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Dating Online Techniques - How to Keep Your Virtual Life Exciting

By Krisvis On August 26, 2009 No Comments

Online romance has become a fashion along with the growth of the Internet - everything just seems to be possible (just from your sitting position) now that Internet is discovered. What is even more exiting is that you can in fact start dating online right now - it is pretty safe and exciting at the same time. In addition, there are a lot of couples today who are living happily ever after that actually met online! Now, that is very inspirational. So to get you started, here are a few dating online techniques you can definitely make use of on your hunt for a virtual girlfriend. Well, it is time to get busy!

• Do not overkill. Do not get over-excited online. Sure, it may work on some girls, but only for the time being. Keep things simple, but clear-cut without sounding too monotonous at the same time. Make use of all options possible - chat rooms, newsletters, free trial speed dating, and accept invitations to parties to mingle with other singles out there. Do not get too strained on it my friend. Just wing it and have a great time!

• Keep the topics out of the ordinary and remarkable. It can be a little harder to keep someone, especially an unknown girl, interested with you online - there are about a million other people that get online everyday hoping to get lucky and meet that someone special. So technically, they are all your rivals. You do not need to get all political and prepare the most passionate topics on this side of the planet. You just have to be your complete wonderful self! The more normal you sound, the more informal and more interesting you become.

• Stay connected. Exchange pictures, exchange numbers, invite each other on other group sites like Facebook, Friendster, Multiply, My Space - the more you get connected the more you get more familiar with each other - thus, it will lead to a better chance at romance. There is really nothing wrong if you start your familiarity online - it is actually pretty exciting and it gives you something to look forward to in the future. Go on, get busy with that keyboard, and mouse this instant!

• Ask her out on a real date. This does not really mark the end of your online romance - it is actually the foundation of your actual romance together. Nothing will take place if you stay connected through your computer screens or calling each other up - it is a huge step, we all know that, but life is always about risks. In addition, you can never know if you can hit it off in person so you have nothing to lose. You can still date online, but at any rate now you have some great things to look forward to.


The World of Online Dating Services

By Krisvis On August 26, 2009 No Comments

Have you ever imagined that date of your life where you do not have to wear fancy clothes, splash yourself with perfume or cologne, primp yourself with makeup, and most of all fidget wondering if your date may not like you? If you are looking for that kind of date, online dating may just be the key to that. All you need is a computer, an Internet connection, a few clicks of your mouse and keyboard, and you will be on your way to the wonderful world of online dating.

Nowadays, many people depend on online dating as a means of finding their would-be girlfriend or boyfriend that could finally lead to finding their partner in life.  Many years back, online dating was not that popular since only a few had access to the Internet and many had the wrong implication of online dating, as the place or means where people can go when they cannot get laid, or when they want to do freaky and nasty stuff.  It is true that many people used to raise their eyebrows when they learned that two people met through online dating, fell in love, have a relationship after meeting, and eventually even get married. Nowadays, the world of online dating has changed a lot.

It has now become a world where fantasy blends with reality; a world where love, romance, and friendship can all be transported right into your home. Online dating is a cultural norm, and has become a practical choice over traditional dating.  Finding a partner is not easy and through online dating, you can have options to get the right match for you. Many have found that online dating might just be the ideal way to meet that special someone. You can now meet up and fall in love with someone before even looking into their eyes or giving them a kiss or a hug. Upon picking your choice, you can now begin to have a conversation, or just through an exchange of emails to get to know the person.  Through online dating, people regularly develop online friendships with men and women who live halfway across the world. In addition, some of these friendships even lead to committed and monogamous relationships where one or both of the individuals transfer to another city, state, or country.

Online dating has many merits over the traditional dating method. It is like a bridge that links two people together. Dating tends to be hard for just about everyone. Often the hardest part is to meet someone who has similar interests with you, catches your attention, you feel comfortable talking with, and most of all you have that chemistry that you do not share with anybody else.  With online dating, you can have many options. The choices are in front of you, and all you need is a little self-confidence and to be yourself. This will help you to find out if you and the person are compatible with each other or not.

