I just had a life changing thing happen to me. I am a non smoker who started dating a heavy smoker. It was a very big mistake. I have had a very hard time dealing with this for some reason and feel it has changed me forever. The whole ordeal has left me depressed and devistated.

I have always been against smoking as I saw what my Dad went through, he was a chain smoker for 33 years until he was set free when he (lucky for him) got very sick for 10 days and was hospitalized; when he left the hospital he thought he better not light another up as he had gone this far and made it! He has never gone back.

I never smoked and always found women who smoked a turn off. From the stench of Tabacco on their skin, hair and clothes, wrinkled skin, yellow fingernails, deep hoarse voice and sickening “smokers” cough, I was repulsed.

Over the years I became complacient as I was trying to meet people and date. I guess I let this dealbreaker slip! Over the past few years I briefly dated a few women who smoked and it was not too bad to deal with. Then last year I met a woman online who I liked but found out the day I met her that she smoked. I tried to over look it as we seemed to hit it off pretty well. Well since I only saw her once a week, I found out several weeks later how much of an addict she was. She was a chain smoker who smoked about 3 packs a day. As I was getting to know her and I started develop feelings for her I felt the need to mention to her how bad it was that she smoked that much. Of course I knew that she did this years before she met me and I had no right to preach and make someone do something they did not want to do. But her habit was off the charts! I imagine if she smoked half a pack a day it would of been a lot easier to deal with, but if every time we went outside and at every 30 min incrament she had to light up, you can see how this was a problem for a non smoker dating her! Every place we would go eat the first thing she would ask is if there was outside seating so she could smoke. She could not even sit through a 2 hour movie without her needing a “smoke break” And to hear her constant cough and hear her deep voice all reafirmed that this was taking a huge toll on her health.

I should of walked at that point, but I foolishly stayed. I loved her and could not walk away. And as a fellow human being I wanted to help her save her life. 3 packs a day for 20 years, with a chronic cough, deep voice… If only just a friend, I would be concerned, let alone someone who is in love with her. Not understanding the compulsive fascination with smoking I hit the Internet to educate myself. After a short while I was FLOORED with what I learned. I knew Nicotine was addictive, but not like this! More than Heroine, Crack or Alchohol? ~90% of people who try it get hooked? A typical smoker will die ~15 years earlier than normal? (If they are lucky) If you don’t die from Lung Cancer, you will from numerous other diseases if not from a breathing disorder (COPD, Enphesema) AMAZING…

After months of discussions and disagreements she finally agreed to quit. But when she was ready. Could be 6 months or 6 years! Well you know what that means, it’s Junky thinking at it’s best. I told her that from what I read, that unless something bad happened to her she would most likey never quit. (seeing a loved one die due to smoking, spittin up blood, etc) I know it was wrong but I did push. I tried telling her what she was doing, bought books, printed out materials for her to read. I just could not sit and watch her do this to herself.

She then finally decided to try to quit on Chantix and it lasted 2 months (boy were the side effects horrific! Those alone killed our relationship), but with 5 relapses during that time and with her weaning herself off the meds, the inevitable happened. She is back hooked on smoking. She tried to quit a few times since then (cold turkey) but kept going back. A few short weeks and the addiction is in full force. Now she wants to try to lose some of the weight she gained before she tries to quit again. She tells me that she finally realizes that she needs to quit and she wants to do it, but that she needs to do it for herself and not for me or others. I agree with this 100%, but can she really do it? Do years or decades need to pass before she is finally ready? I don’t know.

I am simply repulsed with this addiction. Seeing her frantically needing a cigarette every ~30 minutes is amazing. I do not think she will ever quit smoking any time soon… Something really bad has to happen for her to even have a chance. Sad but a fact.

As far as for me, I just can’t deal with this anymore. For some reason I can’t stand to be around her anymore or even talk to her on the phone when I can hear her light up and smoke! I wish I could just get over this somehow and let her deal with this on her own. Not sure if I can do this…

Lesson learned: Non Smokers should never date a Smoker! (Unless you don’t care that they are commiting suicide and will keep your concerns to yourself or you are just looking for a short term/fling) But if Long Term is the case, why even bother being with someone like this? I just don’t get it.

Think smokers are sexy? Think again.

In one of the first columns I wrote four years ago I stated that being a cigarette smoker lowered a single person’s Dating Quotient more than any other factor. I guess it’s OK to plagiarize myself, so I will paraphrase two statements that I wrote in 2005.

I repeat that the absolute hardest person to match in the singles’ marketplace is someone who smokes cigarettes on a regular basis, every day. Moreover, if that person identifies himself as a pack a day (or more) smoker, the resulting stigma is somewhat equivalent to being at least 100 pounds overweight or, even worse, being a Yankees fan looking for love in the bleachers at Fenway Park.

