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A lot of dating is really about taking chances. If you want to meet someone, if you want to find someone you really click with, it can take a lot of dating, going out there, meeting people, turning down offers and having people turn you down. It's all about trial and error. But what about once you find someone, and they feel similarly about you?

Then you're entering a relationship, and that's where things get tricky. That's where you feel the flutterings and cringes of your heart on a daily and sometimes hourly basis. You can't wait to be with them again, when they do the slightest thing, like call or text you, you feel all warm inside. You ache when they're not there, but you also worry just a little that it can't last. That someone can possibly care about you as much as they do, and want you, as you are, not as you present yourself.

The facade comes down, and let's face it, everyone has a little of a facade. When you start dating you, of course, put your best foot forward. But when you're in a relationship you start to let your partner get to know the real you, and that's not always pretty. In the back of your mind there's always that thought of, am I too weird for this person to handle? Am I too out there for anyone to handle?

Dating, relationships, it's not easy. But the rewards are ultimately indescribable. So what are you doing sitting here reading about dating? Get off your ass and get out there!

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Ben is not the only man with crippling fears when it comes to chatting up women. That's why Charm School, run by an Ann Arbor, Michigan-based company called Charisma Arts, has no problem finding men who need intense guidance and fieldwork approaching women at places like bookstores and bars.

"People think we're teaching guys with no confidence who are bad with women," said Charisma Arts co-founder Wayne Elise. "We teach guys how to be themselves in a very unnatural environment, how to cold approach strangers and make them comfortable enough to open themselves up."

Charisma Arts runs weekend Charm School seminars in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, London and Sydney. Some students find out about the course from the company's Web site, www.charismaarts.com.

The Charm School's lesson plan stays away from canned lines and instructs men to think on their feet when talking to women, to put their insecurities aside and react naturally to a women's subtle cues, said Johnny Saviour, 21, a Charisma Arts instructor.

The class starts on Friday afternoon with the instructors going over Elise's attraction theory. They then practice the theory by approaching each other as if they were women, and they do word association exercises to get their minds tuned into keeping a conversation with a woman rolling.

After a night approaching women at a bar or club, the instructors hold a debriefing the next morning and go over what the participants did right and wrong. Then they head out again to hit on more women.

I have no idea how much they charge or what results they get, but hey, some guys really do need all the help they can get.


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So I clicked the Google ad for Love Spell Specialist:

My Name is Catherine Taylor I am licensed and certified psychic spritual
healer with over 27 years experience.

I help with rebuilding relationships, stopping confusion, blocking outside interference, reconnecting soul mates, stopping divorce, and preventing separation all without force or altering a persons free will. I perform powerful and effective love spells that will guarantee you a life time of ever lasting love and commitment.

Note: None Of My spells are powered By Voodoo,wicca, Hexes, or Black Magic

I'm posting this here so that next time you're talking to your friends and say you've tried everything to find love... we can say, no you haven't. :)

Come on... try the love spell. You know you want to.


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T. says:

I got a response from my response to a bogus email you talk about here. What do you think is up with this? The email came from moscowlights.com where a name and password screen appears.

VictorM's comment:

I can't say for sure how this one con works, but the usual scam in this case is an exchange of emails with that Russian cutie (who's probably some guy in a basement somewhere) and at some point you get some really cute pictures, you start salivating over the prospect of saving this Russian beauty from her hard life. At some point she says she would like to meet you but doesn't have enough money for her passport, or pictures, or visa... whatever, and you send "her" $50 (some amount in this vicinity). And then it'll be the money for the plane tickets, etc. Of course, you never get to meet "her".

The stories are plenty of people who fell pray to this type of con. Don't fall for it. There is no such girl.


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So, I recently attended an anime convention in order to meet a guy I'd met through a dating site. I know, group cringe, an anime convention. It was the place I was about to boldly go where no sane girl had gone before. I have nothing against anime. I'm not obsessed about it, but I'm sure there are things I'm interested in that other people would find weird (like Harry Potter, Bjork, art.) Even the guy was sweating me meeting him at the convention, hence I end up thinking he's nothing but an drunk geek with no life. I assured him I would reserve any opinions for the second date at a less weird location.

He rolls into town, calls me, and I go visit him at the convention center on one of my day's off. Not the best date. He was an interesting combination of talking a good game online, and being socially awkward in person. Mind you, it's easy to talk a good game online, but I let him know ahead of time that I was not about to slide into home on the first date. Online he was witty, slightly self deprecating, and intelligent. In person, just shy, quiet, and didn't do much conversation starting.

But that is not my point. Despite the fact that the date didn't go well, I did score something quiet unexpected. His hotel roommate and I ended up having SO much in common. One look at his ipod and I realised we had a lot of the same music, and an interest in each other's music. We had SO much in common, that my date started to look like the third wheel. A session of music swapping later and we started chatting online, texing during the work day, and using up several of my roll-over minutes (thank you Cingular.)

So, even if a date doesn't look overly promising, don't cancel or not bother trying. You never know who you'll meet along the way.

I made the previous post as a joke. Apparently, Koroleva Anastasia's email got around quite a bit. I was checking the search engine results of how people get to this site, and this page got quite a few hits on "Koroleva Anastasia". Lots of people must be wondering about that email they got.

People... it's a scam!

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