For those who hate the club scene, online dating is a more suggested avenue to find that match for you. It is a more confidential place where you can chat and talk about anything, rather than to be talking with your loud voice just to hear each other over the loud music. You do not have to collect the courage to walk up and introduce yourself to someone. By just saying hi through instant messenger or just a short note on email, you can make a contact. If the person is interested, he or she can reply. If he is not interested, he can send either a polite “sorry, not interested” or choose not to reply at all.

You can see that in online dating, the threat and the pain are minimal compared when you are rejected personally.
The world of online dating has certainly evolved and is making its way through connecting millions of people worldwide who are in search of love, romance, and friendship. Online dating can be safe, fun, and easy. Just be yourself and be self-assured. Anyway, you only have your shyness to lose.


The Risks of Online Dating

By Krisvis On August 26, 2009 No Comments

There is no question that the popularity of online dating has revolutionized the manner in which potential couples meet each other. These days, it is common for the average single person to participate in an online dating service. In fact, this trend is fast becoming the standard. In 2004, it was estimated that U.S. residents spent more than $460 million on online dating services.  It is understood that online dating is big business in America. There are many reasons why people opt into this method for meeting new people. The number of online dating services on the internet is so copious, many of which offer free services.

The amalgamation of curiosity and the desire to meet new and exciting people, is what usually lures individuals to be a part of an online dating service community. However, this new activity does not come without a price.  Sure, it does not happen all the time, but you just hear about horror stories about online dating services rather then the all of the good relationships that have come from online dating. Some of them are frightening enough to send casual observers away from these online dating services for good.

One of the problems facing the online dating service industry is that its participants often pretend to be someone else in the profiles that they create. Not everybody tells the truth. People have been known to lie about it all, including their marital status. Some married individuals try to pass themselves off as single, while others lie about their physical appearance, age, economic status, and even gender.

For an inexperienced online dater, the danger prowls at every corner. There are some safety measures that potential participants can use to help guide them through a safe online dating experience.

Rule of the thumb: when a site offers subscription like in most online dating services, it is relatively safer than those sites that can be accessed for free. Those sites that necessitate membership offer a set of requirements, and guidelines that aspiring members would have to meet before they become subscribers.  There are even some sites that are so exclusive, that anyone who wants to join has to take up an intensive screening process. Background checks are done on aspirant members to ensure that the information they have given checks out.

Some more safety tips when it comes to online dating:
1. Participants should pay attention to the reliability of the information given to them by the persons they are corresponding with. This way, they would be able to detect if they are lying.
2. Online daters should guard their identity. One of the greatest things about online dating is that it provides participants anonymity. Personal information like: address, last name, phone number, is not exposed until the participant decides to do so. Participants should be very careful about divulging personal information that will make it possible for the people they are communicating with to directly locate them.
3. Participants should unexpectedly cease communication with people who are obsessed with acquiring personal information about them.
4. Participants should always keep a watch for warning signs when they are talking to people, such as: the use of foul language, signs of anger for no evident reason, ambiguity in answering direct questions, makes disrespectful remarks, etc. These are some of the symptoms that you should be able to tell before anything could go dreadfully wrong. The person that is exhibiting these types of behaviors may not be honest, and may lead others to danger.
5. Once an online dater has decided to meet his or her date, they should consent to have a meeting place. Individuals must never allow their dates to meet them at home. As the saying goes: “Better be safe than be sorry.” A saying that online dating service participant should always remember.


The Three Biggest Myths About Online Dating Services

By Krisvis On August 11, 2009 No Comments

It seems as if online dating sites are just about everywhere you turn when you are browsing the Internet these days, so what is all this about? Many people are turning to online dating as a starting point to meet someone who shares their interests, no matter what those interests are. Online dating has in fact proven to be a key benefit to those looking for a like-minded partner with interests similar to their own, and is much better than spending time in a bar, in the library, and other “chance” places to meet someone.
However, like anything else, there are a number of misconceptions about online dating services. Much of this is just “logical assumption” on the part of people who do not appreciate online dating, but it is important to dismiss these myths so that you can reap the benefits of an online dating service and find which one is best for you.

