Dating is often referred to as a game. And if you see marriage, children, and happily ever after as the end goal, then that game can feel like a computer game, made up of various different levels. I spent three years on the first level. The first year or so, I ran up against dead end after dead end, struggling to progress to the next level, but desperate to get there. Finally I began to embrace my single status, and properly enjoy the game, making the most of the first level. I explored the various avenues. Read More

In recent weeks, we've explored dating in your thirties, forties and fifties on the blog. Dating blogger Lara Loveless completes the set with an article about the realities of dating in your twenties. Miss Twenty-Nine xxx Entering the Dating World – Dating in Your Twenties Dating in your twenties – a whirlwind of parties, fun, and exciting dates with charming men. Well… not quite. At the beginning of last year, I returned from my gap year, and Facebook stalked my ex-boyfriend. To my horror, I discovered that, despite breaking up with me because he's “not good at relationships”, he now had Read More

This afternoon I stood in the O2, surrounded by 1500 single women. The entire crowd was bouncing, waving their hands in the air, and well and truly rocking out to Pink's song ‘Raise Your Voice'. It was without doubt one of the most unified moments of ‘single London' I've ever felt. These women were single, and proud. An army of women, openly in search of THE guy, but also completely entranced with one particular man. Matt Hussey. A man who captured their attention for six whole hours. No breaks, no pauses. Matt Hussey is Read More

As I write this, I'm a few hours away from Heathrow Airport. It's January 7th already, but for me this feels like the true start to 2015. After six weeks away, I'm about to embark on a new job, and a new relationship. This time last year, I was living in Pangbourne – a sleepy village between Reading and Oxford. I was working in banking, and only just beginning to understand the complications of dating a man who was studying at Sandhurst. Today I will return to a flat in SW London, and to a bed, which I bought myself as Read More

Continuing our series of interviews with the winners of the 2014 UK Dating Awards, we catch up with Matchmaker of the Year, Caroline Brealey of Mutual Attraction … How does it feel to win the Award? Incredible. Amazing. Brilliant. How many adjectives can I squeeze in?! 😉 Before the award ceremony my boyfriend asked how I would feel if I didn't win and after doing the whole ‘it's such an honour to be nominated speech' he said “so you really want to win then?!” He knows me so well. I launched Mutual Attraction with a lot of optimism, no business experience and big Read More