Dates needn’t be limited to roses & chocolates and holding hands at the movies. That’s the traditional eighties version and quite outmoded today. Today’s style is all about individual expression calling for sassy, innovative and even mindblowingly crazy stuff. The techno-funk nineties gifted us the raves and the punks. You can go even further and date in more zany ways.

For adventurous fun-lovers, it’s up, up and away to a hot-air balloon ride together. Propel yourself to new dreams and fantasies. You could also zap your date by writing into a children’s show with a cute message for her. That will give you something to talk about for days to come and you could end up being the talk of town to boot! If you are your own person and do value your privacy you could get all smarmy and smoochy, by just tuning into MTV and lip-sync with your honey to your favorite tunes. You might never know where it could end up, simply cosying or something more lusty.

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If you are definitely the uncompromising, individualistic person, try being innovative by celebrating Friday the 13th – sharing shameful superstitions. You could discover lots about your partner. For a really zany do, go for a hair cut together and gawk into the looking glass at the wonderful transformation you manage to achieve. Some glasnost. Could be quite a turn on particularly if both of you get each other’s initials inscribed into your locks!

Dating style is all about individual expression calling for sassy, innovative and even mindblowingly crazy stuff.

If you are an outdoorsy, physical (!) person, give your date a real turn. Simply pack your loved one on a Victoria (horse-drawn buggy) and explore the forgotten nooks crannies of your city. You never know how the close intimacy affects her. Could be quite a turn on. Continuing the theme, grab your camera and go to the zoo for a great afternoon. A cuddly kitten, no we are not talking about her, could lead to great shows of affection and warmth. Alternately visit a pet shop with him and buy him a puppy – there’s yet not man born who will not melt at the prospect of getting a dog of his own.

And if it’s something sedate you are looking for, couch potato yourselves and watch a soap opera together and have a nice good laugh at the splendid nonsense. Do provide yourself with some suggestive love foods and you could land up feeding each other more than tit-bits.

Optionally, capture your sweetheart for the afternoon. Spread out the dhurries and plump up the cushions and settle down to a no-holds barred session of Ludo or Monopoly. You’ll get searing insights on your partner’s interior motives.

For that absolutely marvelous feeling of course there is nothing better than taking your date to a high revolving restaurant or one with a roof top view of the city replete with dancing lights twinkling all about you. As the red candles melt in their engraved silver holders, it’s you guys who’d be sizzling. Learn to waltz together or kick-dance, flamenco or salsa, try all the colours of sensuality from Cherrie to carmine and top off the night with a warm luxurious feeling underneath as you sip your brandy cocktail.

For the homing pigeons there’s nothing that can’t be done on a low budget. Spotlight on accessories. Does that sound strange? Surely not to collectors of trivia. Go berserk at the local flea market flitting from shop to shop wrenching out low budget but really unusual collectibles for you or the home. Try being functional in the most captivating way. Tip yourselves into the world of enchantment.

For those who do believe in the abundance of life, and all its blessings, here’s something humanitarian to do that will tickle your charity bone. Donate blood together and smile. Make someone’s day with a stop by at Mother Teresa’s Home for the Underprivileged and brighten someone’s day.

I’ve been engaged 3 times – only married once. The first time was to my high school sweetheart – a few short weeks before the ceremony – right before his college graduation – he broke my heart. He left me for another man. Uh-huh, you heard that right. Suffice it to say, we made our way back to each other six years later and have maintained a platonic friendship for many years (we send birthday and holiday cards to each other).

The second time was a rebound off of the previous situation – what was I thinking???

This time there was a wedding – and just as I was about to divorce the guy 2 years later, I found out that my marriage wasn’t legal to begin with – so I got an anullment for sixty bucks.

I spent the next 10 years of my life dating a few guys but I never felt empowered in my relationships with them. Right before I moved out west, I was dating a guy who was 20 years older than myself. One Sunday afternoon, he sat me on his knee (like a daughter) and gave me the talk that I wish my own father had given me around age 14 or so. He taught me what I needed to know about how men think and how to maintain my own standards and self-esteem regarding dating relationships. (By the way, he’s a published author on relationships).

Let me tell you, my whole world changed after that afternoon. I learned that I now had the key to attract the types of relationships I desire – be they of a personal or of a business nature. No longer did I feel like a victim of romantic circumstances! I felt like a caterpillar who had just metamorphed into a monarch butterfly. To this day, when I remember to follow this advice, things always turn out great.

