Stuart Clarke offers some “sobering” advice.

From Stephanie Gwee at AsiaOne Digital

AFTER trying to find Mr Right on general online dating sites like Match.com for more than a year, designer Michelle Chan decided to go one step further.

The 29-year-old went to niche dating portal AnimalAttraction.com six months ago. There, she met another dog lover, a 33-year-old architect, and they dated for three months.

But long-term love was not to be.

(read more Love actually…virtually …)

From Kenneth Scott at The Makeup Blog

Online dating has become increasingly popular over the past several years. Every year millions of men turn to internet dating in an effort to meet more women without risking face-to-face rejection. Unfortunately, internet dating doesnt work very well for most men because the odds are so heavily against them.

According to a November, 2003 study by Jupiter Research, men are four times more likely than women to subscribe to an online dating site and twice as likely to browse, post, or respond to a profile. Obviously, those odds are stacked strongly in favor of the women.

That’s just a fact but it’s not hopeless.

(read more Why Online Dating is So Tough For Men…)

The sad part is he’s getting more coverage now than he did during the primary.

I don’t get the part where the broadcaster says it’s sending shockwaves thru the presidential campaign. Edwards is out of the race and wasn’t going to be vice president. So what’s this guy talking about?

From Obie Fernandez at his blog:

From “Gift From The Sea” by Anne Morrow Lindbergh

When you love someone, you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is even a lie to pretend to. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand. We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of the tide and resist in terror its ebb. We are afraid it will never return.

(read more Security in a Relationship…)

This is all over the news.

WASHINGTON - Former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards on Friday admitted to an extramarital affair while his wife was battling cancer. He denied fathering the woman’s daughter.

Edwards told ABC News that he lied repeatedly about the affair with a 42-year-old woman but said that he didn’t love her. He said he has not taken a paternity test but knows he isn’t the father because of the timing of the affair and the birth.

ABC said a former Edwards campaign staffer claims he is the father, not Edwards.

Wow.

(read more Sen John Edwards admits to affair…)

From Sahar El-Bahr at Al-Ahram Weekly:

Egyptian proverbs insist it is better for a woman to be married to a useless man than to be living alone. And while new findings indicate that recently 75,000 couples have obtained divorce, what studies tend to ignore is the backdrop to divorce, and the difficulties women wishing to split from their husbands undergo. “The process of obtaining divorce is very difficult,” said Mona, an unemployed divorcee with two children. “Because getting married is costly, parents who have already spent much of their savings on their daughters’ weddings will think twice before supporting a change of mind, regardless of the pain their girls are going through.” This is especially true, said Mona, who preferred to withhold her full name, when there are children, and therefore more mouths to feed

It’s still tough going for far too many women in that part of the world but Egypt’s divorce rate is just a reflection of what is happening around the globe

(read more Loveless in Egypt…)

From David Gutierrez at Natural News:

(NaturalNews) People who are happily married have lower blood pressure than those who are single or in an unhappy marriage, according to a study conducted by researchers from Brigham Young University and published in the Annals of Behavioral Medicine.

The researchers had 204 married adults and 99 single ones wear portable blood-pressure monitors for a complete 24-hour period. These monitors allowed researchers to take random blood pressure readings 72 different times during the day.

I’ll take their word for it but something tells me know matter how many times you take a reading you still need more than 24 hours to determine whether a marriage is happy or not.

(read more A Happy Marriage Boosts Heart Health…)

From Kristen Houghton at The Baltimore Examiner:

Are you single, a parent, and ready to start dating again?

If you are the single mom of a young child the idea of dating can become a major issue. You feel, and rightly so, that your first responsibility is to your child. That goes without saying. But while the wonders of parenthood are great, you still have a need to meet, and spend time with, an adult member of the opposite sex.

How can you make the polar opposites of parenting and dating gel?

(read more Dating as a Single Parent…)

From Joseph S. Enoch at ConsumerAffairs.com

Like so many others who go looking for love on Internet dating sites, Annette was lonely.

She thought she had found the answer to her loneliness when in early March, Eharmony.com matched her with John, a fair-skinned 41-year-old Christian building engineer from California.

The only problem was that he was working on a project in Nigeria, but would be back in the U.S. soon with his daughter, Hailey.

You must be on guard against the individual internet dating scam but apparently larger forces have turned these scams into big business.

(read more Internet Dating Scams Can Get Expensive…)