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“My boyfriend used to ask his mother, ‘How can I find the right woman for me?’ and she would answer, ‘Don’t worry about finding the right woman- concentrate on becoming the right man.’”

Dagny’s Entry [October 15, 2009]

As we’ve been discussing in the last few posts, dating can be a tricky endeavor, and the online forum can do one of two things for people. It can offer them a kind of freedom that they might not have in a more temporal setting — like in a bar or at a party — but it can also prove to be more complicated to navigate since the element of actual human contact has been removed from the equation. Today I would like to offer some examples of ways in which men make mistakes online that often cost them the opportunity of meeting someone who might be of great interest. Now, before you get up in arms about the imbalance here, I want to say that I realize that women are part of this equation, and that they can make just as many mistakes as men do; however, since I have not pursued a woman online, I cannot speak to this experience. We will rely on our wonderfully forthright male readers to provide us with a view from the other side of the computer screen. Agreed? Thank you.

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