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The Best Dating Advice, Dating Help and Dating Tips Available Online

Looking for the best dating advice, dating help and dating tips available online? Dear Dating Coach is the place where you can bring your most important dating questions, seek help with a dating problem or find other dating related information. We review all the questions that are sent to us and choose the most frequently asked and/or relevant ones to answer that month.

We receive so many great inquires and realize the often urgent need that readers have for feedback and help. Therefore, we urge you to come to this page anytime to see if any of the dating advice, dating help or dating tips we have already made available online can help you with your important issues. We maintain an archive of past columns on this page, which you can browse through anytime you have a need and are looking for quick feedback.

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The following are our past columns. A simple click will bring you the best dating advice, dating help and dating tips that are available online.

Dear Dating Coach Columns

Self growth & Self Improvement
I'm Available, Attractive and Out There: What am I Doing Wrong? 10-2003
Does Trust Mean Never Getting Hurt or Having To Say You Are Sorry? 1-2004
Being Single in a "Coupled" World 3-2005
Parents as Role Models for Love 11-2008
Relationship Challenges
Relocating For Love: How/When is this Decision Made? 8-2003
It may not be Meant to be 5-2004
Meeting His/Her family for the First Time 12-2004
Is Sharing Your Partner Ever a Good Idea? 4-2005
She Loves Me - She Loves Me Not 10-2005
Trust is a Relationship Cornerstone 1-2006
The Meaning of "Taking a Break" 12-2006
Are His Attractions All Skin Deep? 8-2009
In love with a sexual addict 10-2010
In love with a "bad girl" 1-2011
Hinting about wanting to end relationship 3-2011
Am I mixed up with Mr. Really Wrong? 4-2011
To love, honor and live with obesity 9-2011
The Reluctant Stepboyfriend 3-2012
Help With Dating
Where Do You Meet Ms. Right? 4-2003
So Where DO You Meet Mr Right? 4-2003
He's Interested and I'm Not; and Vice Versa 5-2003
More on communicating Interest 6-2003
Communicating Interest vs Coming On Too Strong 6-2003
How Do You Know When You Have Met "The One?" 12-2003
He Pays, She Pays- A New Dating Norm? 7-2004
The Serial Dater 8-2005
Always the girl friend, Never the Girlfriend 5-2006
Dating by the Rules 9-2006
Phobic About Bad Dates 11-2006
Never Been Kissed 7-2007
In Search of the Real Thing 1-2008
Am I Wasting My Time With a FWB Relationship? 1-2009
Tired of Feeling like Every Woman's Brother 9-2009
Tired of Always Settling 10-2009
Interested in (possibly) someone else's FWB 6-2011
Is it OK to date more than one man at a time? 8-2011
Cramming for that first date 1-2012
An older but not necessarily wiser dater 9-2012
Soul mates or Something else
Risking friendship For Love 1-2005
The Vacation-less Relationship 10-2007
Roommates With benefits or More 12-2007
Is It Real Interest Or Nostalgia? 4-2008
Friends or More? 7-2009
The Pursuing-Distancing Relationship Dynamic 10-2011
Down and Confused About Being Dumped 1-2013
Online Dating
Are Online "Dates" Really Dating? 3-2004
Chemistry Has Several Elements 10-2004
How, When and What Do I Share about My Past? 6-2005
The Challenges of meeting online 4-2006
Separated But Not Single 6-2006
The "How We Met" Cover Story 10-2006
The Art of Online Courtship 2-2007
The Downside to Online Dating 4-2007
Problems with communication
She's Interested and I'm Not; and Vice Versa 5-2003
New Relationship Communication 11-2004
When Dr Jekyl Becomes Mr. Hyde 5-2005
The Reluctant Boyfriend 11-2005
"Letting Him Down Easily" Requires Honesty 2-2006
A Problem With Technology or a Mixed Message? 5-2008
Attraction and chemistry
Knowing this is "The One" vs Settling 7-2003
A Good Example of the Wrong Chemistry 2-2004
Do the clothes make the Man? 7-2005
Help For the Flirting Challenged 12-2005
Falling For the Man She Sees Every Day 7-2006
Falling in Love too Fast? 1-2007
I Know He Said, "Just Friends," But... 5-2007
Do Women Need to Look Up to Men? 9-2007
Just Not That Into Her? 2-2008
Chemistry and Online dating 7-2008
Missing the Right Chemical Connection 4-2009
Too Ugly to Date? 11-2010
Holiday help for Singles
Thanksgiving is a Holiday for Everyone 11-2003
Compatibility Issues
Does Opposite Mean Incompatible? 8-2003
Haunted by HER Past Sexual Encounters 4-2004
Nice Guy vs Bad Boy- What Does She Want? 6-2004
Is it Religious Incompatibility or Something Else? 8-2004
Are long Distance Relationships doomed from the start? 2-2005
Handling red Flags in Dating 3-2006
Lonely Boomer Guy Seeks Compatible (younger) Women 8-2007
A Place in His Heart- or Holding a Place for Someone Else? 11-2007
Is it Me, Is it Her, or is it Us? 3-2008
Right Chemistry But Wrong Religion? 6-2008
Relationship Cold feet 9-2010
Grieving Lost Love
Letting a Past Love Go 9-2003
How do You Know What to Believe? 9-2004
Getting Closure When It's Over 9-2005
Being "Nice" Holds No Guarantees 9-2008
When love vanishes 7-2010

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Consum-mate.com
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