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Friendship and friends continue to remain central to our lives. The relationship that we share with our friends is grounded in a mutual concern as our friends help us in shaping up our personalities as well. Even in this age of online social networking and ecards, the need of expanding the network of friends, whether online or offline remains a primary concern for people. We may have a very vague understanding of what makes a friend but we all want to have a good many number of friends around us. Research has shown that the quality and nature of your friends are one of the key influencing factors in achieving happiness, self esteem, and satisfaction. Friends often affect the health and energy of a person as well. More and more people are increasingly turning towards their friends for support and mutual sharing rather than communicating to their relatives; and this sociological phenomenon has escalated the desire to make more friends. Though friendship is an impulsive relationship developed between two autonomous individuals marked by a voluntary, emotional and mutual concern, but there are certain steps, which, if implemented can win you friends or at least help you get close to those whom you want to make your friends.

The first step to make friends with someone is to make them like you. If they don’t like you in the first place, it is unlikely that they’ll be eager to become your friends. To let someone know that you are genuinely interested in them, simple gestures like a little smile and calling him by his name can lay the basic foundation. To make the other person feel important you need to be a good listener and encourage the other person to talk. Give your honest and sincere opinion but do not overtly criticize or make fun of him or her.

The second step of making someone your friend is to develop a mutual consideration between each other. You need to share his or her perspective and for that it is necessary for you to develop an inclination to see things from the other person’s point of view. To become best of friends you must show a genuine concern and consideration for your friend’s desires and opinions.

The third and final step towards friendship is to show your unconditional support and encouragement towards your friend. Moreover, you also need to be very clear about your expectations from your friend. If what you expect from the person you want to befriend, matches with what that person can and want to contribute in friendship, the developing friendship between you and your friend is assured to flourish, making both of you gratified with mutual emotional bonding.

Friendship has overwhelming significance on both social and individual level. Friendship doesn’t only provide us with emotional as well as utilitarian support but it also helps us to improve our personal identities. So it is quite natural to feel the urge to reach out and make new friends, expanding your friend’s circle. Using the internet and the associated services like free friendship ecards come as a natural extension to this escalating aspiration. Friendship remains familiar yet quite ambiguous for our deeper understanding of this elusive relationship but then again, friends remain the most important ingredients in the recipe of life!

I’m back and kind of to my old self again. If you want to get the skinny on what happened to me over the last few weeks, read it here. Anyway, now that I’m back, I realize that when I started this blog I really had the right idea. Single truly is the new relationship and for the beginning of 2008, I began to have a new relationship with myself and tracked my journey here.  I learned to love myself more. Figure myself out more. And I know that may sound quite sappy to some of you but it isn’t as easy as it seems. It’s not like I’m so completely together right now to not look in the mirror sometimes and say, “Ugh” at myself when I think about all my mistakes so far.

But what I did do was stop obsessing negatively about being single.  I had my bouts of instanity while going through my single reevaluation process, and I am sure some of you have read them here. But overall I believe my mission was accoplished. And maybe a bit too well. Because you see, now I am in a relationship. Who knows for how long but it’s the first in five years. Five. Long. Years. And now that I am in a relationship, I don’t know crap about what I’m doing. I’ve so far pissed this man off so many times I’m surprised we are hitting the three-month mark soon.  I will say he’s not without his own flaws that piss me off but that isn’t the nugget of this point. Here is the list of things I’ve done and some of them you surely shouldn’t do.

• Request the “single” status be removed from his myspace. OK. I know this is juvenile but just let me discuss it in a future post.
• Not being intimate enough when it comes to certain things. I tend to have a guy approach to stuff. I’m not big on fourplay and so what comes off as somewhat pedestrian or not sensitive is really my wanting to cut to the movie and just skip the previews.
• I don’t pat on the back enough. I am a supportive women when it comes to my man but I guess I’m not so good at the validating bit. But should I be? That’s a silly question because I think at times I also need validation. Don’t we all? See. It’s a vicious circle.
• I like to “argue.” To me the best thing in the world for a relationship is making sure the significant other knows when I am not happy with something, or he should tell me when he is not happy with something and in my book that should be an immediate action. that way it doesn’t happen again, an understanding is reached and you don’t sit on your feelings – just ready to explode later. Some call this arguing. I call it discussing.

I’m sure there’s more but you get the point. So much focusing on me has made me miss the bigger picture of what happens when it’s no longer just me. However, if and when I am no longer attached, I will bounce back better knowing that I was more sure of myself now than I ever was before. And that, my friends, is why I don’t regret a thing about my process. And single will always be the one relationship you have to count on because, really, when it comes down to it, if you are alone you don’t have a choice but to count on yourself.