Yet many people continue to smoke. Today adult cigarette smokers in the dating world tend to fall into two categories. The first group consists of single men and women in their 20s who (like many people) started smoking to look cool and grown up as teenagers and have been unable to break the habit.

The second group consists of divorced adults who also started smoking in their adolescence and eventually did quit. But owing to the stress surrounding their divorce, fell off the non-smoking wagon.

The purpose of this column is not to preach to smokers that they should quit to improve their chances of meeting someone. Although just for the heck of it, I suggest that anyone who belongs to online dating service do the following.

Complete a profile in which you state that you are a non-smoker. Then after a while change your profile to read that you are a moderate to heavy smoker. The difference both in the number and quantity of your matches will amaze you.

But this column is not aimed at cigarette smokers. Rather it is aimed at people who have started to date or who are considering dating someone who is a cigarette smoker.

I have one question for you. Are you nuts? What are you thinking? (OK that is two questions.)

If you are looking to meet a partner with whom you can have a long-term relationship, you should be aware that most studies indicate that cigarette smoking will reduce one’s life expectancy anywhere from an average of 12 to 15 years! (If you doubt that statement because you have an uncle who is 95 and has smoked for 80 years, just Google, as I did, “life expectancy of smokers versus nonsmokers.”)

That doesn’t count those years when you would have to be a full-time caregiver to a partner suffering from emphysema, lung cancer, or any of the other smoking-related ailments.

Or perhaps you are looking to meet someone with whom you can start a family. I suggest you research studies by the American Council on Science and Health or the Centers for Disease Control. If you are a man, such studies show that “Women who smoke cigarettes are three times likelier than nonsmoking women to have difficulty conceiving; and the higher the average number of cigarettes a woman of reproductive age smokes, the smaller her chances are of becoming pregnant.”

Moreover, these studies also show that “Of the approximately 140,000 cases of miscarriage per year in the United States, about 19,000 have been attributed to cigarette smoking.”

If you are a woman, you should be aware of studies that indicate “evidence has increasingly suggested that cigarette smoking adversely affects the male reproductive system as well. Cigarette smoking damages sperm, affects hormone concentrations in men, and reduces blood flow to the penis. This reduction in blood flow can result in erectile dysfunction, or impotence.”

But let’s say that you are an admittedly shallow man just looking for a hot gal to “hook up with” for a while. Putting aside the obvious and distasteful odor of cigarettes that permeates one’s skin, breath and clothing, studies have also shown that smoking discolors teeth and lessens the skin’s elasticity, which results in increased cellulite accumulation.

The same is true in the case of men who smoke. Remember the old Marlboro Man commercials that purported that cigarette smoking brings out a manly, rugged, macho appearance?

Research shows that of the nine men who predominantly appeared over the years in these commercials, at least three died of lung cancer, including Wayne McLaren, a professional rodeo rider who succumbed at the ripe old age of 51. Just before he died, a withered McLaren appeared in a television ad in a hospital bed with tubes sticking out of him.

Yet many movies depict cigarette smoking even today as looking cool and hip. (We can forgive period pieces like “Mad Men” and the recently released “Shutter Island” in which cigarette smoking appears in almost every scene.)

The Centers for Disease Control has stated that “smoking in the movies is the most powerful pro-tobacco influence on kids today.”

Yet with all the anti-smoking health evidence, I know that some of you still walk into a bar, spot a man or woman holding a cigarette and think he or she looks sexy.

Before you approach that person, I suggest you close your eyes for a minute and picture that same person in a few years with yellow teeth and wheezing after a half mile stroll on the beach.

Then look around for someone else.

Steve Penner was the owner of the Boston-based dating service LunchDates for nearly 23 years and interviewed and listened to feedback from thousands of singles from all over New England. He welcomes comments and feedback at pennerst@hotmail.com . Penner’s book, “The Truth about Dating Revealed; How to Realize and Raise Your Dating Quotient,” is available at local bookstores and through his Web site www.thetruthaboutdating.com , where he also blogs about dating and relationships and pop culture. He also coaches singles all over New England.

The Internet has opened great opportunities for meeting single people who want to find their own or spouse, or friend. Dating sites in every country of the world, it gives the opportunity to get acquainted with a man are thousands of miles away. You can even learn online and see each other in a web camera. On such sites, usually requires Become a Member and filling your profile.

Online dating is now been widely accepted as a valid, convenient and fun way of meeting like-minded people throughout the country. In fact using dating sites have found that meeting people online is in reality more convenient and comfortable to meeting others through ‘normal’ offline channels such as bars and parties. As long as the same standard dating precautions are followed, dating sites members actually feel more at ease getting to know each other in this new social scene.

Dating site provides a comfortable, safe and fun environment for meeting others in your area from the comfort and safety of your home or workplace.

