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The Science of Love: What Happens to Your Brain When You Fall in Love?

Introduction: The Mystery and Magic of Love Love is that inexplicable feeling which has inspired countless poets, songwriters, and artists throughout human history. Love seems to be something fundamental to human fulfilment, whether that be romantic love or the love we have for those that are close to us such as dear family and friends. Today we...

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The rules of dating – are you following them?

5 Reasons Why You Might Be In The Wrong Relationship Have you all read ‘The New Rules’ by Ellen Fein and Sherrie Schneider? This is a follow up to the nineties dating bible ‘The Rules’ but after the advent of the internet revolution and it’s a great read. I’m not sure all of the recommendations are being followed however, so here’s a brief...

Online dating fraud is booming

Did anybody see a fascinating article in the Daily Telegraph recently about online dating fraud and scams? It quite shocked me to learn that as many as 200,000 people have been caught up in this and that is around 2.5% of those online currently, it’s big business too with up to $65,000,000 of fraud taking place in the last 12 months or so....

My date was married

lipstick and dating MARRIED, AND DATING! He was married and only wanted a fling – that’s what Jo Elliott has found so many times now and it has inspired her to write a book chronicling her experiences with online dating ‘I’m celibate – get me out of here’ has recently been published and was featured this week in the Daily Mail by journalist...

Is age ‘just a number’ when it comes to finding the right partner?

When new clients come along to meet us they are so often keen to stress to us how young they are for their age. Whilst it may well say one age on their driving licence they tell us that they act, look and feel 10-15 years younger than this. This is all perfectly fine – most of our clients could be described in a similar way as they are people...

Do you really know who you are talking to?

I recently read an article in the Daily Telegraph looking at the problems surrounding dating in the 21st century. It pointed out how people are increasingly constructing two identities – their online and their offline identity. Because of the way people now communicate through social media sites and the rise of online dating there is often a gap...

Are you a Silver Separator?

Yet again I have read recently in press articles about the growing phenomenon of the ‘Silver Separators’ – a continuing trend we are seeing of surging divorce rates amongst the more affluent over sixties. Even though divorce rates are falling in the UK, divorce for the over sixties continues to soar, up by 58% on last year, according to the...

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