Myth #1: You will not locate love online.
This myth was obviously starting by someone who either never attempted any online dating service or maybe joined the wrong service. The facts and information about online dating blow this untruth out of the water. Some of the online dating services are free, but largely you get what you pay for, and for those reluctant to invest a little bit into finding the perfect partner are not serious about finding one.

Myth #2: Online dating is unsafe.
Very wrong! Online dating is as safe as you make it. You apparently need to use caution when you are entering information into your profile. By no means use your home address, your home phone number, your cell phone number, or anything else that could be used to specifically recognize and find you by someone with negative intentions. You can give that information to someone that you have exchanged email with and gotten to know a little bit, starting with providing a cell phone number, and maybe not even providing your home address until you have actually MET that person by mutual agreement in a public place. The safety factor of online dating is completely in your hands, since nobody is forcing you to disclose information about yourself.

Myth #3: Online dating is just for computer nerds.
Nothing could be further from the truth. Of course, there are computer nerds and geeks doing online dating, like there are other computer nerds looking for someone with similar interests. However, the majority of people using online dating are non-geeks; relatively, they are from almost every walk of life, from engineers to lawyers, to doctors, to sales managers, and to everyone else. They are searching for that perfect partner, and are determined to use online dating, and the power of the Internet in their search.

Online dating services are helpful for people looking for someone who share their interests, and viewpoints. In addition, online dating services are not only for the 20-something boy looking for a 20-something girl. Rather, online dating services are also catering to people across the board, with senior online dating, Christian online dating, Jewish online dating, gay and lesbian online dating, and more. Locate the right online dating service for your search requirements and see what happens!


Online Dating or Matchmaker Services?

By Krisvis On August 11, 2009 No Comments

Online dating and matchmaker services have their own benefits and dangers. Of course, you might think that online dating is more dangerous owing to the obviousness of the entire process, but that is not so. In online dating, many people post fake profiles with fake information so that people get easily attracted to them. When they lastly decide to meet up, the other person realizes that the person in the virtual world was a lot different from the one now sitting in front of her/him. The rampant possibility of this practice is because there are no screenings or checks in place, which are required before registering. Anyone can get himself or herself registered on the online dating websites. There are some websites, which do require some kind of verification, but more often than not, the lines of verification are so weak that anyone can without difficulty pass through it.

In the case of a matchmaker service, there is the point of paying for your services, which is almost non-existent in case of online dating. Though you might be asked for a hefty sum for finding the person of your dreams, be confident that he/she would not be the next candidate for becoming a rampant serial killer. This is for the reason that a matchmaker service does a complete background check of all their clients before they entertain them. Other than this, there are many advantages of using a matchmaker service. For example, when you register with the agency, you will get personalized attention for developing your relationship chances. For all those people who are bad at carrying out long and healthy relationships, this is a dream come true.

There is another drawback of using online dating portals because in recent times, they have become the medium through which strippers and prostitutes advertise themselves. In all fairness, when you go to a profile and check it out, it turns out to be a phony profile where some advertisement for escort services is provided. This simply does not take place in matchmaker services, because of the various layers of verification that each person has to go through. In addition, the practice of meeting everyone face-to-face reduces the possibility of that almost to a bare minimum. Matchmaker services are designed to assist you in a clean and clear manner, which supports no deviations. Overall, one has to say that matchmaker services are better than online dating portals for finding the dream person whom you yearn.

So many people have tried Internet dating and have been greatly frustrated. They left their practice wanting more. Many do not know that there is another option available online. A matchmaker dating is able to assure the customer in ways an online dating company never could. The largest distinction is in the system. An online dating service is a computer generated software evaluation. There is not any human concern in the process. With a matchmaker, you work one on one with a real person to help you discover your real love.


The Peculiarities of Online Dating

By Krisvis On August 11, 2009 No Comments

There are a number of new dating sites popping up. This exposes that online dating is getting more and more popular nowadays. No wonder, along with all these new dating sites, so many new Internet users are joining the World Wide Web to become part of this huge new community.

