These Readers Need Your Advice!

These readers need advice. Your words can steer them toward the right match! Help a fellow eHarmony Advice member get one step closer to finding love.

These Readers Need Your Advice!
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Let’s face it: it’s a brave new world out.  Traditional male and female roles have gone out the window.   The old dating rules seem obsolete.  And new technology like eHarmony has only added a host of new conundrums to the equation.    

That’s where YOU come in.  By sharing your experiences and opinions with your fellow singles, you can impact someone’s search for love. That’s powerful!  Your virtual support can make a real difference in someone’s life. 

The single men and women below need advice.  Your words could help steer them toward the right match!   Click through and help a fellow eHarmony member get one step closer to finding love.  


Moccic06
in New York writes:    

"He's just gotten out of a 5 year relationship and asked for things to move slowly. How long do I wait to see if he's really ready to be in a relationship again?"

 

   


AmmyM
in Oregon writes: 

"Should I continue to talk to someone that I am not attracted to in hopes that I will become more attracted later?"

 

        


hoNikon
in Ohio asks:  

"Is it normal to talk to more than one match at a time?"

                


Lemon
wonders:  

"I am a little hesitant to talk to my young children about my new dating life and about bringing these men to meet my children.  Any advice?"

 


   


Captain
in Texas writes: 

"I am away for 28 days at a time with only 14 days off.  I am new member to Eharmony and fear that due to my career path I am doomed from the start. Honest feedback wanted."

 

       


Saffron
writes:    

"Do I jump in and initiate first contact, or wait for the man to begin the process?  I know historically women have been coached to be coy."

 

 

    


Leo812
 in California wonders:

"He criticizes my body.  It's to the point that I don't feel comfortable in the bedroom with him. He says I’m being sensitive. Is it me??"

 

       


krm
in Texas asks:

"I have asked a couple of women some questions and its been three weeks, just curious how long I should give them to respond?"

 



soloally1891
writes: 

"My boyfriend has made it VERY clear that he WILL NOT marry again. On the other hand, I am old fashion and marriage to me is important."

 

        


summerktgrl
has questions:


"1) Ladies, do you ever request the initial communication with a match?

2) How long would you expect to communicate with someone prior to meeting?"

 

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I have not ever had a date. I am just wondering why people seem to reject me so fast. It seems like they just look at me and people don't like me. I guess most people are too closed to even think about a date. It has been 2 years now. Just wondering what I should do. All I do is be myself.
- September 05, 2008 12:17 PM

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Be careful of the date who wants to change the color of your hair -to bring out your eyes. To change your wardrobe because these styles and colors are sooo becoming on you. The biggest red flag is that control can be hidden under pretty words- you dry clothes on the wrong temperture, pump gas wrong,you should read the news not watch tv, each time tied to a postive statement about you but the message is clear don't do it again.
If you really loved him or wanted to be with him why not? As far as appearances go, we know men are visual more by nature and now that you are his and he is yours why not dress to please your soul mate? My ex had very different taste than me and I happily wore what she wanted me too but then again I respected her taste. She had a keen eye. To be able to see yourself as another does and to hear there opinion and accept it if it is wise and given lovingly is such a blessing in reality. Go ahead and make me over I'm yours now!

1 CORINTHIANS 7:4 "The wife does not exercise authority over her own body, but her husband does; likewise, also, the husband does not exercise authority over his own body, but his wife does."

As far as hair color I do draw the line as I personally think we should keep whatever color we was born with as it is so much healthier than constantly dyeing it. besides all that treating it leaves it anything but soft and that's what a man will care most about anyways when you both are sleeping together and your eyes are closed. Let it even go grey as long as it is healthy and soft I don't care I ain't in love with your hair but you as my wife. But if you have already been dyeing it whats the big deal. maybe it does bring out your blue eyes. Change my wardrobe too if we can afford it. Lets go shopping together and have some fun picking out what the other thinks looks becoming on one another of course with in certain modesty boundaries. Maybe you do dry clothes on the wrong setting. We guys also know how to do laundry too. This point on clothes temperature can be debated in a loving way to see who is right. I may just prefer to do my own and she can do her own but it is nice when there is a meeting of the minds. You say watch out when it is done with pretty words. Is what you call control under dictator words better? Tell me to do something as my wife in a pretty way or with pretty words and I will do my utmost to please you! Should be vice versa too. Its when it is said in a demeaning way we should be afraid of. Whats so wrong with constructive criticism? There is a few tricks and bits of wisdom to pumping gas correctly. For example you shouldn't go over the automatic shut off point just to round it up. I forgot the reason. Some people get into a relationship and believe they know it all already. We want to grow together and become one, on the same page and team. Don't be so sensitive. Sounds like he had a point on reading the news then watching it on tv. You get more depth and accurateness from reading then the tube. Well the point about not doing it again can be taken 2 ways. I did see that movie sleeping with the enemy and that can really happen so please if you see a man is like that get out asap. But if you both agreed something should change and you say yes I will and then you sneak around and keep doing it around his back that's another story. It reminds me of this woman who never would eat junk food in front of her husband or indulge in gluttony but as soon as he went to sleep she was eating all kinds of junk and now this day she has reaped what she sowed and has all kinds of health problems and way over weight. Just what her husband was trying to prevent. I bet she wish she would of listen to him now.

- September 04, 2008 10:48 PM

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Songryder wrote:
Be careful of the date who wants to change your hair color because your blue eyes would show more. Red flag; does not like your clothes- you are so much prettier in pastels.But the garrison flag is "only one person can wear the pants" -that means the temperture you dry clothes on, the way you pump gas,disregards your taste in movies because "I Know you are just going to love this"- Control is control some men just package it in pretty words
Yep . . . and good looking bodies as well . . . but they get ugly really fast. I should know. I was in one for two years and all the above red flags were there in the beginning but I didn't get it until he screamed at me after I cleaned 3 bathrooms and didn't put the soap bottle in the exact way he had left it, had me wearing clothes that were way too revealing for my age range and embarassed me more then once in public telling me how to eat. . . and the list goes on. The cruelty of it all left me devastated. I'm a pretty laid back person but he took complete advantage of it instead of respecting the who I am. So, set you boundaries and stand by them no matter what he looks like or says. I learned a very hard lesson but I also learned to read men very, very well after that. It's probably why I'm still single but I'd rather be that way then in a relationship that controls how you blink your eyelashes.
This is kinda why I am scared of getting in a relationship because what I think is a little thing that a wife could do she makes it into I am trying to control her or change her. What is so wrong about doing or changing for the one you are going to try and build a life around. It is a 2 way street too. When I was first married and at the breakfast table she got irritated at the way I smacked my mouth having a bowl of cerial with milk. Living alone I never was conscious about that but she was right and I tried to change for her and for manners sake. It was hard I just wish she was a kinder lady and not so bossy as it then would of been easier to take. We all will have to make adjustments to pleae each other. I say if is possible why not especially if you see the wisdome in it. I also say during the dating phase you reveal as much as possible you would like to adjust before marriage and none of this belief I will change them after marriage. A big one with me is I try to change maybe a womans diet if it is harmful to her and I learned that thats a no no too. So I need to find someone who'cares deeply what she puts in her body at the get go.
- September 04, 2008 10:10 PM

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