Online Dating for Women: The Basics: Dating for Women, #1
By Cassie Leigh
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Online dating is not easy. And if you're new to it it can seem overwhelming. Which sites should you use? What should you say in your profile? Should you respond to every single message you receive? What kind of guys do you need to watch out for? This book covers all of that and more.
So if you're new to online dating or just not happy with your results, check it out.
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Online Dating for Women - Cassie Leigh
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Online Dating for Women: The Basics
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Contents
Introduction
Disclaimer: Target Audience
What Is Your Goal?
Picking a Site or App: Step One – Free or Paid?
Picking a Site or App: Step Two – Privacy
Picking a Site or App: Step Three – Communication Preferences
Picking a Site or App: Step Four – Level of Control
An Aside: People Lie
Picking a Site or App: Step Five – Specialty Site or Popular Site?
Picking a Site or App: Step Six – How Many To Start With?
Picking a Site or App: Step Seven – Can You Turn It Off?
Time To Take A Breather And Summarize
Picking a User Name
The Difference Between Sexy and Attractive
Picking Your Profile Photos
Be A Woman Not a Professional
Filling Out Your Profile: Part One – What to Say
Filling Out Your Profile: Part Two – Categorizing Yourself
Time To Communicate
What If You Don't Get Responses
You Have Messages To Reply To. What Now?
Red Flags To Watch Out For
Checking for Compatibility
Should You Message Guys First?
Communicating Away From the Site
Shutting A Match Down
When to Meet In Person
Be Safe
Sex
When To Have Sex
The First Date
Afterword
About the Author
Also by Cassie Leigh
Copyright
Introduction
So you've decided to give online dating a try. Maybe a few of your friends found their spouses that way, or you're tired of the bar scene, or you're recently out of a long-term relationship and wouldn't even know where to go to find the bar scene, or maybe you want to tell your mom that you're making some sort of effort to meet someone without actually having to meet them.
Whatever the reason, you want to give this online dating thing a try. And, because we all hate rejection, you'd like to do it the right way.
Well, good on ya. I admire your starry-eyed optimism and resolve.
Unfortunately, you don't even know where to begin. What site should you choose? What should you say in your profile? Who should you avoid?
Hopefully this book will help you with all of that and more. Can you stumble through without it? Absolutely. You can get started online dating without spending a dime. Join a free site today and you'll be hearing from men within the hour.
But if you want to actually stick with it long enough to find what you're looking for, it's probably a good idea to think a few things through first.
I can't promise success—no one can—but I can at least help give you a good solid start.
Online dating requires healthy amounts of persistence, optimism, and an ability to shrug off the crazy shit your fellow humans will throw at you.
(Ah, the stories I could tell …)
And luck. But you know the saying, the harder you work, the more luck you'll see. So let's get started and give you every advantage we can.
Disclaimer: Target Audience
Before we go any further, I want to point out that this book is geared towards women. Like it or not, women's and men's online dating experiences are very different, and it turns out it's a lot simpler to focus on one group or the other rather than trying to go back and forth.
Also, in this context, we're talking about heterosexual women. I, quite frankly, don't have enough insight into the LGBT experience to do it justice from a dating advice perspective. While some of the chapters will be useful to anyone entering into online dating, I think it may fall apart after that. A woman dating a woman is not going to have the same issues as a woman dating a man.
And this book is based on my experience online dating in the United States. If your country has a robust online dating culture, like the U.S., then what I say here will likely be true for your country as well. But having tried online dating in a smaller country with a less developed online dating culture, I can say that my experience there was very, very different than my experience in the U.S. So keep that in mind, too.
What Is Your Goal?
The first thing you have to do before anything else is determine why you're doing this, because your reasons for online dating are going to drive every other choice you make. This is just for you. Tell your friends or mom or grandma whatever you want, but be honest with yourself. Because what you want will drive everything from your user name to the site you use to who you choose to meet.
Are you looking for lasting love or just trying to find someone to hook up with for a little fun?
If you're just looking for a good time, this whole online dating thing is going to be much, much simpler for you than it is for the person trying to find the one
.
It will. People are people and there are plenty of men online looking for sex. If that's what you want too, and you're willing to be open about it, you'll find it. Now, I'm not saying you're going to end up with some hottie. If you want good looks AND sex, well, that's a much harder goal. Especially if you aren't amazingly good-looking yourself.
But if you just want sex with someone around your age and willing, it's pretty easy. Be honest about it and find the sites or apps that are known for that sort of thing.
If you want lifelong happiness with