not a Yahoo Personals Coupon, Yahoo Personals Coupon Code, or Yahoo Personals promotional code currently available. To take advantage of the Yahoo Personals 7-day free trial, just click through from this site! Join Yahoo free personals today and find someone special!

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09/10/2008 by admin.

By DAN GOOD

  Jack Ross tosses a wooden board over the plastic legs of his work bench and unwinds the cord on his jigsaw, preparing to cut through the wood. He used to be a carpenter, but now he just does this for fun.Ross, who’s in his 60s, used to be married, too, more than 30 years to the same woman. But in the mid-1990s he and his ex-wife decided they were better apart, so now in addition to the woodworking he kayaks and bikes and occasionally, he dates new people. He’s not looking for another wife - he’s searching for someone to pedal her bike beside his, to fill the seat next to him on trips to Civil War battlefields.

“I don’t know what it is, maybe I’m too fussy, but I know what I want and I’m going to keep looking until I find it,” he says. “It’s hard to meet somebody.”

Ross isn’t alone. According to U.S. Census Bureau statistics from 2002, the most recent census study on our country’s older population, about 23 million people older than 55 years old aren’t married. While that number includes the frail and sickly and people who have no desire to date again, it also includes millions of seniors coupling up. Death and divorce brought this about. Medicine and technology help keep it going.

Dating’s a different game at this age, but in many ways it’s similar to those teenage years. The guys, like their younger selves, still try to show that they have money and a fancy car, and some actually do. Instead of applying makeup to appear older, women use makeup to subtract years from their age. But it’s tough to build a future on something fleeting like appearance. Skin wrinkles. Hair thins. Bodies creak and sag.

In the end, these single seniors just want to find someone to grow old with.Ross looked for his next girlfriend in the classifieds. No dice. Friends set him up on some disastrous blind dates. The streets of the 55-plus community where he lives, the Oaks of Weymouth, are about as quiet as the beach in February, so the grind of Ross’ saw echoes off the neighboring houses and street signs. The sound reaches up the street and around the corner to the activities building, where a dozen ladies line dance inside. But stepping to “Achy Breaky Heart” isn’t really the definition of active that Ross is searching for. And it seems the line dancers are all married.

Nanci Phifer, 62, is one of the married line dancers. Two divorces behind her, Phifer says there’s more responsibility - but the same sweet, sappy sinew - attached to dating later in life.

“When you start dating, you have the same giddy feelings you did at 16 or 18,” she said. “I’d like to say you’re wiser at my age, but that’s not necessarily true.”

Maybe realistic is a better way to describe it. When dating at this age you’ve experienced more life events, more happiness, more heartbreak. Everyone in this dating pool has buried the one they loved or lost the one they loved or missed out on a chance at love. Having children also changes the dating landscape, Phifer says.

“You have kids and they have kids, and it kind of puts a damper on things,” she says.

In our busy world, more seniors are scouring the internet for love. A quarter of the people who find matches on the dating website www.eharmony.com are over 50, and according to Joe Tracy, publisher of Online Dating Magazine, the fastest growing segment for online dating is seniors.

“Initially the boom was with people between the ages of 25 and 40, then it grew with college students. Now senior citizens are seeing this as a great way to meet people,” Tracy said.

The trend has taken off locally, as a dating Web site based near Philadelphia, www.seniorfriendfinder.com, is filled with profiles of seniors from Linwood, Ventnor City, Atlantic City and Millville, the seniors all looking for pretty much the same thing.

Sexual chemistry factors into many senior relationships. Ross searches for a younger companion because he wants to maintain his sex life. He says women in their late 50s and 60s tend to lose their drive, and he’s not ready to give that up.

Age can take away a man’s drive as well. Bedroom frustrations are one of those things that guys don’t like talking about, so erectile dysfunction has grown into a $2.7 billion dirty little secret. That’s how much money people in the U.S. spend every year on ED medicines like Viagra, Levitra and Cialis, according to Miller-McCune magazine. A generation ago if a man couldn’t perform there was little he could do about it. Now, with the little blue pill, there’s still hope.

