Dating Perspectives
The Ultimate Shadchan Guide
What is A Shadchan and Why Bother Here’s the simple definition: A Shadchan is a matchmaker that connects a couple so they can date for the purpose of marriage. If you’re reading this, you probably know that already. What you really want to know is how you can leverage...
How Do I Know if He’s (She’s) The One?
I really like him (or her)! How do I know if he’s the one? I don’t do crystal balls, but here’s a reliable way to think the question through.
Shomer Negiah: What Is It and Why It’s My Secret To Dating Clarity
Question I have been in a serious relationship for the past 8 months. Things are going very well, but when I bring up engagement it gets tense and he shuts down. I don’t believe he has commitment issues and believe he does want to marry me. I did not grow up religious...
How to Prepare Your Children for Dating
Question As I watch family members and friends marry off children, I wonder if there’s anything I can do to prepare my children for this complex and often daunting stage of life. What values, ideas, and viewpoints can I instill in them now to better prepare them for...
Finding & Qualifying
The Ultimate Shadchan Guide
What is A Shadchan and Why Bother Here’s the simple definition: A Shadchan is a matchmaker that connects a couple so they can date for the purpose of marriage. If you’re reading this, you probably know that already. What you really want to know is how you can leverage...
Long Distance Shidduch Dating – Am I Living in the Wrong City?
A Reader Asks: I often hear from friends, family, and well-meaning neighbors, that I should consider moving to a larger dating center such as Israel or New York. They believe that my opportunities would be greater there. I’m wondering if this is really necessary...
Shidduch Resume Writing: The Ultimate How To Guide
Almost always, before somebody shows up to your front door for a date they will first see your resume. This is not an issue of first impressions that will be lasting impressions. It’s much more critical than that.
If your resume isn’t well crafted there will be no first date.
Expectations in a Relationship: What is Healthy?
Expectations in a Relationship: Am I Demanding Too Much of My Shidduch Date I’ve been blessed to grow up in a very warm, loving, and healthy home. My parents are unique and special people. They provided the paradigm of marriage that I aspire to emulate. My image of...
Active Dating
How Do I Know if He’s (She’s) The One?
I really like him (or her)! How do I know if he’s the one? I don’t do crystal balls, but here’s a reliable way to think the question through.
Shidduch Resume Writing: The Ultimate How To Guide
Almost always, before somebody shows up to your front door for a date they will first see your resume. This is not an issue of first impressions that will be lasting impressions. It’s much more critical than that.
If your resume isn’t well crafted there will be no first date.
Get From Fantasy to Reality: The 5 Stages of Dating
Fantasy can be such an exciting and beautiful place. It’s a place where all dreams come true. A place where whatever I desire is possible. Nobody to “tell us no”, just “let it go” and “all your dreams will come true” if...you “believe in magic.” Western culture...
10 Tips for a Successful First Date
Question I go out on many first dates and often get turned down. I wish I would at least be given a second chance. Am I doing something wrong? I know first impressions are important, but are they the only thing that matters? What could I be doing to improve my overall...
Engagement
How Do I Know if He’s (She’s) The One?
I really like him (or her)! How do I know if he’s the one? I don’t do crystal balls, but here’s a reliable way to think the question through.
How Do I Know if He’s (She’s) The One?
I really like him (or her)! How do I know if he’s the one? I don’t do crystal balls, but here’s a reliable way to think the question through.
No Engagement Clarity and Feeling Pressure
He's Ready for Engagement, I Have No Clarity. What Do I Do? I’ve been dating a quality guy for the past two months. From my perspective, things are going well. We have a great connection and share life goals. When it comes to engagement though, he is way ahead of me....
The Journey from ‘We’ to ‘I’…When Moving on After a Break Up Seems Impossible
Question I recently broke up with a girl that I had been dating for 6 months. We had so much in common, great chemistry, attraction, respect, shared common goals and values, and were heading towards engagement. Just as I had been planning the perfect proposal, she...
From The Safety of “I” to the Uncertainty of “We”ti
I am often approached by singles who are dedicated to the idea of marriage. When an actual opportunity with great potential arises, however, they begin to panic, worry, and have misgivings, many of which have nothing to do with the man or woman they are dating. I’m so...
Special Circumstances
Zoom Shidduch Dating: Practical Tips to Succeed in Dating During Coronavirus
You actually CAN have a great Shidduch date on Zoom This Coronavirus outbreak has rolled a hand grenade into our daily routine. It’s affected just about every area of life, and especially dating. As it turns out though, as awkward as Zoom shidduch dating is for you,...