What is so unique about online dating? What is it that makes people take advantage of free dating sites, and prefer online dating to offline dating? In the past, most people were very vigilant about online dating. They considered it almost something shameful or indecent. Today, however, it is common to start building a relationship through online dating. In craving to find a soul mate, in searching to get a future spouse or loved one, people register on free dating sites and other sites designed for such purposes. What are the merits of this online dating?

Firstly, you do not have to create strategic plans or campaigns by designing the place and circumstances in which you will meet your future date. Instead, you will converse by-way-of a computer which is switched onto the Internet. In addition, any computer skills, which you already have (such as browsing the Internet) will serve you here. You are going to find that it is so easy to surf the various dating sites and to register on them. As a rule, you begin your journey by registering on free dating sites. Try that first; study the principles of online dating, and possibly prefer to pay for certain dating services subsequently. The great feature of online dating is that these steps are quick, easy and fun. Besides, you have many profiles to choose from. Internet dating site databases are growing daily. Isn’t it wonderful?

Secondly, Internet dating is superior for timid people who are not comfortable, or who are not brave enough to begin a new relationship. Online dating lets you share your feelings, emotions and thoughts, and to totally reveal yourself, lacking any fear of looking ridiculous. For example, if you are born with the wrong nose, you can correspond at a distance, permitting yourself to present your soul-appearance, and to build a relationship by finding another with your same ideas, values and behavior. Your online correspondence is a chain, which is permitting you to make your relationship firm, and is leading you to have confidence in yourself and your partner. When the time comes for your real-life meeting, you will not be as worried as you might have been, if your meeting had started out by way of offline dating.

Thirdly, and the most important thing, is that Internet dating benumbs your passion. The distance, the physical detachment, makes your emotions more down-to-earth and more controllable by you. In addition, it helps you to accept the other person more appropriately. It is correct that you should not apprehend another person’s personality through physical attraction, but that you should instead, focus on the other person’s inward self, his or her mind and soul. Physical attraction can come because of a quality built relationship, that is to say, honesty with each other from the beginning of correspondence. Besides, being involved in Internet dating means that you will be able to decide if you can move forward or just cut the relationship off. Passion does not control your decision here. A relationship formed through online dating, tested by distance and time, is a very precious and solid relationship.


Approaching Girls - Some Straightforward Tips

By Krisvis On July 20, 2009 No Comments

Look we have all been there, have we not? You catch a glimpse of a girl and she looks sizzling, you are desperate to make a relationship out of it. All of a sudden, all the saliva in your mouth disappears, your tongue is glued to the bottom of your mouth, as you become all nervous wiping the large beads of sweat that are rolling off your forehead.  Its then at that very moment, a little voice inside tells you to forget the whole idea and she is lost forever. I shall present you with some rules, in no specific order to help you approach girls with confidence.

To start with, a guy’s mind must have an inside knowledge of how a woman is designed. The fact is women, as well as the drop dead gorgeous variety, are frequently spurning the adventurous and often quite tiresome advances of men. Merge that truth with this reality, ever since they were kids they have been warned against the dangers of being approached by a stranger.  So how do you break a girl’s security blockade? Okay, step one and you have probably listened to the old chestnut a number of times on your favorite band’s new CD, yet the facts remain,y it is crucial you be yourself. If you try to put on an act, then you will find out that in the end it never works out.

Consequently, how you approach her becomes equally significant, if not more crucial than the opening dialogue which follows. The key to this, is the place of the expected communication, let me explain… The place, moment, and atmosphere will have an effect on the girl’s emotional response. If the meeting occurs at a social gathering like a club or bar, a woman is far more liable to be receptive towards you approaching her, than first thing in the morning as she frenetically dashes to work! If you anticipate winning her consideration in the street or any public place, try stepping to her from an angle, this will decrease her anxiety and surprise, than if you march head on toward her.

