Women Dating Tips and Advice

Free Currency Converter for Global Business

Dating Expert — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 17:38:18 +0000

Globalization means an open opportunity to expand your business to every part of the world but it also means you have a bigger challenge to keep your business on the competition. Talking about global business environment, we can’t ignore the crucial role of currency exchange. With the fact that every country has its own currency, having accurate information about the currency exchange rate will be important for your business operation.

It is also important to understand that currency exchange rate is very dynamic and the rate is continuously changing following the dynamic currency exchange market. Moreover, there are many factors affecting currency rate that it could change in a matter of second. FreeCurrencyRates.com would be the most trusted reference to help you get the most accurate real time currency exchange rate for various currencies in this world. It uses the most actual currency rate based on the current market position to make sure that you can get the right rate. FreeCurrencyRates.com would make it much easier to find exchange rate between two currencies. It supports almost all currencies not only popular ones.

There’s nothing difficult to use this online currency converter app. Once you log on this portal, you can choose type of currency or country on both side of menu to get the actual exchange rate. You can also browse through the currency directory to learn more about supported currencies. This portal allows you to customize currency converter with particular currencies you use the most. It will make much easier and faster to get the current rate position. FreeCurrencyRates.com also has iPhone app dedicated for those who need accurate currency exchanger while on the go. This app is free and gives access to all features offered by FreeCurrencyRates.com. It can’t be denied that this is the best and most trusted online currency exchanger you can find to support your business on the globalization era.

Setting up Boundaries in Friendship

Dating Expert — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 01:37:43 +0000

Even in a very close friendship, boundaries are still needed to make sure that your friendship is healthy. Without them, friends can feel uncomfortable or even unsafe. Usually, boundaries happen naturally in a friendship. Things such as when to call or hang out can be determined just by spending some time together. Other things, like physical closeness, might need to be communicated in some way. Here are some thoughts on setting boundaries in a friendship.

1. Setting up common boundaries
While different kinds of friendship require specific forms of boundaries, there are some common boundaries that every friend must respect. These boundaries include no physically or emotionally abusive behaviors, no nasty gossips, being gently honest instead of bluntly hurting a friend’s feeling, no backstabbing, and no emotional blackmail.

2. Subtly set the boundaries
Often, giving a verbal list of likes and dislikes can set negative tone between you and your friend. A better option is to subtly give clues to what’s acceptable to you. For example, if you do not like to get a lot of emails, you could simply choose not to respond right away. Take longer time to get back to your friend, and if he or she asks where you have been, you could say something like, “Oh, I usually can’t get to my email more than once every day.” That way, your friend will have the subtle hint followed by a verbal instruction.

3. Enforce the boundaries
After setting the boundaries, make sure that your friends respect them. Remember, many of these boundaries could fall into gray area. For example, you might enjoy constant phonecalls or short messages, while your friend might consider it as clingy. If you have a friend who repeatedly pushes your boundaries, you need to take away one level of subtlety for each “offense.” For example, if you have dropped hints that you do not enjoy daily phone calls, ask them instead if you can call them when you feel like talking. Keep in mind that your friend may not even realize they have crossed a boundary.

Making Friends in a New City: Some Practical Steps

Dating Expert — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 01:29:25 +0000

Moving to a new city can be so much exciting, especially with all the new possibilities that you could explore; feeling new atmosphere, checking out new places such as stores or restaurants, and of course meeting new friends. While making friends are easy for some, others might feel certain difficulties in starting a new friendship in a totally new city.

However, making new friends is not really a rocket science, especially with these practical steps.

1. Turn your solitary activities into group activities
If you have certain hobbies or interests, try to find places that can support your activities, and spend some times there. If you like reading, visit a library or join a book club. If you enjoy sport, exercise at a gym. Volunteering is also a good way to meet new people and interact, while at the same time doing something for a good cause.