Sometimes sexual activity continues into those nursing home years. JoAnn Starn, activities director at Millville Center, said she’s accidentally caught residents in the act. One male resident frequently bragged to Starn about his sex life and Viagra use. She brushed it off thinking he was joking, but when he passed away she had to go through his belongings, and sure enough, she found his Viagra stash.

“With seniors you wonder how long they’re able to remain sexually active, and here you have the answers,” she said. “It depends on the person’s health and if they’ve been active all their life.”

And then somewhere along the line, in the 70s, the 80s, the 90s, senior relationships shift focus from contact to companionship. After the sex fades couples continue holding hands on the bus, eating lunch together, sitting outside, talking. If dating at 55 feels like high school, this resembles middle school romance - more harmless, less pretentious, bonds built over field trips and socials.

Elaine Schiapelli, 82, is looking for that type of connection. Elaine has had a few special men in her life. She was married twice, then after moving into the Millville Center she dated Fran, who used to give her jewelry. It’s been two, two and a half years since he passed away. She continues to hope for another Prince Charming.

“I want someone who likes to laugh and have fun and who likes to dance,” she says. “You know anybody like that?”

Patricia Stewart, 76, found someone like that. Known him for 40 years, too. She was friends with Carl Stewart and his wife years ago, and the couples stayed in touch through Christmas cards. Patricia’s husband died 12 years ago. She didn’t think she would marry again, but after Carl’s wife also passed away, he asked Patty to lunch and they started dating.

Earlier this week, they celebrated their first wedding anniversary.

“I knew what kind of person he was, but we never realized how much we had in common until we started dating,” she said.

Jack Ross prepares his woodworking equipment. His T-shirt reads “Life is simple. Eat. Sleep. Bike.” But the slogan is misleading, since life is never really that simple. Biking alone on familiar roads gives you a lot of time to think about much more than eating and sleeping.

Someday, when he finds someone to pedal a bike beside his, Ross’s life will truly be simple again.

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09/10/2008 by admin.

    Date.com Sees Growth in New Subscribers;

    Members Spending More Time Looking for Love Online Than on Actual Dates

MIAMI BEACH, FL, Oct. 7 /PRNewswire/ - The majority of Americans are hurting in today’s recessed economy and the Nation’s singles are no different, with many getting pink slipped before happy hour. And, as people cut back on everything from consumer electronics to out-of-home eating/entertainment spending, Avalanche, LLC, owner of leading online dating site Date.com, reported today that it has experienced growth during these cash strapped times. Additionally, a new poll reveals that site members are becoming frugal with dating, investing more time looking for love online before committing to a date.

“We were not surprised that overall revenues for Date.com grew 17% compared to the first and second quarters of last year,” said Meir Strahlberg, CEO of Avalanche. “Singles are being a lot more strategic with their dating methods, spending more time making sure the person they meet online is worth the cost of a date. And, while many members are reining in what they deem non-essential expenditures, we’ve found that with singles the search for love and a soul mate is as much of a priority as paying the monthly rent check or electric bill.”

In addition to the influx of new subscribers, current members of Avalanche’s suite of online dating sites are logging in with more frequency and spending hours searching through profiles, sending e-mails and utilizing the private chat capabilities. In fact, there has been a steady increase in online activity since the start of the fiscal year with 3% or more month over month, while cumulative growth has netted a 26% change.

Given today’s economic climate, we also decided to poll our members to see how they are coping socially. In a new survey of thousands of single men and women nationwide, we asked: The recession might be hurting your wallet, but how has it affected your dating life?

    Following are the complete poll results:    I spend more time online/on the phone before actually               48%

    setting up a face-to-face date. If I'm going to spend

    the cash, I want to make sure the date is worth it.

I'm a lot more creative with first dates. Coffee and                11%

    a stroll through the park is a great first date that

    won't break the bank!

I stopped going to bars and clubs to pick up people,                11%

    the cost for entrance fees and drinks alone were

    killing me! I've been trying to meet people in other

    places, like online, during my commute, at the gym

    or Barnes & Noble.