Okay, so you have approached her, now you need the critical attention grabbing one-liner, and the more attractive she is, the harder it is going to be. As she has no doubt been subjected to almost every cheesy pick up line out there imaginable, but panic not! As I remarked before, be yourself avoiding trying to be too blunt, and making references to her prettiness or any other blatantly sexual remarks. Try asking a question, but not something dumb like you got the time!  Rather try to build a conversation, and act friendly.  If you were the shy type, a great way to build your confidence would be to practice talking to all strangers you meet. Both male and female, but in neutral places, like your local restaurant, the supermarket cashier, everyplace, just say simple things like “the weathers great” and try to build a conversation or generate reference to your situation.

As a concluding point, be self-confident, girls love being approached by an assertive guy who has a little aura about him.  They love a confident man much more than a man that makes them laugh, but hey, if you can do both, it will be a massive turn on for her.
I expect you enjoyed these dating tips, practice them right away to develop your skills and grow to be comfortable in approaching girls.


Conversational Hypnosis: How To Make Her Dream of You All Night Long

By Krisvis On July 20, 2009 No Comments

Hypnosis is a powerful means that has helped millions of people in many aspects like losing weight, quitting smoking and getting over tragic and devastating emotional suffering. It is a wonderful and relaxing process, that opens your mind to new thoughts and allows you to easily release the stress and anxiety that has been disturbing you.

Those that have gone into a hypnotic trance will inform you of the emotional comfort and relaxation you can feel as you sit there and listen as the voice of experience, that leads you into that wonderful state that is in between alertness and relaxed and unconscious sleep.
One of the most powerful forms of hypnosis ever developed is generally referred to as covert or conversational hypnosis. Covert is a bit of a misnomer, since the doctor who created it, Milton Erickson, was a therapist, and when people came to see him, they were coming for help with a precise problem. There was nothing secret about it at all. Conversational is likely a better term, because an alternative to swinging a watch and telling the patient how sleepy they were getting, he did something different.  He would start telling stories, and by following the apparently random stories he would make up, usually on the spot, their unconscious would see in them a solution to their problems. They would leave the session, doubting what in the world just happened, and a few weeks later, they would notice that their problem had been gone for a long time.

These techniques have been taken out of the therapy room and picked up by two interesting groups of people, salespeople, and seducers of women.  Salespeople that can use the technique masterfully will make you forget you were ever in a confrontational sales situation, and permit you to feel really great for buying something new, possibly something you did not consider buying before, but now you sincerely can imagine how you ever lived with out this. In addition, the feeling continues as every time you use this, you consider those wonderful feelings they made you feel.

Seducers of women use them in a similar fashion. A girl can be sitting at a bar, talking to her friends and some strange person will come up. Maybe he is not even her type, and perhaps he starts talking to her about the usual stuff like current events, politics, or what is on the cover of People magazine. Only after about ten or twenty minutes, she starts to feel a deep link with this person. She starts to have these amazing thoughts, imagining herself and this person doing wonderful things together. Maybe two or three days later, she will still be thinking about this person, hoping that he will call, and when he does, she feels a superb rush of emotions that are usually reserved for secret lovers. That is exactly what this person has become, a secret lover.

If the relationship continues like this, and this person has ethics, and morals it can turn into a wonderful, long lasting relationship with never ending feelings of emotional fulfillment and sexual bliss.  However, just as there are unprincipled salespeople out there, there are seducers of women with less than noble intentions. Some create those feelings only to convince others to satisfy them in the short term. Just like any other skill or tool, it can be employed for good, or evil.

Conversational hypnosis can be a magnificent tool to help others and create lifelong relationships, or it can be used to develop and extract from others what you want. SO use it to your discretion, and be aware that these people, and techniques do exist.


How to Judge a Person by Their Dating Profile

By Krisvis On July 15, 2009 No Comments

Most people are already prepared with the necessary skills that enable them to judge other people, but this is only in the real world. All it takes is a modification of the innate skills of a person in the physical world, to be translated and put to use in the cyber world.  However, it is up to you to judge a person’s dating profile. Once you get the hang of it, you will be amazed by how revealing or not, a dating profile can be, and how likely that person will end up being like their profile.

