BOOK REVIEW: Getting Over Mr Right

by Chrissie Manby
I was really looking forward to getting this book-the premise is perfect; a chick lit for today, with a girl getting over being dumped on Facebook by her boyfriend of three years.
It was a fun read, but I felt it just didn’t connect with me enough the way some chick lit books do. [...]

So I’m looking for a 43 year old dim witted Aucklander…

According to a recent study, the happiest and longest marriages are made when three things align:
1. the male is five years older than the female
2. the woman is 27% more intelligent than the male
3. you have the same cultural background.
Guess that’s going to narrow the field a little right? Perhaps I should put it on [...]

Breakfast: Online Dating Tips

I sometimes forget that this website started from my book Eighty Eight Dates. It all seems such a long time ago that I whipped myself into a dating frenzy to research internet dating.
I spoke about this topic on Breakfast with Paul Henry this morning (was lovely to see him again!). It was a short segment [...]

Need to vent? Just Don’t Press Send!

I spend a large amount of time writing. It’s my job after all. It hasn’t always been that way however. When I was at school my teachers despaired at the lack of effort I put into anything written. The problem wasn’t the writing- it was that I hadn’t found anything I was passionate about to [...]

Go on- tell someone you love them

I used to have major avoidance issues. I’d avoid doing anything that didn’t feel good. Like taxes (I’m getting better) and paying bills (again, major improvements) and folding the washing (well…. two out of three ain’t bad right?)
I definitely avoided confrontation. And it was so long between moments of being honest I actually forgot what [...]

BREAKFAST: Romance in the workplace

Well working as a freelancer might mean I’m not in the running for a workplace relationship but I’ve been in a few- and they can be a little like walking through a minefield!
I talked about the topic of Love in the Workplace on Breakfast this morning.
At the end of the clip I mentioned the gossip [...]

How much of your love life is recorded online?

I got sent this awesome video- it’s a four minute long video of a whole relationship documented in photos- some candid, some posed. (And it’s not TRUE but it IS awesome!)

Thrush from Gabriel Bisset-Smith on Vimeo.
I love it, not just because it’s clever, but because it reminds me how much of our life is documented [...]

Should I do Something for Valentines?

One of the things men don’t get about Valentines is that women do like something to happen on it if you’re in a relationship with them. They might say they don’t. But what they are REALLY saying is “Make it heart felt, and fitting to me and something that fits us.” It’s one of those [...]

What Are Your Sticking Points?

A couple of months ago I was having a chat to a friend about her single status. She talked to me about how when she was younger (she’s in her thirties) she had an idealised view of what her perfect match would be, and that meant she pretty much discarded a pile of potential long [...]

WIN ROSES: What is your idea of a romantic date?

Ok so Valentines Day is up and while I know for some that’s just an excuse to either say “Love isn’t a commercial holiday” (and you’re right) or “It’s not for me”, for some it’s a day that people all over the world do something a little romantic
I’ve said before that my idea of real [...]

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