When it comes to online dating, how you approach your online dating profile, the online dating app, and other members can have a significant impact on whether you find yourself in a long-term relationship or you find yourself getting no responses.
We’ve been working with Catholics since 1997 and have seen what works and what doesn’t work. The online dating tips are designed to help you make the most of your experience at Catholic singles (or on any dating app).
Once upon a time the only way to meet someone was over a beer at the bar, while out on an evening walk after dinner, or at a singles group in the basement of your Church. But times have changed! With the rise of technology and the increasing use of social media, online dating has […]
You finally have this online dating thing down. You log into your dating apps with ease and navigate potential prospects like a pro. But one day you realize that as many people as you’re coming in contact with, not many of them have a lot in common with you. How can you meet like-minded people? […]
I actually never had to read the classic F. Scott Fitzgerald novel The Great Gatsby during high school. Believe it or not, I even made it through the entirety of my undergraduate and graduate college career without ever having to read it. But it turns out that the new dating trend that people are calling “Gatsbying” […]
When it comes to initiating a discussion in online dating, there is a fine line between what works and what fails miserably. Unfortunately, too many people use what fails miserably. Studies show that the average response rate for messages on dating sites sits somewhere between 1% and 10%, depending on the website and how well […]
A University of Wisconsin study estimated that 81% of people with an online dating profile lie about things like their height, weight, or age in their profile. The University of Wisconsin study isn’t the only study that’s revealed people’s tendency to lie in their profiles. A recent study examined the online dating profiles of over 1,000 online dating profiles. […]
Dating experts seem to enjoy coming up with unique and fitting names for every common phenomenon that happens in modern relationships. It’s too bad that ‘being ghosted’ is one the most popularly discussed dating trends. In case you’re late to the dating-trend-name game, ghosting is a term for when one of the two dating people […]
I have a good friend who graduated from a conservative Catholic college with a degree in theology. She immediately began working in ministry positions — youth ministry, women’s ministry, and even at a crisis pregnancy center. Teaching people about chastity, Catholic dating, and how the Church views sex was a huge part of her life. […]
We all know that online dating has worked for plenty of people. Even if we don’t know several couples in real life (I happen to know of at least three personally), we see the success stories all over the home page of any dating app we might decide to take a look at, Catholic Singles […]
It’s probably true that most of us considered an age gap of more than a couple years to be a big deal when we were in our teens. But once we grow up and reach mutual adulthood, a few more years’ age difference isn’t so significant anymore. Or is it? Some people in the dating […]
This is an add-on to a much larger post which can be found here. A first or second date should be for getting to know one another. But let’s face it—that’s not going to happen if the two of you, or even one of you, are feeling super-awkward. What you really need are some good […]