2. Let others know you are new in town
“I’m new in town” is a classic phrase, and sure works in many levels. Tell the people you work with or the baristas behind the counter of your favorite coffee place that you are new in town. Make a point of asking for the best place to eat, shop, or see the sights when you are out. When people hear you are new to the area they will usually go out of their way to help you find places to go, which in turn gives you more opportunity to meet potential friends.

3. Be open, be careful
In the end, with any of these activities, be sure to smile and remain open to meeting someone new. It can be difficult to be the new person everywhere you go, but rest assured that will only be the case for a short while. And of course, you still have to be careful. Take a good pick of people that you are going to be close with, and be selective in a nice way.

How to Survive Your First Date

Dating Expert — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 07:52:02 +0000

Whether you are a fiery teenage, a mature woman, or a settled senior, first date could be such a nerve-wrecking dating event at any age. There are uncertainties about what to wear, what to talk about and how to behave, not to mention the expectations that we are looking forward to meet. Before the first date, you wonder whether your date will like you, whether you will like him, and how much dating etiquette has changed since the last time you were out there.

Whatever your age is, if you feel that you need some advices to guide you through your first date, here are some:

1. One purpose of every first date is to decide whether you want a second one. With that in mind, plan a first date that encourages conversation and helps you get to know each other, and avoid activities like movies and plays that leave you sitting silently in the dark.

2. If you plan to have a meal on your first date, make it lunch and combine it with some fun activity so you have more things to talk about while you eat. Dinner sometimes implies more intimacy than you may be ready for on a first date, and having the whole date depend on two near-strangers sitting across from each other and making conversation can create a lot of pressure.

3. Tailor your first date to include a common interest, hobby, or shared value, which may help you establish an immediate connection around something that has meaning for both of you.

4. If you are a senior, and the whole idea of senior dating makes you nervous, consider making your first date a group date with friends, or participating in a group activity such as a wine tasting or charity auction.

5. Be smart, be safe, and have an exit strategy. On most first dates you are going out with someone you do not know well, so stick to public places and tell someone you trust who you are meeting and where you will be. If you start to feel uneasy about the person you are with, just leave.

6. If the person does not turn out to be Prince Charming, so what? You met a new person, practiced your conversation skills, and learned more about what you want (and don’t) in a partner.

When Your Friend Refuses to Make Up

Dating Expert — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 09:26:05 +0000

When your friendship is falling apart, you perhaps would want to end the grudge and get back to your healthy relationship. You are ready to make up, but on other hand, your friend is refusing to do the same. Is your friendship over?

Perhaps no. The friendship might still be able to go on, but you do need to take some extra efforts of resolving issues, or at least coming on to understanding on the cause of conflicts. However, remember that one friend takes longer than the other to heal. Here are some things you can try if your friend initially does not want to make up.

1. Re-examine the friendship and your own actions
When someone that you thought was a good friend refuses to make up, take a step back and examine your past friendship, as well as your own actions. Did you have a history of arguing? Have recent events in your life have changed the course of your friendship? Are you secretly jealous of your friend in some ways? Take a look at your own actions. Specifically, check to see if you have been taking your friend for granted, treating her as you should, or offering the support that she needs.

2. Show your friend how much you care
Sometimes, we cannot assume that a person we care about knows about that; he or she needs to know and hear it. If your friend is pulling away from you and refusing to make up, let her know how much she means to you.

3. Give your friend an open invitation to talk
After you have tried everything, you might, in the end, be forced to step back a little bit. While your friend may take longer to move on from the situation than you, always show that you value your friendship your friendship. Leave the lines of communication open to where she can initiate a conversation when she is ready. Some things to say are, “I want you to know I am here when you are ready to talk about this.” Or, “I can see you’re angry and want to work on where we went wrong. I’ll be here when you’re ready to talk again. I care about working this out.”

