Courting Women: How to Do It Online

Courting Women: How to Do It Online Jasbina Ahluwalia asks Julie Spira and Dr. Dale Koppel: Do you have any advice for them in terms of courting and approaching women online? Do either of you have anything to share with our male listeners along those lines? _____ Dr. Dale Koppel Courting Women: The Special Emails I was especially appalled by men who would send what were entirely formulated emails. They were very long.

Online Date Fails!

Online Date Fails! Jasbina Ahluwalia asks Julie Spira and Dr. Dale Koppel: Speaking of the strangest, I’d love for each of you to share your funniest, strangest or favorite online dating story. I know that you have quite a few from reading your books. They’re very entertaining books. Throw out one or two of your favorites. Julie, do you want to start? _____   Julie Spira Online Date Fails: Dead Wife Look Alike

Choosing Online Dating Profile Picture

Choosing Online Dating Profile Picture Jasbina Ahluwalia asks Julie Spira and Dr. Dale Koppel: Listen to your intuition and your gut on that one. Safety is very important. You’ve mentioned before the biggest and most typical online dating mistakes that you see people make, both men and women. I know you mentioned negativity before. Is there anything that you keep coming across both professionally and personally in terms of mistakes that people can

Protect Privacy in Online Dating

Protect Privacy in Online Dating Jasbina Ahluwalia asks Julie Spira and Dr. Dale Koppel: Julie, you wrote, “I’m a believer that sometimes we’re on a need-to-know basis. I wonder why sometimes people reveal information that’s rather personal in nature.” You later wrote, “I always explain to my dates that I ration my information flow.” Tell us about that. _____   Julie Spira Protect Privacy in Online Dating: Ration Information Yes. I ration my

Who Should Initiate Conversation Online?

Who Should Initiate Conversation Online? Jasbina Ahluwalia asks Julie Spira and Dr. Dale Koppel: Dr. Koppel, you wrote, “I knew instinctively that I couldn’t sit back and wait for men to contact me. My instincts were correct. Most men, especially those of a certain age, don’t need to contact women. They can just sit back and wait for the women to contact them. As a rule, I found that the men who did

Writing Online Dating Profiles: Tips

Writing Online Dating Profiles: Expert Tips Jasbina Ahluwalia asks Julie Spira and Dr. Dale Koppel: Julie, tell me about what you’ve found in your experience. I know that your experience is personal as well as expert. What do you think about describing what you’re looking for in a partner and in your life as opposed to describing who you think you are in your profile? Is that something you’ve run across? _____ Julie

Online Dating Profile: Be Yourself

Online Dating Profile: Describe Yourself Jasbina Ahluwalia asks Julie Spira and Dr. Dale Koppel: Dr. Koppel, in terms of writing an online profile, you say, “Don’t say it when you can show it.” Can you give us some examples? _____   Dr. Dale Koppel Online Dating Profile: Use Humor Yes, I can. I like to use the example where everyone says they have a sense of humor. I remember all of the times

Perfect Partner Has Same Values

Perfect Partner Has Same Values Jasbina Ahluwalia asks Julie Spira and Dr. Dale Koppel: Dr. Koppel, you found your Mr. Right online, as you had mentioned. You say in your book, “My list proved to be a work in progress. The more men I met, the more deal-breakers I added to it. Still, in the end, I realized that my list had functioned only as a framework, a crutch that I could and

Online Dating Sites: Who’s The Best?

Online Dating Sites: Who’s The Best? Jasbina Ahluwalia asks Julie Spira and Dr. Dale Koppel: That’s amazing. Julie, the people that we at Intersections Match work with tend to be successful, educated, family-oriented and fit men and women. Are there any particular online sites that you tend to recommend for 30 or 40-somethings who meet this demographic? _____ Julie Spira Online Dating Sites: eHarmony One of the most popular sites that is geared

Evolution of Online Dating

Evolution of Online Dating Jasbina Ahluwalia asks Julie Spira and Dr. Dale Koppel: Thank you for sharing that. Julie, you wrote in your book, “My position as a cyber-dating expert encompassed over 250 dates in my 30s, 40s and 50s.” Tell us about any differences you found dating online in your 30s versus your 40s. _____   Julie Spira Evolution of Online Dating: Internet Boom (5:58): I think the biggest difference that I