Evaluating Your Own Social Recognition Skills
Take a jotting pad and a pen, and score out the primary characteristics you usually notice in a person when meeting them for the first time. The best way to do this is to recollect at least five incidences of meeting people for the first time. In a sort of slow motion flashback, identify the characteristics of the person that you first noticed, that helped you judge the person. The dating profile of a person is the online counterpart of meeting a person for the first time.

Run a few profile searches in random and observe the profile characteristics that are revealed in the results. Match the discovered character markers, against the physical world characteristics that you would notice in a person. Mark out the ones that would enable you to assess a dating profile.

What You See is What You Get
Just as pictures can tell a thousand words, you will be able to sort through and right away judge a person, primarily by looking at their pictures. However, you should not use only images of a person to direct your evaluation of their dating profile. Add to your favorite selections, some of the profiles that you instantly like from their pictures, and then further assess the dating profile.

Also the writing style a person uses can tell you a lot about what kind of person they are. A dating profile will contain enough of subjective information entered directly by the individual. Use the general mood of the writing to come up with a mental picture of the personality of the person. A lot of ‘I this’ and ‘I that’ would for example, specify a very ego centric person, but just a few instances, may reveal a very jovial and outgoing person.

Sing Your Inbuilt Evaluation Skills
When you are looking through a dating profile that is visually interesting, you will want to concentrate on some of the physical defining characteristics that build towards a person’s self. These would contain, the indicated height and weight, self-defined nature (also when compared to the expression on the person’s face on the profile image), and other physical characteristics that may help you sketch a mental picture. In the physical world too, such physical characteristics would instantly bring to mind a mental profiling of a person, during a first meeting.

Finally, rely on your intuition. People are generally very well geared to mentally judging a dating profile in the similar manner that they instinctively judge a person in the physical world. It is surprising at how convincing and true most instinctive judgments prove to be.


How To Use Her Nervousness to Your Advantage

By Krisvis On July 8, 2009 No Comments

As you get better with approaching new women, you will find it very easier to just walk up to a woman, say “hi,” and ask for her name. You will moreover realize that most women are actually nice, and will talk to you, while only a few are aloof or act cold towards you. However, what do you do when she suddenly acts nervous while talking to her?

Nervous women are a cute bunch — their eyes dash to the floor when you say hi, they fidget their fingers through their hair, and laugh sheepishly each time she says anything. It does not even matter if they look attractive and self-sufficient, the right approach can send shivers up their spine.

Now, friendly women are easy enough to deal with — after all, it is easy to get an enjoyable conversation out of them. Unfriendly women are also easy to deal with — you just say, “thanks for the time,” and walk quietly away. However, nervous women are a different class; neither of the two previous approaches seems to be a good idea to do!  To deal with nervous women successfully, you will need to initially understand why they feel nervous around you. Consider it — women especially the more attractive ones, are repeatedly approached. These women are almost certainly used to seeing a man trying to act gentlemanly, kissing up to them, and trying to make up to their tastes. This is usual.  However, when a person comes along who does not seem to be affected by her beauty or charm, she immediately wonders what is wrong. She gets questions like- is he not attracted to me? Why is he talking to me so easily? Why is he making me feel this way? This is why women at times feel nervous around certain men — they merely do not know how to react.
In other words, if she is nervous around you, then it is a good indication that she is feeling strange emotions towards you. However, if you keep trying to talk to her, you will make her even more nervous — and that can force her to turn around and walk away. Naturally, you would not want that to occur.

So what is the best thing to do in such a situation? Simple — just go halfway between finding a motivating conversation, and walking away. In other words, get her phone number!  If she is acting nervous, just get ready to leave. Nevertheless, before you do, ask if you can have her number. You will keep her jumpiness from rising, but simultaneously you are giving her the opportunity to see you again. If she is a nice girl, she will give you her number. You can then get in contact with her after a few days, to ask if she would like to meet up for coffee or tea later in the week.

Here is a suggestion — ask for her e-mail initially. E-mail is less disturbing than phone calls, since she can take her time in typing up a reply, and she does not have to really go out of her way to take your call. Ask for her e-mail first, and then her number. The appealing conversation can wait until the first date, so take it slow.