The Relationship Tip

David Zurawik makes a prediction and it’s a good one.

But within that overarching stucture, here is the dominant storyline that I predict will develop: Kate will emerge as the responsible parent holding the home together for the kids and providing them with whatever fun and sense of joy we see them having.

I got that feeling also especially after this. Jon is walking right into a media image trap and you can bet that many of those people who were in his corner are going to turn on him in droves.

Update: If the comment section on Dave’s blog is any indication the wheels are already in motion

Update II: As if he didn’t have enough trouble:

former tabloid reporter, Kate Major is going to tell the world on her romance with Jon & Kate Plus 8 star ‘Cheater’ Jon Gosselin.

Gosselin has vehemently denied Major’s claims and the time frame as well as pronouncement are suspect but check out the moniker attached to Gosselin.

Yes we have that big old Match.com banner on the front page of this blog and online dating can be a great experience. Besides potentially meeting that special someone you can also network and meet some great people.

However we do not want to sugarcoat it. There is a not so good side that you must be aware of. Knowing what’s out there can make your online dating experience a lot more pleasurable.

Over at the blog Living My Life On Purpose provides 5 pretty strong marriage tips.

David Wyngant:

Are you someone who listens to products or reads books expecting change to happen to you as you’re on the couch in your pajamas? No matter whose product or book you get — whether it’s mine, Tony Robbins’, Wayne Dyer’s or someone else’s — the answer lies within you (see Saturday’s blog for how I feel about that issue).

You can read self-help books until you’re blue in the face, but if you don’t practice what they teach then your life will never change.

That’s for anything and that is exactly David’s point.

The marriage did not even make it to the two year mark. Is it a surprise? Not to Usher’s fans:

A lot of people did not like them together from the very beginning,” said Natasha Eubanks, creator of The Young Black & Fabulous, a popular black celebrity gossip blog. “People didn’t know a lot about her so they wondered if she was some golddigger and where did she come from.”

Speculation that the couple was on the rocks had stirred for months.

It’s kind of ridiculous to form an opinion like that based on the fact “people didn’t know a lot about her” but it takes two to tango and Usher is a grown man who went into the relationship with his eyes open.

I get a lot of articles to this blog about how to get your ex back. While they do have validity and offer some good tips in many ways I find it more important to learn how to move on.

One reason why?

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Discussing the problem with free online dating services awhile back I wrote:

A good deal of the [internet dating] success has to be credited to the free online dating services particularly places like Plenty of Fish which is the crown jewel of the no cost dating websites.

But even a powerhouse free dating service has its problems. Plenty of Fish founder Markus Frind stated on his blog in January,”I’m letting hundreds of millions of dollars in revenues slip through my fingers every year by sending people to competitors’ sites. Given what everyone else in the market is doing now the only real choice we have is to acquire a mass market paid dating site or build one myself.”

And it looks like Markus is doing just that.