Dating Single or Hoping to Date
You Have Lots of Company

Are you among the "Dating Single" crowd? No matter the reason -- coming out of a relationship, divorced, widowed, just looking for fun or companionship? This article might be of some help to you.  

Did you know . . . 

• “People whose clothes smell of pine are perceived to be more successful, intelligent, sociable, sanitary and attractive than people whose clothes smell of lemon, onion or smoke.” 
• “On sight, men view taller women as more intelligent, affluent, and ambitious. They view shorter women as more nurturing and considerate.”

If you are to believe these observations made by someone (unknown), the more you  look and smell like a pine tree, the better your chances are for getting a date.  Of course, this represents only set of stats. Other statistics are touted by the services for dating, single mingling, serious relationships, intimate but casual romps, and marriage. 

These stats are promising: according to one dating singles article, online services alone account for helping over 7 million men and women a year, worldwide!!

But, if you are not impressed and are you are still reluctant about the entire online flirting, courting, dating, single-searching, meeting, or getting involved scenes, you might be put at ease when you learn that this same article reports that in America alone 48% of adult men and 53% of adult women have registered with at least one dating service or agency.

Would you imagine these numbers of people were all tall, brilliant, gorgeous, and smelled like pine?  LOL.  Doubtful.  Personally, I don’t know of anyone who wears pine cologne. But come to think of it, I do know some who live in the woodlands, work in the woods, or hike a lot. 

But, take heart. Even if you don’t work, live, or hike among the trees, you can still enjoy a dating service.  If you’re among those ready for a serious, committed love relationship, or wanting to begin with very non-committal, casual dating to “see where that goes,” you can meet many others of the same mindset, of the same singleness of purpose or purposes of marriage. 

It's an old adage that there's someone for everyone. Obviously, you don’t have to be good looking, rich, or tall, or have the greatest I.Q. You can have a 350 big block, a hot off the floor Ferrari, or a cutting edge, politically correct electric auto. You can be as tall as Tom Cruise or as fat as Ichabod Crane . . . But, believe me, there's probably someone out there looking  for just your type.

For, as William Adams, ship builder, diplomat, advisor, navigator and astronomer, once said, "You can have anything you want," he encouraged, "if you want it badly enough.”