Showing posts with label finding love. Show all posts
Showing posts with label finding love. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Do You Want to Find Love Washington DC?

I'm not looking for love right now because I live with my boyfriend, but my friend is looking for Love Washington DC. She is finding it extremely difficult to get a date, and when she does it never seems to work out for her. So I strongly suggested that she go online and find some sites that she was comfortable signing up with. She said she would only do it if I helped her with her profile and pictures.

 

I had no problem with this so we spent one afternoon working on her profile so that she could make some love matches. The profiles were harder then I thought. You really need to take a lot of time thinking through each question so you're as honest as possible, yet appealing at the same time. Also, some of the sites had personal essays you had to write about yourself. These were difficult too because again, you don't want to sound boring and un-sexy.

 

When it came to picking out the photos for Love Washington DC it got a little easier. She is an attractive woman and photographs well. But you need a variety of shots to post. One sexy photo - but not too provocative, a group photo with friends, and a couple of individual photos - dressed casually or dressed up, and a headshot. Some people pay to have a headshot taken, but it's not necessary to spend the money if you have a good one, or one that you can crop and post.

 

After finishing the registration process you can just sit back and wait and see who comes to you, or if you have the confidence reach out to some men you find attractive. It's really important when you're finding love to be safe about it. There are a lot of predators out there who use the Internet to prey on innocent people.

 

Most dating sites have safety instructions included on their website, and I told my friend she should seriously follow them. I also gave her my own set of tips. She was grateful and promised she'd be safe. After about two months she was going on dates with all sorts of interesting men she found on Love Washington DC. Hopefully she'll find a lasting connection.

 

About the Author

Thursday, October 13, 2011

How I Found Love Washington DC

I met my fiancé because of Love Washington DC. We both love baseball and met at a sports bar to watch the Yankees-Indians playoff game in 2007. Unfortunately, the Yankees lost and we were both disappointed. After the final game we decided to walk home together because it was such a beautiful fall night and it turned out that he lived two blocks away from me in downtown DC.

 

After baseball season we began talking on the phone about football, which I knew very little about. I just didn't understand the game. We went out on a love date at a Thai restaurant and then planned to watch the game in my building's party room. I didn't want to watch in my apartment because I didn't know him that well and wasn't ready to have him come over.

 

When the game started he began to explain every detail about what was going on. He was very patient with me and answered all of my questions. It turned out that I not only understood the game more easily than I thought, but I began to like football and started reading up on the teams and got a better understanding of the nuances of the sport. That night in the party room we had our first kiss and because of Love Washington DC we began a serious relationship that included watching football every Sunday and Monday night.

 

I never wanted to find love on the Internet. My parents even volunteered to pay for me to join certain websites so I could get married. They felt that because I was 41 I'd never meet a man. First of all, I believe love comes to you when you're not looking, and secondly, I was too afraid of these Internet sites. Looking at someone's photo and having lunch or dinner with a complete stranger just didn't make me feel safe. Meeting my fiancé at the sports bar was the best thing that ever happened to me. Our love of sports and other hobbies are what keeps our relationship fun.

 

If it weren't for Love Washington DC, I wouldn't have a beautiful diamond on my finger today.

 

 

About the Author

Monday, September 19, 2011

Want to Find Love Washington DC?

I found Love Washington DC at the ESPN Zone watching the New York Yankees play the Cleveland Indians in the ALDS in 2007. I didn't go there to look for a boyfriend. I went there to watch the playoffs with a bunch of Yankees fans.

 

Finding love can be difficult if you look to hard. Try and just live your life like you normally do and I believe love will find you. However, if you stay inside all of the time like a hermit that won't work.

 

I was a hermit for a long time and I didn't find Love Washington DC. I would go to work, come home, walk my dog, go to the grocery store to buy dinner - or order in, and then spend the evening watching TV and old DVR'd programs. It was a very lonely existence because I had just moved to DC from Florida and did not know one single soul. I won't go to bars alone and I won't hit on men. Not that I'm a shy or unattractive person at all, it's just something I'm not comfortable with.

 

My non love search at the ESPN Zone just sort of happened. He is now my fiancé and we will be getting married next summer. Relationships can be difficult so don't expect the second six months to a year to be a breeze. I find that there definitely is a honeymoon period and it does end. Little habits of his or her start to bother you, you have your first big fight, start having second thoughts and that's why so many relationships fizzle out within a year.

 

But that doesn't have to happen. Working on your Love Washington DC relationship and making it through the tough times only makes the relationship stronger. I went through a really rough six months with my fiancé but made it through to the other side and now we are a stronger couple. The key is not throwing in the towel too early. So many marriages end too soon because people are not willing to work on their marital issues. Don't become one of those people. Almost anything is fixable when it comes to relationships.

 

About the Author

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Love And Our Expectations

 

During life, we all seek to know someone well enough to feel love and be loved; we seek to connect and be a part of another person's life.  When we look for love, sometimes we are looking for a lot more than love itself.  We are not just looking for someone to be with, but we are also looking to fulfill everything we need in life.  We want understanding, someone by our side; we want companionship, sentiment, and all the desired characteristics we find attractive and need in another person.  Love has a big list to fill, or so we think so.

Finding love can be a lot easier when we let go of all that we think we need because love can be enough all by itself.  It is when we get distracted by our other needs that we forget or even overlook the love that is or can be there, for finding love isn't about finding the criteria we think we need in another person.  Love is more than our list of what we want.  Love, true love, can be in a very different from what we would ordinarily find attractive or essential to our needs.  Imagine if you were more open and aware of what your true needs were and instead looked from this place?  Imagine if you let go of all you think you need in order to fall in love with someone?  By letting go of your agenda of what love is and needs to be, you can feel love for the sake of love.   If you let go of how it must be, you can feel it from a more pure place.                

We may not even see the love that is available to us because of our biased idea of how it must be for us.  True love, the person that really fits us, does not always come in the package we deem essential.  If you let go of your idea of the perfect match, the perfect love, and allowed yourself just to feel and be open, who would you see?  What person in your life have you overlooked simply because they didn't fit in with your idea of the perfect mate?  What relationship are you stuck in because you believe this is what love should be, even if you don't feel it?  Love can come from the most unexpected places.  Do not keep yourself stuck in a loveless relationship because you think it is ideal and fits with your expectations.  Do not ignore the possibilities based on your assumptions of what this other person may or may not be.  Open yourself up to everything around you and lose your criteria for love.  Love encompasses more than you think, and it can overshadow all you have ever known so far.  Let yourself find love by escaping from what you think love is.  Open up to love with no ideas of how it has to be.  When you do this, finding love is a lot easier, for you give yourself a chance to find the love you are meant to be with.

About the Author

Open up to the peace you will find when you finally see yourself, your true self, and learn how to truly be in the moment at Answers in Writing.

Adam Benedetto and Zoe Young are both dedicated to enabling others to reach their full potential in life, to help others release what is holding them back, and to find their true selves. Through years of experience and development, both have sought out the answers we all need to find peace, understand ourselves, and reach enlightenment.