Dating Agencies in the UK :: men and women meeting your partner in the UK - click here to visit the Dating Directory now Friday 3 July 2009

This is how I found love...

I was feeling a bit sorry for myself and I needed a hug. My boyfriend had cleared out of our flat leaving me with the washing up and the phone bill, and I suddenly found myself alone. My best friends, Kate and Jo had got fellas of their own and I felt like a spare part when we went out together - a real gooseberry.

It's tough because you think you're going to be with Mr Right forever. Then he goes, the house is empty, and our gang of friends we used to hang out with are either paired off or feel embarrassed about seeing us on our own. I didn't realise how big the flat was going to feel when I was on my own at night.

The really tricky thing is that your friends take pity on you and try and pair you off with their friends, their boyfriends friends, and any other spare part they know of who's not attached to somebody. But the thing is, there's a reason those people are out there unattached. I know the sort of man I want to be with. Warm, affectionate, good sense of humour, strong, confident, loving, friendly. I don't care if he's a professional or a builder, a civil servant or a clerk at a bank. The important thing is that we share interests and are good friends as well as lovers.

When you find yourself on the dating scene again after a few years off it's hard to know where to start. At first I tried going clubbing, getting drunk in bars, pubs, and I even tried church groups, but that wasn't a good place to get drunk! In some ways that was really helpful though because I enjoyed going out with a few girlfriends and meeting new people.

Then one of my girlfriends dared me to try a dating agency and the first place I went, completely by guesswork - and I got lucky the first time. Instead of Internet geeks I found that I was able to get in touch with some really great blokes, some were younger and some were older men and I felt like I had a really good choice. I felt safe too because I could keep my identity secret until I felt confident that I was dealing with someone who was reliable. They had lots of people in my area who were local to me as well, so I didn't have to travel to find the right person. I also found some people who do the same job I do, which is a shop assistant, and found we had a lot in common.

There was such a variety. Bankers, stockbrokers, company directors, builders, second hand car dealers, plumbers, shop owners. People interested in cinema and house music and skiing, or a blockbuster film with a curry or chips, and people who liked a night in with a beer and the football or tennis.

I swapped emails with a few people then I met Jason. We hit it off immediately and I thought he was a really great bloke. He's got a really nice bum too! We emailed at first but soon moved on to phone calls. We talked for hours and hours on the phone. Then we got together for the first time and it was love at first sight. That was a bit nerve racking but it went much better than I expected, and I didn't make a fool of myself for once! We've been dating for three months now and things are great!

Keely

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Whether you are single, divorced, widowed or separated, a single parent or just bored with your current relationship online dating websites are the way to help you find a new partner, whether it is for friendship and good times, a brief and wild affair, a naughty liaison or fling, or a long term relationship leading to marriage. You might be a man looking for a woman, a woman looking for a man, a man looking for a man, or a woman looking for a woman. You might even be a happy married swinging couple looking for a naughty party and kinky sex!

You can find thousands of men and women of all ages, in their late teens, twenties, thirties, fourties, fifties and sixties. Young or old, middle aged or mature. You might want a lover who has a good sense of humour (GSOH) or a good salary and their own home. Or you might want to be a free agent or have help bringing up your family as a working single mum or dad. When you sign up for free you get to list your own features and the features you look for in your ideal partner, such as tall dark and handsome, blond and blue eyed, vivacious redhead, brunette, long hair or short hair, petite, statuesque, fat and thin, tall or short, randy or reserved.

Do you have activities or interests in common. Do you like the same books, pubs, music, films, food, restaurants, cinema, theatre, clubs and clubbing, romantic walks, games like bridge, golf football, tennis, dance and fitness, jazz and classical music, pop and rock? Do you like laying in bed on a Saturday morning, or get up first thing and enjoy the day.

Online dating websites bring together partners in these towns villages and cities in the UK:

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Malvern Hills Manchester Mansfield Medway Melton Mendip Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Merton Mid Bedfordshire Mid Devon Mid Suffolk Mid Sussex Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlothian Milton Keynes Mole Valley Monmouthshire Moray Moyle Neath and Port Talbot New Forest Newark and Sherwood Newcastle-under-Lyme Newcastle-upon-Tyne Newham Newport Newry and Mourne Newtownabbey Norfolk North Ayrshire North Cornwall North Devon North Dorset North Down North East Counties North East Derbyshire North East Lincolnshire North Hertfordshire North Kesteven North Lanarkshire North Lincolnshire North Norfolk North Shropshire North Somerset North Tyneside North Warwickshire North West Counties North West Leicestershire North Wiltshire North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton and Bedworth Oadby and Wigston Oldham Omagh Orkney Islands Oswestry Oxford Oxfordshire Pembrokeshire Pendle Penwith Perth and Kinross Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Powys Preston Purbeck Reading Redbridge Redcar and Cleveland Redditch Reigate and Banstead Renfrewshire Restormel Rhondda-Cynon-Taff Ribble Valley Richmond Richmondshire Rochdale Rochford Rossendale Rother Rotherham Rugby Runnymede Rushcliffe Rushmoor Rutland Ryedale Salford Salisbury Sandwell Scarborough Scottish Borders Sedgefield Sedgemoor Sefton Selby Sevenoaks Sheffield Shepway Shetland Islands Shopshire Shrewsbury and Atcham Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Ayrshire South Bedfordshire South Bucks South Cambridgeshire