Third date dinner and a movie is no longer in my                     9%

    budget, although the nightcap and nookie at my/their

    place is certainly cost effective.

The recession isn't affecting me at all, I'm still                   5%

    going all out on dates

All of the Above                                                    16%

About Avalanche, LLC

    --------------------

Avalanche operates several leading online dating websites, including Date.com. Date.com launched on Valentine’s Day 1997 and has become one of the world’s most popular dating websites. First started as a Bulletin Board System in 1986. Avalanche hosts more than 10 million members worldwide, with the sites adding over 100,000 members each month. Additional information is available at www.date.com.

SOURCE Avalanche, LLC

Published Oct. 7, 2008

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09/10/2008 by admin.

Your 50 and you still haven’t found the one that you can call your true love? Don’t just want to watch and let your life pass you by. By all means, indulge in senior dating!

It’s been years or decades since your last date? In as much as you would like to really test the waters of the dating scene again, you’re too scared that you already lost your touch. And wondering how much the dating etiquette has has already evolved? Sit back and relax. Regain your dating prowess as you had in your teens back then. Read on to gain some advice on how to make senior dating lesser of a pressure and of more of an enjoyable activity.

1. Care for a second serving? Deciding if you would want another one is the one of the goals in getting into a first date. And how else can you accomplish that but to plan a date that would ensure lots of conversation, right? This is the opportunity for you to get to know each other more. Senior dating is not at any rate different from younger dating since the “guidelines” don’t differ that much. On a first date, it will be wise to avoid activities that will just leave you sitting mummed in the dark, i.e., watching a movie or a play. Senior dating does not exempt anyone on the pressure of groping in the dark if a first date became full of dead air.

2. What makes the both of tick? It is imperative that you consider activities that you think will be of your same interest. A hobby or a shared value incorporated in your first date will not only lessen the pressure on the two of you but will also bring out the best in you. In senior dating, no matter how long you’ve abandoned your throne already, you will be given a headstart if you do your homework. Whether you ask your date regarding what she fancies to do beforehand or research through common friends to surprise her with such activity. If you’re really into it, there’ll be no way of stopping you to make this first date a good one.

3. A lunch date may do wonders. Choosing lunch over dinner just because you’re considering that senior dating must be done earlier for some health reasons is a loser’s thought. A first date during senior dating, just like teen dating, will be more fun if done during daytime when more activities are available for the both of you to enjoy. It’s just that intimate ambience that a dinner date conjures that makes a first date more of an anxiety-inducing bustle than an at ease feat.

4. If going on senior dating just put you in a nerve-wracking jumbled mood, consider the ever trusty group date with friends. This will not only lessen the pressure of coming up with an in-synch convo but will also be more of an opportunity to see how you two interact with others. A charity auction or playing a sport that you and your group both agree to will do.

5. Rock and roll or take a stroll. No, it’s not about going to rock concerts but you could if you would like to. If you are not really a lunch-date person, dance parties are also good first date ideas. After an exhausting boogie-ing evening, you must have already been relieved of the tension brought about by your first date. Taking a stroll after the dance date will give you more time to get acquainted more of each other.

6. Senior dating doesn’t mean that you have to be pressured to doing everything to the extent of straining yourself just to hit it off. How? You just don’t have to confine yourself in wine tasting or book searching, which are some of the generic first date activities in pursuit of senior dating. You may also go to markets or malls that will not only give you time to gauge whether you’re of the same wavelength but may also give you an excuse if you didn’t it off. This is not about giving you negative vibes regarding your first date on senior dating but to prepare you for the possibilities of a not-so successful one or some kind of a way of getting a glimpse of the worst scenario.

7. Be graceful or don’t be. First dates often mean not necessarily knowing the person that much. If ever something comes up or simply you felt that you’re not comfortable with your date, leave. It’s better to be safe than be sorry.

Don’t just keep on telling yourself that you’ve been there and done that. Just keep an open mind and remember that you’re involving yourself with senior dating to have a good time. The first date is not an exception.

List of most popular Senior Dating Sites 

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