Catégorie : For Her
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Are you suffering from « online dating addiction »? Here is how you can regain your freedom.
You’ve been frequenting online dating sites for a while now. You know a lot of the available candidates by their first names. You have met most of them without ever finding anyone that you wanted to share more than a few moments with. You know, in your head and somewhere deep in your guts, that…
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Are any of these 10 plagues keeping you from finding love?
1. Your self-esteem is too high: From the time you were born, your mother has been telling you how special you are. And you have believed her. The consequence of this attitude is that nobody is ever good enough for you. If despite your restless searching you have never come across anyone who could measure…
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Single on Valentine’s Day? Don’t let it keep you from celebrating!
Valentine’s Day is coming up in a few days and you do not have a Valentine to celebrate the day with. For weeks now, you have been eyeing the heart-shaped boxes of chocolates and other little cute red gifts lavishly displayed in every shop window, despairing the fact that you are neither going to get…
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6 great ideas to make your Valentine’s Day celebration fun and meaningful
Valentine’s Day is the celebration of your love and appreciation for that special someone in your life. While you can of course go to a store and purchase the traditional roses and chocolates, you could also try to make the day special by thinking of a more personal way of celebrating. Here are 6 ideas…
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Long-distance relationships
What happens if you meet the love of your life and suddenly he or she decides to move so far away that you are able to see each other only rarely? In today’s world, this is not uncommon. Attractive employment or educational opportunities can crop up almost anywhere in the world. There is probably no…
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Intermarriage and Love: What if your beloved is not Jewish?
One of the most difficult decisions you can face as an observant Jewish man or woman is what to do if you fall in love with someone of another faith. Will you choose the heart or the spirit? Love of your partner over love of your God? The question is not only a personal one;…
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Jewish Dating: « Photos do not say anything » says Jose Weber, director of Simantov International, in an interview with Deutschlandfunk
If you have been looking for your soulmate for a while and if your search has led you to online dating sites, you already know it: image is all powerful. One of the first things you are asked to do, when subscribing to most of these sites, is to upload a photograph of yourself which…
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Dating Advice: who pays the bill?
The world of dating is sometimes difficult for Jewish singles to navigate. One of the problems which arises recurrently is: who should pay when you go out on a date? In the past the answer to this question was generally simple, as women did not work or make money and the date was a chance…
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Jewish Dating: is it okay to lie about your age while looking for your beshert?
We live in a youth-obsessed world: television, films and magazines are constantly bombarding us with the images of young and gorgeous people and the tales of their many adventures. The Jewish community is of course not impervious to this phenomenon. Led by the media into thinking that youth equates beauty, fun, energy, fertility and, ultimately,…
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Relationship problem: maintaining your individuality in a relationship
The psychoanalyst Erich Fromm, in one of his writings, points to the paradox of love: « Two beings become one and yet remain two. » However this does not always occur. Indeed, a common relationship problem, which seems to affect both new and old couples, is the loss of one’s individuality. This can happen for several reasons.…