Dating Direct: The Guardian: Working the web Valentine's Day: Be still my beating heart. Mike Anderiesz finds plenty for the
last-minute romantic away from the sleazier side of the internet
You may have already missed the chance to send your Valentine something edible or floral today (unless you hop in a taxi and deliver it yourself) but the web provides plenty of ways to show true digital love, some more inventive than others. Cynics may claim the internet is still obsessed with the sleazier side of sex, but beneath the excess beats a soft and surprisingly romantic heart.Poetry, for instance, seems to be making a comeback as the skill of writing it is slowly forgotten. The...
Dating Direct: Ins and outs of the twenties,
Arts
MORE NEW FILMS: Look elsewhere for a date movie this week, warns Nigel Cliff. Love in Y2K is just not what it is cracked up to be Someone is playing a cruel trick on the nation's lovers. St Valentine's Day is just behind us; the roses stand unwithered on their stems. Yet like a swarm of aphids, along comes a quartet of films about besieged, or abusive, or fatal relationships. And like an over-eager suitor, each has serious pretensions - but none quite lives up to its...
Dating Direct: The Sunday Herald: One in five will look for love online;Popularity of internet da ting agencies surges as surfing for someone special becomes mor e commonplace
Forget blind dates, speed dating and those embarrassing dinner parties organised by matchmaking friends ... within a few years the most common way of finding a partner will be through an internet agency.Dating is the only online service which has had a consistent stream of new subscription sites since 1999. Since January, visits to dating websites have increased by 17%. Experts predict that within five years, one in five single Scots will use online matchmaking services. Now, major...
Dating Direct: The Express: The day he popped the question
His voice echoed round the theatre MELANIE DUNN, 36, from Worcester Park, Surrey, was speechless when partner Gerald, 37, jumped on stage and proposed in the middle of an amateur production of Jack And The Beanstalk. Luckily, she got over her stage fright and said Yes in front of a packed theatre. Melanie, a TV production manager, and Gerald, a management consultant, married last year FINDING myself single at 34 came as quite a shock. I'd always dreamed of meeting someone special...
Dating Direct: The Express: I hadn't had a date since 1978
AS I walked down the aisle, I knew I was making a terrible mistake. I was about to marry a man I didn't love and who would probably never love me. But at 20, I already had a child with my fiance Peter, and after four years together, marriage felt like the next step.I was 16 when I'd met Peter at our local youth club in Hook, Hampshire. He was a year older than me and already had a good job as an accountant in London. Peter was confident and outgoing, and when he...