Fixing a Bad Relationship

Dating Expert — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:10:24 +0000

When two people are committing themselves into a relationship, they cannot expect that everything will work so well. A bad relationship is not really unavoidable, but if you are stuck in one, you could at least try to work your way to a healthier relationship, one step at a time. Healing your relationship means that you will have to review how you have contributed to the problem, and what you need to to do fix it. Essentially, fixing a bad relationship means reconnecting with yourself.

1. Determine what is going on
Knowing full well about what have caused a bad relationship can help you a great deal; it helps you diagnosing the problems, creating troubleshoot, and finally fixing it.

2. Accept responsibility
Once you have found out about the problems, look for where your responsibilities stand out. A bad relationship is born, fed and nurtured into becoming what they are. Therefore, in order to fix a bad relationship, you must first look at how you have contributed to the problem as well as accept responsibility for your actions, intentional or otherwise.

3. Erase self-sabotaging behaviors
Self-sabotaging and destructive behaviors are everyone’s, but in order to fix a bad relationship, we need to identify and erase them.

4. Fix the relationship
After identifying the problems and destructive behaviors, it is time to move on to the most difficult step. Change the destructive behaviors with positive, self-supporting, and healthy ones.

5. Reconnect with your partner
Finally it is time to reconnect with your partner, and maybe even fall in love again. The insight you’ve gained will now be put to work to help both of you get what you need and want in your relationship. This last step definitely is not easy, and it takes a considerable amount of time. But if you truly do want a healthy relationship with your partner, this last step is essential to ensuring success.

How to Face Former Friend at Work

Dating Expert — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 23:40:13 +0000

You have fallen out with this certain friend, and you never contact each other after that perhaps not-so-well break up. Suddenly, out of the blue, you find out that your former friend has been hired at the same company with you. Everything must be awkward if you were in that position, since you have to balance between your professional and personal relationships.

Handling a former friend who has become your co-worker must not be easy, especially if the break up was not so pleasant. If you and your friend broke out healthily, face him or her without dredging up the past. But, if the situation was otherwise, there are some tips that you can practice if someday you were stuck in that position.

1. Say hello to your former friend and welcome him or her to the company. Remain cordial; you do not have to be best friends anymore, but at least you can make sure that there will be any bad terms whatsoever.
2. If your break up was quite nasty, or if your past problem was never resolved, ask your friend to lunch or try to get a few minutes of uninterrupted time when you can talk. This is not the time to make up with your friend, but simply to let them know you do not want things to get weird at work.
3. Tell your friend something like, “I just wanted to let you know I have no hard feelings about the past and wanted to welcome you to XYZ Company,” or, “I’m sorry about what transpired in the past, but let’s remain professional since we’ll be working together. Feel free to count on me if you need help or have any questions here.”
4. Keep some personal distance from your friend, and treat him or her like you treat any other co-workers. Do not assume the worst, and remain professional. Chances are they want to just focus on work as much as you do.

How to Get Couple Friends

Dating Expert — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 09:35:03 +0000

If you are a couple, having some couple friends can give supportive elements for your own love life, as well as much more fun. However, making a couple friends to hang out together is not always easy, especially if the dynamic between both of you do not always work when it comes to find new friends. Check out some of these strategies to get you and your mate a couple friends.

1. Attend events as a couple
Try to attend events or activities with your couple, even those that you usually attend alone. This helps show people that you like to do things together, which will give them a nudge for asking you along on a couple’s night out. It will also help prompt new conversations with people in the group about bringing their own significant other along next time. The events can be volunteering jobs, garage sale, bazaar, barbeque party, or sport events.

2. Divide roles and conquer
Sometimes, in a relationship, one person is more active than the other. If you are the one who usually act as a ‘social director,’ try to divide your role and invite your mate to become more active. You san say something like, “it’d be nice if we could go to the opening of that restaurant with another couple,” or “we should invite your cousin and his wife over for a game night.”

3. Revive an old friendship
Friendships change as your life changes sometimes, and that may mean someone you have lost touch with could come back in your life as part of a couple. To get a feel for what your old friends are doing, check out Facebook or ask people who may still be in touch with them. Then, invite them to dinner as a couple to catch up.

