No Frill Dating

Last night, Emily Maynard met her group of men in the annual awkward TV first date that is the Bachelorette premiere. While this year’s group had no masked men or rapping doctors , there was a dude with an ostrich egg that he promised to babysit for the whole season, a skateboard entrance, a dancing entrance, a helicopter entrance, and a suitor dressed as his grandmother. Nice work, Bachelorette    .. more …

Standing on the practice tee, envisioning an older version of Tiger Woods, I felt younger than I had in decades – if you don’t factor in the aching back, sore elbow and the smell of liniment. In fact, I felt 14, which happens to be how old I was when I had my first date. It was no coincidence considering that I was just as nervous as I had been on that fateful day. I was about to play a round of    .. more …

~li~ Print Share Comment Rex Features Whether it’s listening to a favourite song and rehearsing conversation topics in front of the mirror to sprucing ourselves up with a tan or wax appointment, between them Brits spend an incredible 15,000 hours each day getting ready to leave a lasting impression. But it seems our pre-date rituals are often determined by where we live. While Londoner’s are    .. more …

By Deborah Kotz, Globe StaffI was perusing my daughter’s latest copy of Glamour and found a disturbing dating survey that the magazine conducted of 8,000 singles nationwide in conjunction with match.com. Boston received the notorious distinction of ranking number one for men who expect to have sex on the first date. One out of eight men surveyed in Boston expected his date to hop into bed after a    .. more …

A WOMAN was locked in a bedroom and raped on her first date with a man she met on the internet.The 19-year-old victim had been communicating with Alfred Scott Liddle on the web for a week when they arranged to meet for the first time.All went well until they ended up back at a friend’s house and Liddle turned nasty when she rejected his advances.Despite the girl repeatedly telling him she was not    .. more …

First dates can be pretty awkward. Even more so when television cameras spot you on one, encourage fans to vote on the likelihood of a second date and then ask point-blank to commit to one. That’s exactly what happened during the Diamondbacks-Cardinals game on Tuesday night, however, when two fans brought a sign with them proclaiming that they were on their first date. Arizona announcers Daron    .. more …

Many of us are still riding the Think Like A Man wave, zooming straight to the “serious” questions and faintly hearing wedding bells. But we beg you, Vixens, stop playing the game and tread a little    .. more …

Joel Einhorn of Fresh Meadows, N.Y., has played the ponies for 50 years. He took his wife on their first date to Belmont Park. He owns a few claiming horses. And he qualified and played in a national handicapping championship in Las Vegas in January. So he’s no slouch at the betting window. “I’ve had my good days and my bad days,” the retired owner of a butcher equipment company said modestly.    .. more …

DURHAM – Harold Wright calls his late wife, Naomi Turner Wright, “an absolute saint, the greatest Christian woman I have ever seen in my life.”Wright has 45 years of memories of the woman who took him to church on their first date and told friends he was “the kissingest man I’ve ever seen.”But the life that was so full of joy turned into a nightmare for Wright since the love of his life was    .. more …

While I don’t remember my early firsts, I do remember my first date, my first kiss and I can vividly recall the first moment I knew my husband was the “one.”Becoming a parent means savoring the many firsts of my children and just thinking of some of those moments makes me smile and even laugh out loud.It isn’t my son’s or daughter’s first words or steps I remember the most.One of my daughter’s    .. more …