Safety Tips We have successfully connected millions of people. However, there are certain steps that all users should take to ensure that their experiences are positive and secure. Fraud & Scam Awareness: DO NOT SEND MONEY – They are likely scammers. Never share your personal or financial information to people you don’t know. DON’T ever send money to someone you meet online, especially by wire transfer or Western Union. Scammers often insist that people wire money, especially overseas, because it’s virtually impossible to reverse the transaction or trace the money. Don’t wire money to stra ..read more

Spending your first Thanksgiving with your significant other can be intimidating. It’s nerve-wracking if you’re meeting their family for the first time, or if they’re meeting yours. To make your first holiday together a bit easier, here are some homecoming tips: Find out who you’re meeting. If you can get a sense of who’ll be at the table with you, and what they’re interests are, it’ll make conversation easier. And the better you are at holding a conversation with them, the more easily you’ll bond with your partner’s family members. Skip the small talk. If you’re not good at chatting like tha ..read more

Your first post-divorce Thanksgiving can be a particularly heart-wrenching experience. Last year, your family was together around the table, but this year, everything is different. Here’s how you can keep your sanity and survive the holiday season this year. Don’t think about how thing were. Instead, think of how you’d like things to be now, and take steps to make sure that happens. It will be difficult, and you’ll find yourself feeling sad as you think about memories from previous years. This can be painful, but instead of thinking about your pre-divorce Thanksgiving traditions, st ..read more

Most of us love spending Thanksgiving in the company of family and loved ones, enjoying a beautiful meal. But not all of us enjoy eating the same meal again for the next week thanks to all those Thanksgiving leftovers. So, in order to help you make the most of things, we’ve found some of the most mouth-watering recipes to transform your Thanksgiving leftovers: Make the perfect cold morning breakfast. A great way to put your Thanksgiving leftovers to use is start the next day with a nice, warm breakfast. Mix some leftover cranberry sauce in with your oatmeal or with your bagel’s cream che ..read more

Finding the perfect Thanksgiving weekend activities for your friends and family to enjoy can be difficult. How do you find something everyone can enjoy? For some of us, we’re just trying to survive the entire weekend with our annoying uncle or our sister’s toddlers. If you’re looking for a relaxing, enjoyable way to spend your Thanksgiving weekend, we’ve got you covered. Take a hike. There’s no better way to undo the damages of a Thanksgiving binge than good ol’ fashioned exercise! One of our favorite Thanksgiving weekend activities with friends and family is hiking. Even though it might ..read more

When it comes to dating, most of us wish we had someone to tell us exactly what we should be doing. It’s much more helpful to hear tips from the opposite sex about what they want from a date. Well, ladies, you’re in luck. We’ve compiled some of the best dating advice for women from men that we could find. Don’t expect the nicest restaurant. Setting your expectations too high is one of the worst ways to approach a first date. He might take you to a dive bar, just to see how you react. Whatever you do, keep an open mind, and don’t let any expectations you had ruin the actual date. It could ..read more

When dating someone new, we all bring our pasts into the future with us, whether we want to or not. When dating a divorced man, it’s no different. Except, he might have an ex who is still in the picture, he could still be recovering emotionally, or he could have kids. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Going through a divorce can make people more mature, bringing their experiences to new relationships. Keeping an open mind and an understanding heart is essential when dating a divorced man. Here’s some advice on what you can expect as you move forward with him: Be certain you’re dating a ..read more

If you’re single, you’ve probably heard every piece of dating advice imaginable. It seems everyone is an expert, and they’re all just dying to share their wisdom with you in order to rescue from being single. The problem is that, since everyone thinks they know best, a lot of bad dating advice actually gets passed around. Don’t listen to someone’s dating advice just because they’re married or in a relationship. In reality, there’s some dating advice that’s just plain bad. Here are a few examples, so you can know what to ignore: Don’t get your hopes up. One piece of dating advice that eve ..read more

Online dating was supposed to make meeting people easier, but sometimes it feels like it’s just presented a new set of challenges. But, just like dating in person, it’s just a matter of filtering out the good people from the not-so-good people. And believe us, the good ones are out there. Luckily, the bad ones usually reveal themselves pretty early on, so you can avoid them once you know what to look for. In order to better read the red flags, here’s some of the best online dating advice we’ve found for what to be cautious of: There are no clear pictures of them. While it’s always a ..read more

After a break-up, it’s difficult to find a good way to treat your ex. Whether you’re completely moving on with your life or calling to beg for forgiveness, everything we do affects our ex. How you treat your ex also says more about you than you might even realize. The way someone treats the person they like least (or who has hurt them) speaks volumes — and it could even affect your ability to date moving forward. Do you have a “crazy” ex? If you don’t want to talk about your “crazy” ex, that may be because you’re still hurting from it. Even worse, it might mean that you don’t have any valid e ..read more