4. Ask an acquaintance over for a dinner
Is there someone in your life you see once in a while at various events, who is not exactly a friend, but who you know socially? If that person is attached, ask them over to dinner as a couple. Or, suggest meeting out for dinner after the event. Even if your acquaintance is not someone you can see being best friends with, it does not mean the four of you will not bond when you get together.

When your Friend is Pulling Away: Problematic or Unreasonable?

Dating Expert — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 09:58:08 +0000

Friendship among people can be very different and dynamic. It does not only bring happiness and fulfillment, but also problems. When some think that their friendship is solid, another maybe feel that their friends are pulling away. Whenever a friend is excluding you, do not be panic; calm down and try to differentiate whether it is a problem or you just being unreasonable.

Examining your expectations is important to do in certain stages of friendship. People do not always get invited to certain events every single time, and when they don’t, it certainly isn’t anything personal. Your friends may have felt that you were too busy or would not enjoy the activity. Plus, you might want to ask whether you have been too clingy (i.e. expecting someone to invite you everywhere just because you know each other, becoming angry when your friend is talking to another acquaintance, or assuming that when you meet someone new means that the person is instantly your best friend).

You must also see the real reasons behind your friend’s behavior. Perhaps your friend is involving in certain events or tradition that certain people in a group are used to doing together. Or, perhaps you have ever said ‘no’ in the past when your friend asked you to do something together, and he or she presumed that you would not enjoy similar activities anymore. A group dynamic can also cause exclusion, such as when new members come on board. Again, you can talk about it with your friends but they may be too embarrassed or ignorant of their behavior to make a change.

Finally, perhaps the real reason is because there is really a problem between you and your friend. Some people are not good at expressing their feelings, and behave in a childish manner rather than dealing with a situation directly. If this is the case, you can try discussing it with your friend. If your pal denies there is a problem or refuses to work it out, you may need to accept that they have moved on from you.

If, however, you are being excluded from really good friends, this is a clear message that there is a problem with the friendship. Try discussing it with your friends. If they do not acknowledge your feelings, accept the fact that your friendship may have run its course. Saying goodbye to friends is never easy, but you deserve respect and to be treated well.

When Your Friend is Hiding a Secret

Dating Expert — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 01:20:24 +0000

Keeping secrets is everybody’s right, but what if your friend is hiding a secret that threatens to break you apart? Since a good friendship is based on mutual trust, a secret-keeper friend could someday jeopardize your friendship, and that can be caused by many things. Perhaps you feel slightly hurt because your friend is hiding something. Perhaps his or her secret is not a good one. Perhaps he or she feels some kind of resentment toward you.

When certain words, or even gossips, spread about your friend’s possible secret, big chance that the first thing you would feel is hurt (“why am I the one who knew about it lastly? After all, I’m her friend!”). When this happens, be patient and do not take it personally. There are many things that can cause someone to hesitate in sharing his or secret, such as:

1. The secret you have heard is not accurate.
2. The secret is embarrassing or related to something destructive such as crime or having an affair.
3. Your friend does not realize that someone else has known about his or her secret.
4. Your friend does not really trust you about certain secrets.

If you find out that number 4 point is the issue, it is time to do a reflection about your friendship. Have you given your friend a reason to doubt you? If you have a habit of gossiping about your friend, then you are probably going to be the last person they will trust with a secret. The only way to build up trust again is to prove that you have what it takes to be a great friend.

However, if the issue is the point number 2, it is time to use your position as a good friend. You can approach the subject with them gently. Be patient when you confront your friend and make sure that your motivation centers around kindness rather than trying to “call them out” on their secret. Start by telling them you care about them and are concerned, and go from there. If your friend is open to talking about things, great. If not, you might need to back off until they are ready. If your friend’s secret is not destructive, leave it to them to bring it up. Again, their reasons for hiding it may have nothing to do with you.