I’d Like to Date You But…Dating with Mental Illness
Question For many years I was able to hide my depression and anxiety with the help of a supportive family, medical management, and learned coping strategies. Recently I started dating and feel judged by those choosing not to date me. I am not my disability. I have...
A Flag on the Dating Field: Signs of Abuse in Personal Relationships
Every Jew is created in the image of Hashem, of G-d. With that privilege, comes the expectation and right of every man and woman to be treated with respect, care, sensitivity, compassion and love in the closest and most significant relationship in their life,...
Dating with Disabilities: Is it a Handicap?
Most of us have been set up with someone that was completely not a match, but with whom we shared some random commonality, such as family history, profession, height, or body type. Didn’t it feel impersonal? Didn’t we wish that people would take the time to get to...
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The Ultimate Shadchan Guide
What is A Shadchan and Why Bother Here’s the simple definition: A Shadchan is a matchmaker that connects a couple so they can date for the purpose of marriage. If you’re reading this, you probably know that already. What you really want to know is how you can leverage...
How Do I Know if He’s (She’s) The One?
I really like him (or her)! How do I know if he’s the one? I don’t do crystal balls, but here’s a reliable way to think the question through.
Long Distance Shidduch Dating – Am I Living in the Wrong City?
A Reader Asks: I often hear from friends, family, and well-meaning neighbors, that I should consider moving to a larger dating center such as Israel or New York. They believe that my opportunities would be greater there. I’m wondering if this is really necessary...
Shomer Negiah: What Is It and Why It’s My Secret To Dating Clarity
Question I have been in a serious relationship for the past 8 months. Things are going very well, but when I bring up engagement it gets tense and he shuts down. I don’t believe he has commitment issues and believe he does want to marry me. I did not grow up religious...
Shidduch Resume Writing: The Ultimate How To Guide
Almost always, before somebody shows up to your front door for a date they will first see your resume. This is not an issue of first impressions that will be lasting impressions. It’s much more critical than that.
If your resume isn’t well crafted there will be no first date.
Zoom Shidduch Dating: Practical Tips to Succeed in Dating During Coronavirus
You actually CAN have a great Shidduch date on Zoom This Coronavirus outbreak has rolled a hand grenade into our daily routine. It’s affected just about every area of life, and especially dating. As it turns out though, as awkward as Zoom shidduch dating is for you,...
No Engagement Clarity and Feeling Pressure
He's Ready for Engagement, I Have No Clarity. What Do I Do? I’ve been dating a quality guy for the past two months. From my perspective, things are going well. We have a great connection and share life goals. When it comes to engagement though, he is way ahead of me....
How to Prepare Your Children for Dating
Question As I watch family members and friends marry off children, I wonder if there’s anything I can do to prepare my children for this complex and often daunting stage of life. What values, ideas, and viewpoints can I instill in them now to better prepare them for...
Expectations in a Relationship: What is Healthy?
Expectations in a Relationship: Am I Demanding Too Much of My Shidduch Date I’ve been blessed to grow up in a very warm, loving, and healthy home. My parents are unique and special people. They provided the paradigm of marriage that I aspire to emulate. My image of...
The Beauty Pageant: What’s changed since the times of Achashvarosh?
Question I am a 26 year old capable, vivacious and accomplished woman seeking to find my mate. No matter how much I try to prepare myself internally for marriage, it seems that for society, matchmakers, media, and men, the only thing of value is external beauty. While...
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The Ultimate Shadchan Guide
What is A Shadchan and Why Bother Here’s the simple definition: A Shadchan is a matchmaker that connects a couple so they can date for the purpose of marriage. If you’re reading this, you probably know that already. What you really want to know is how you can leverage...
How Do I Know if He’s (She’s) The One?
I really like him (or her)! How do I know if he’s the one? I don’t do crystal balls, but here’s a reliable way to think the question through.
Long Distance Shidduch Dating – Am I Living in the Wrong City?
A Reader Asks: I often hear from friends, family, and well-meaning neighbors, that I should consider moving to a larger dating center such as Israel or New York. They believe that my opportunities would be greater there. I’m wondering if this is really necessary...
Shomer Negiah: What Is It and Why It’s My Secret To Dating Clarity
Question I have been in a serious relationship for the past 8 months. Things are going very well, but when I bring up engagement it gets tense and he shuts down. I don’t believe he has commitment issues and believe he does want to marry me. I did not grow up religious...