Tag: Dating Tips

  • With Online Dating, Dealbreakers Are Better Early Than Late

    With Online Dating, Dealbreakers Are Better Early Than Late

    Although we feel this is a general rule that applies to multiple areas of our personal and professional lives, stating your dealbreakers early is paramount to dating success (whether online or not!). Think of it as a job qualification. The employer must state all qualifications – licenses, certifications, years of experience, etcetera – or else […]

  • Drink your Drink: Knowledge is greater than submission

    Drink your Drink: Knowledge is greater than submission

    We live in a time where lack of knowledge is tantamount to laziness. We may no longer fly under the radar uninformed on major aspects of our lives. It’s ok to not know that Gaspar Noé’s film Irreversible contains a french nightclub’s underbelly fight scene that directly influenced Nicolas Winding Refn’s film Drive, starring Ryan Gosling, in […]

  • Gamers: What to Wear on a First Date

    Gamers: What to Wear on a First Date

    Esquire has been around the block a few times.  If you’ve got a first date coming up that you’re pumped about (I would hope you would be excited; if not, why are you going?), then choosing what to wear can be an issue.  Us guys usually have a handful of go-to shirts, usually of the […]

  • Fall Date Ideas for Gamers

    Fall Date Ideas for Gamers

    With the imminent arrival of Fall comes beautiful colors, cooler temperatures, and lots of new creative date ideas for gamers.  While beach days at the lake may not be as good of an idea this time of year, all it takes is a little creativity and prep and you can sip hot chocolate on the […]

  • Who’s Viewed Your LFG Profile?

    Who’s Viewed Your LFG Profile?

    Registering for free at LFG Dating has many perks – finding love being one – but how about that feeling you get when you think someone is checking you out?  As soon as you’re aware of what’s happening, adrenaline usually starts flowing, and nervousness or excitement sets in.  At that point you either make your […]

  • How Soon to Call Her?

    How Soon to Call Her?

    Every guy has asked this question, and likely heard a different answer every time.  So how soon should you call her?  The next day. That’s it. I don’t care if it’s after your first date, or you met her at a bar last night – call her the next day.  Don’t call her the same […]

  • How to Turn Her Down

    How to Turn Her Down

    Getting turned down is tough to hear, but it’s even harder to say.  99% of the time, daters online or offline simply go for the avoidance route: if she doesn’t call, text, or message you back, chances are she’s moved on.  If you’re on the receiving end, that route can especially hurt, especially if you […]

  • Gents: The Ladies Say Don’t Be Boring

    Gents: The Ladies Say Don’t Be Boring

    Do NOT Commit This Major Online Dating Mistake (It’s My New Pet Peeve!)  And while the ladies over at Glamour do make a great point, the true can be said for their team as well.  Whereas guys may be bland and have dull profiles, there is an argument on the female profile for pure repetitiveness, […]

  • How to Wear Cologne if You’re a Gamer

    How to Wear Cologne if You’re a Gamer

    Raise your controller if you have no idea how to wear cologne.  Okay, hands down.  The Rules of Scent are extremely simple, and who better than the gentlemen over at Men’s Health to fill us in?  Heck, even the legendary Ron Burgundy got bad cologne advice from Paul Rudd; Sex Panther may work 60% of […]

  • 5 Tips for Dating a Gamer Girl

    5 Tips for Dating a Gamer Girl

    Gamer girls.  They do exist, you know.  In fact, this past January during an advertising campaign we ran as part of our official beta, 48% of our user sign-ups here at LFG Dating were women.  I am not kidding.  This gamer girl is also not kidding when it comes to her 5 tips for dating […]