South Central Counties South Derbyshire South East Counties South Gloucestershire South Hams South Holland South Kesteven South Lakeland South Lanarkshire South Norfolk South Northamptonshire South Oxfordshire South Ribble South Shropshire South Somerset South Staffordshire South Tyneside South West Counties Southampton Southend Southwark Spelthorne St Albans St Edmundsbury St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Staffordshire Moorlands Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Strabane Stratford on Avon Stroud Suffolk Suffolk Coastal Sunderland Surrey Surrey Heath Sutton Swale Swansea Swindon Tameside Tamworth Tandridge Taunton Deane Teesdale Teignbridge Telford and Wrekin Tendring Test Valley Tewkesbury Thanet The Highland Three Rivers Thurrock Tonbridge and Malling Torbay Torfaen Torridge Tower Hamlets Trafford Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear Tynedale Uttlesford Vale of Glamorgan Vale of White Horse Vale Royal Wakefield Walsall Waltham Forest Wandsworth Wansbeck Warickshire Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Waveney Waverley Wealden Wear Valley Wellingborough Wells Welwyn Hatfield West Berkshire West Devon West Dorset West Dunbartonshire West Lancashire West Lindsey West Lothian West Midlands West Midlands Counties West Oxfordshire West Somerset West Sussex West Wiltshire Westminster Weymouth and Portland Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Windsor and Maidenhead Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wrexham Wychavon Wycombe Wyre Wyre Forest York Yorkshire

Using an online dating service can be a daunting prospect for first timers. Other people are very quick to tell you horror stories. However remember that most of the people telling these tales have never tried online dating in the UK themselves. If you take things slowly, hang on to your sense of humour, keep your outlook positive and keep some common sense basic personal safety issues in mind there should be no problems. Just as in face to face dating people who appear confident, happy and free of personal hang ups are more attractive to others. One of the advantages of meeting people over the internet is that you get a clean slate. You get to decide how you come across. Do bear in mind that bending the truth or misleading prospective dates is the ultimate turn off for a prospective date. If you say you don't smoke and then turn up to a date with teeth as yellow as a bears and reeking clothes your prospective partner will know that not only do you smoke but you lie as well. Not the best start for a relationship.

Problem solver:

1. Not getting a broad range of prospective dates with an online dating service:

When you put in your ideal date requirements be realistic. Do you really only want to meet company directors with a yearly salary of £100,000 plus. Well yes so do I - but in the real world there are some very nice people you would be missing out on meeting if you narrow the search that far. Think realistically about the area you are looking for. Could you include a neighbouring town? Are you close to a city ? Would it be that bad to go out with someone who has different coloured eyes. Keep on trying. Your special someone is out there somewhere just waiting for you.

2. Feeling worried about trying online dating:

The world has changed - welcome to the 21st centaury. One of the delights about online adult dating in the UK is that you no longer have to hang out in sleazy nightclubs doing the cattle market routine. Now you can sit in the comfort of your own home and pick and choose who you want to talk to. You can post up your photo and details and wait for people to find you, or you can look at the lists of people who match your own important selection criteria and see if anyone looks promising. Contact is discreet by email through your dating provider. You do not have to give out any private contact details until you want to. It is advisable not to let any prospective dates have your home contact details, full name and address until you are quite sure that you want to proceed with the relationship. Online dating gives you the ability to do that in a way that personal ads in the paper do not. Signing up and taking the first step to finding new friends and relationships is easy, just follow the instructions.

3. First date safety precautions:

Let common sense be your guide. Be just as cautious as you would if you met someone in a bar for the first time. Meet somewhere public, and in full view of other people. Make sure you know where the exits are and plan an escape if you feel worried or threatened before you meet up. Tell a friend where you are going, who you are meeting and what time you expect to be back. (Don't forget to phone and let them know if your dream date has turned up and you have changed your plans or they will worry). Double dating sounds old fashioned but has the advantage of safety in numbers. Just pretend you are a teenager again and have fun. Most importantly, take your time. Do not rush the first date or the pace of the relationship as you get to know your date better. Do not give out any personal information such as contact numbers, home addresses until you are sure everything is fine.

4. Overcoming first date nerves:

Both men and women can feel painfully shy about meeting new people. Getting the nerve up to ask someone out can feel like an impossibility. It is much easier with online dating. Most dating services have the facility for you to let prospective online dates know you are interested in meeting them then they can let you know if they would be interested in getting to know you better. There is none of the face to face embarrassment of bars, and lifts. There is just not so much risk of rejection. If you have got to know someone via email before you meet them you already know what interests you share and it is much easier to get talking.

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