Dating site is easy to use and provide all the facilities to advertise yourself, search and locate potential partners, send messages to friends and potential partners and get involved in the 100000+ Dating community with events, live chat and message boards. You can remain anonymous within dating sites using our own messaging and chat facilities for as long as you wish or until you decide to meet, phone or exchange emails.

Best of all, all of these basic facilities are FREE!

Dating sites provides standard and silver membership for free, or if you are more serious about finding a friend or partner, to really take advantage of the services dating sites can provide you can increase the features below by upgrading your account at any stage for as little small $ for three months to a paid Gold Membership .

Dating sites provides a free internal email system. Completely seperate from your own email address members can safely contact you and be contacted in the safety zone of dating site. Complete with a contact list so you can keep track of members you are interested in talking with and a blocking feature to prevent members from contacting you in the future.

The email service comes with Inbox and Outbox as well as a contact screen.

Once you configure your advertisement you receive a free listing in the site search system, where other members can search and contact you. At any stage adding or removing yourself from the search is a tick box away.

Dating sites allows members to list people matching their criteria and you to optionally display your ad.

This highly advanced feature of dating sites (not at all) lets all members control how they wish to use dating site, with four settings (Adverage, Conservative, Adult and Custom) you can easily control blocking rude pictures, swear words, and prevent people from contacting you.

Allows members to personalise  experience for them, without limiting other members.

Dating sites provides an advanced photo processing system that allows you to upload and resize your photos. Once uploaded you can use your photos in your advert, restrict them to your friends or keep them only for sending to members via site email. Standard Members can store two photos, Silver members can store four and Gold members can store 40.

Dating sites members can upload their own photos and restrict them to specific members for privacy.

If you’re serious about finding that special friend or partner you need an Gold Membership on Dating sites.

While dating sites membership is free, Gold Membership dramatically increases your profile and visibility on Dating sites, making sure you are noticed and taken more seriously by other dating sites members, while the additional features allow you to more easily find and keep track of members you are particularly interested in.

Gold Membership is completely affordable at about $15 for a one month trial gold membership.

How do I become a Gold member?

First you must become a member of Dating sites which is completely free, we recommend you have a look around the free services then when you are ready return to the Gold membership page and upgrade yourself, if you use a credit card it is instant.

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Gold Member listings in Search Results come first and are highlighted to stand out amongst the non-Gold Members

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Gold member profiles show you how many members have viewed your profile, and can have up to 20 photos Gold Member Star and highlighting

If you don’t already have a free dating site account, we recommend you Join Now and have a look around the site.

Over the years web dating has become a very popular online destination for arranging for dates. The personals section allows for postings that are for “strictly platonic”, “dating/romance”, and “casual encounters”.

Much web dating sites is the leading classifieds service in any medium. The site receives over 2 million new job listings each month, making it one of the top job boards in the world. The 23 largest US Cities listed on the Craigslist home page collectively receive more than 300,000 postings per day just in the “for sale” and “housing”.

Often web dating sites is a centralized network of online communities featuring free online classified advertisements, with sections devoted to jobs, housing, personals, for sale, services, community, gigs, and discussion forums. See More web dating sites Stuff for Sell on Our Channel.

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Dating a millionaire will require a different perspective. If you are not a millionaire yourself, you must learn the proper etiquette of dating in a millionaire’s world. Keep in mind that not all millionaires are the same. Many millionaires have different approaches to life and may surprise you as to where they might hang out.

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Online chats reveal similarities. There may be a trait about you that brings out a side of a millionaire that is untapped because of his current surroundings. Remain open-minded, but be yourself with proper etiquette and venue-appropriate attire.

In your online profile, describe yourself without fabricating the truth. Reveal aspects of your personality and likes and dislikes without scaring away your potential mate. If you are a flirty person, reveal this side of your personality without being silly or coming on too strong. Be genuine, kind and personable. Learn how to properly write a profile to attract the man you are seeking. Words can paint a visual picture of what you are like on a date.

Post a current picture of yourself. Men like to know who they are dating now. Some women post photographs of what they once looked like. This is not fair to the man who is trying to get to know the real you. If you are not happy with your appearance, perhaps you may want to address these issues rather than deceiving people on a website.

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Throughout history younger ladies have been dating older men. In many societies this type of relationship has always been considered normal, a man in his forties or fifties married to a young 20 year old girl. The opposite however has never been looked at favourably. Seldom has dating older women been accepted by society, but times are changing and it is becoming a very common relationship.

Mature dating has always been around and in the open. Our TV screens have forever shown high profile male celebrities together with their younger wives, take Rod Stewart, Michael Douglas and Warren Beatty as examples. These types of relationships have been accepted and have hardly ever raised an eyebrow. The same however cannot be said about such relationships as Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher, Madonna and Guy Ritchie, Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins, whose affairs have created a storm. There is however a definite growing trend where younger men are hooking up with older ladies, but what is behind this change?

