ONLINE DATING STORIES -- THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY!
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Over the past decade I spent many years involved with online dating. At first I did it in New York City and then later in suburban New Jersey. While I lost count, I think I dated at least 200 men over a period of eight years AND I LIVED TO TELL ABOUT IT!
Every so often I would recount my experiences to my friends and they would stare at me aghast or simply roar with laughter. One friend told me I had to write down my experiences in a book and so I did!
"Confessions of an Online Dating Addict: A True Account of Dating and Relating in the Internet Age" was just published and is now available at my website http://www.confessionsofanonlinedatingaddict.com or via Amazon.com or Barnes and Noble.com.
I like to say the book is a cross between "Sex and the City" and "Bridget Jones's Diary" meets "He's Just Not That Into You."
Readers have been writing to tell me they just can't put it down and finish it in one sitting!
I hope you will check it out. It recounts all of my experiences in online dating and also gives some advice to those who are thinking about doing online dating and want to know how to get started and how they should approach it.
Happy reading!
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Mr. Goodfellow must be making a buck off stereotypes about western women. As one who happens to live in Asia, and who speaks fluent Chinese, I sometimes come across unflattering beliefs. All over Asia you can see white guys hooked up with Asian women--it's so commonplace. We joke around that any white guy can go to Asia and instantly go from "zero" to "hero." A lot of these guys get a big surprise when they tie the knot. Sometimes that sweet, submissive Asian lady who avoids expressing any frustrations suddenly becomes an insanely jealous, manipulative thing... Then, of course, there are the dalu mei - the golddiggers who disappear the moment they get their green cards. Those relationships are basically business deals.
When western women joke that they can't get a date in Asia, I think half the time it is about a clash of their images of masculinity with Asian images of masculinity. Personally, I quite like successful, intelligent Chinese guys, who talk about feelings differently than Euro Americans do... Forget the white guys, then.
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J. Goodfellow says:
5 weeks ago
A lot under discussion seems to be based on the "values" of the model presented from the "Sex and the City" genre. My take? Western women: UGH, PHOOEY! It's why so many Western men, in particular American men, turn to foreign women, especially women from the Orient, to find a life partnership. In the last few years the "women's movement" in the USA has turned to trying to legislate severe obstacles and roadblocks in American men's pursuit of a foreign wife. A realization that they fail miserably to measure up?