Anyone who’s had a modicum of life experience will have been acquainted with the struggle of an uncomfortable dinner date with a girlfriend’s parents, a silent dinner with co-workers, or the awkward silences of a first date. All this could have been avoided if only they had mastered the art of small talk.

This Is How To Make Small Talk Work Big Wonders For You

Once again, science has come to help us tackle one of the hardest – albeit common – issues of our everyday lives: making conversation with people we’re not comfortable around. This time, Harvard Business School doctoral student Karen Huang and her research team made it their business to analyze over 300 online and face-to-face interactions between people in the process of getting to know each other, in a study aptly named “It Doesn’t Hurt to Ask: Question-asking Increases Liking”. read more

Over the years, Romanticism has taught us that there is someone out there who will be the perfect yin to our yang, the light to our darkness, the missing part of our lives that will come to make us complete. However, in reality, romantic love is a whole different story.

How Romanticism Shaped Our Views On Romantic Love

The ideology of Romanticism emerged in Europe in the mid-18th century, expressed by poets, artists, and philosophers, and it has since taken over the world, powerfully (yet very quietly) determining the ending of all Hollywood rom-coms, or how a Chinese woman will be proposed to and an Argentinian guy will bring his date roses. However, as with all prevailing ideologies, it has quite a few pitfalls. read more

Thank Zuckerberg for social media. The guy made it possible to maintain contact with our most loved ones and flirt our brains out with new ladies all at once. But with great fun comes great responsibility, to tweak a little with the well-known quote. Ladies can instantly go off a guy when they notice one of the following social media mistakes.

The Social Media Mistakes That Can Totally Wreck Your Love Life

You may not realize it, but your Facebook, Twitter or any other social media accounts can reveal a hell of a lot about you. So much, actually, that they can put a lady off you for good if you’re not careful. These are some of the most serious social media mistakes guys make. read more

In every game there are certain rules not only to regulate it but also to make it more interesting. Every now and then, however, amendments are made to these rules making the game more up-to-date and relevant. For the most pleasurable and efficient dating game, don’t get caught unaware of the new rules of dating.

How Many Of These New Rules Of Dating Do You Know?

Times change, we change and so does the dating scene. This is how the dating game has evolved, with all the brand new rules explained.

IRL dating VS Online and mobile dating

While in the past we had to be physically present to meet someone and take them out on a date, according to the new rules of dating there is no need to anymore. With so many dating apps and sites like AnastasiaDate, spoiling us for choice by hosting a seemingly endless number of potential partners and helping save time and energy, you get to meet girls from the comfort of your home and chat with them for as long as your (and their) heart desires. read more