There are many different reasons why mature singles are seeing younger males and females. Some older men feel more youthful by being with women of a much lesser age, while younger ladies feel that dating older men provides a more carrying, responsible and attentive aspect. The same can be said about mature women who feel and act younger when together with a man who is younger, while younger males are more likely to accept them as such and further enjoy and appreciate their experience, loving, carrying and confident ways.

When looking at mature dating, age should always be considered as just a number and not a primary defining factor. Great relationships are based on more characteristics than just age. Honesty, compatibility, interests, love and respect are only some of the few important issues that must be considered.

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The Tao of Badass was written by Joshua Pellicer. Joshua is featured on a variety of television programs and hosting his own satellite radio show on dating tips and how to attract females. Pellicer is a regular kind of guy that has done intensive research on the internet to find tips on how to attract females for mature dating. He was then inspired to consolidate all the best tips to create powerful video’s and dating tip strategies all package up in “The Tao of Badass”.

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Whether single or in a relationship, dating can be a wonderful, exciting, intimidating, and sometimes bizarre event. The stress of just figuring out what to wear can send you over the edge. Then there are all the other details. Who is paying? Where do we go? Do we show affection? How do I flirt? Or more importantly, how do we just survive those crippling embarrassing moments.

Maybe you are like me and awkward moments never seem to end. If so, here are some fun tips to help your dates go a little smoother than mine:

Dance.

Dating is like a dance.

For the guys: Learn to take the lead. Initiate. Ask a girl out and make a plan. One of my worse first dates I ever had was getting into a car with a guy and him saying, “So, what do you want to do?” We ended up driving around the city for 45 minutes never finding a place to eat. It was horrible. Although I like to share my input in the date, I really want the man to show some initiative early in the relationship. It shows me the guy cares and is interested in me enough to think through the date. For the girls: Learn to also receive. Accept his compliments. And acknowledge his efforts. Guys need our affirmation, too. So make sure you are appreciative of their time and care. Let them open the doors for you. And don’t try to dominate. It is a beautiful gift when we allow men to pursue us. Be Creative

“Dinner and a movie night” again!? The same boring dates can get pretty lame after a while. So get creative. Go to the zoo, the symphony, or play minature golf. One of my favorite dates was carving pumpkins for Halloween in my boyfriends mom’s kitchen . . . Your date doesn’t have to even be expensive: Go sleding in the winter. Play in the leaves in the park. Having some fun activities keeps the time moving and conversation flowing.

Good conversation is the key to a great date. There is nothing worse than when there is an awkward silence or when one person is controlling the conversation. And for the gentleman, (let me give you a hint): women like to talk about themselves. It’s a known fact! So get to know her: ask about her interests, what she likes, and who she is. This makes us feel desired and cared for. Women, return with a similar interest in the guy. Great communication is the key to a successful date.

<< Top Secret Advice and Tips>> Before the date, spend some time thinking of some questions or ideas, conversations starters in case you get nervous. (Write bullet points out with a few ideas if that helps you) It may sound dorky, but it will ease your anxitey. Think of topics like what happened at school, sports, funny stories from your week, questions about music, your faith, favorite subjects, etc. (I used to prep like this before sales meetings when I had to converse with new people I didn’t know. It really helped.) With a little mental prep time, you can walk into the date feeling confident you will have a few stories and questions to move conversation along.

The key to a happy dating relationship is focusing on the friendship. Guys: don’t make jokes or focus on physical aspects with the girls (that’s a big turn off). Girls: don’t start imagining your children with them after the second date either (you will scare them away). The key is to trust in God and focus on the friendship as the center piece before the romantic.

Don’t share too much. Don’t talk about your ex-boyfriend or girlfriend or your weird uncle who is in jail on the first date. I have had that happen, too. Bad news. Just remember to take your time to unveil the beauty of the relationship slowly.

Turn off your cell phone!

There’s nothing more unattractive then having a date text or pick up calls during a date. (Unless your grandmother is in the hospital or it’s some emergency, it can wait!)

As we all know not everything goes perfect on a date, but if you are perfectly YOU that is all your date can ask for. Don’t try to put on a front or something you “think” you should be. Because the person with you is not trying to date an “idea” or image of you . . . They are trying to date the true YOU.

So Ladies: Don’t be afraid to eat more than a salad at dinner if you are hungry . . . Men: don’t be afraid to be show you actually like that chick-flick. It makes you that much more endearing.

Be patient with the dating process, and don’t swear the small stuff. If something goes wrong, spinach gets stuck in your teeth, roll with it. Dating is all about the adventure. So jump in, ask Life Teen and me allot of questions, and enjoy what God has in store!