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Tips for Dating Safely During COVID and After

We want to make sure you stay safe during your online dating experience with Seeking. Keep these tips in mind when you are talking/texting with someone or setting up a Meet & Greet. General Safety Tips for Online Dating Keep your full name private. When talking with someone online, don’t create a username with your first and last name. Just use your first name or create a playful email account with a flirty nickname. Who doesn’t enjoy an air of mystery, while you get comfortable with the other person? Don’t mix online dating with social media. Avoid using photos from …

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You Can Now Send Photos—and GIFs!—With New Picture in Messaging Feature

New Feature! Picture in Messaging

A picture is worth a thousand words, right? If that’s the case, now you can say so much more while chatting on Seeking! That’s because Seeking recently launched its new Picture in Messaging feature, allowing members to add some images to their previously text-heavy conversations. It’s yet another advancement that enhances the user experience, as Seeking constantly strives to make the site more convenient and enjoyable to use. Seeking says the new feature is already being used extensively, which should come as no surprise. We’re becoming more visually inclined each day, and images tend to motivate us. Do a simple …

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Road Trip Tips For a Fabulous Getaway With Your Partner

Road trip tips

We did it! We made it through the cold, wintry months—and 2020, for that matter—and a gorgeous spring season is ahead of us. The weather is turning, the flowers are blooming and the days are getting longer. For many, this is right around the time to start thinking about Spring Break or planning summer vacation getaways. This time last year wasn’t exactly the same case. With coronavirus numbers spiking right around St. Patrick’s Day 2020, we quickly saw the entire world shut down. Beaches closed, restaurants went takeout-only, flights were canceled and entire nations shut their borders to tourists. We …

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6 Great Short Date Ideas For When Your Time Is Limited

Short dates

We often feel like there aren’t enough hours in the day to get everything done. Between commutes spent in heavy traffic, logging hours at the office, hitting the gym or working out to keep ourselves fit and running essential errands for groceries and such, there isn’t an abundance of time left on the clock. Where does one add dating to the mix? Wherever possible, of course! Sure, we occasionally have the luxury of time and can spend full evenings getting flirty with someone new (or keeping the flame lit with someone familiar). But for many elite daters, time can be …

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First Date Tips To Charm Like a Gentleman

Social Distance First Dates at Home

You perfected your profile. You filled it out with wit and personality, hoping your charm would emanate from the webpage. You had a professional photographer take your profile photos. You’ve been focused, signing in daily and searching for potential matches—and being discerning when you had to, of course. You’ve made all the right moves—and then some—and now you’re here: The first date! But, the thing is, the impressing isn’t over! A first impression happens only once, so you need to dazzle on this date—without going too over-the-top, though. While many like to think that the latest wave of feminism cut …

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Improve Your Dating Life in 2021 With These Tips

It’s that time of year again. Gym memberships—well more likely Peloton purchases—have spiked. Sales on planners and other organizational tools have surged. Nicotine gum is gone from your drugstore’s shelves. And the line at your favorite juice shop is getting longer each morning. The unfit are toning up, the scatterbrained are getting organized, smokers are quitting and fast food aficionados are suddenly all about green juice and antioxidants. Yes, it’s New Year’s Resolution season! Defined by Merriam-Webster as a “promise to do something differently in the new year,” New Year’s resolutions often entail bettering one’s self in some way—kicking a …

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Winter Getaways: Where To Go With Your Partner This Season

Winter Getaway

The winter season, for many, means packing up a duffel bag or suitcase and heading out toward some new scenery for a winter getaway! From the ski trips and spa weekends to escaping the cold weather on a tropical vacation, this is the perfect time of year to travel with someone special. Hitting the slopes will be more exhilarating with your partner, a couples massage is always a nice treat and soaking up the sun on the beach is much better when someone is sitting next to you—right? Unfortunately, travel plans of all kinds—holiday travel plans and winter getaways, included—had …

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The Best Holiday Gifts for Your Special Someone

Black Friday is far behind us, which means the holiday shopping season is in full effect. This year that looks somewhat different, as the pandemic has altered how we find the perfect presents for our friends and loved ones. Our favorite department stores are quiet, shopping malls lack the crowds they usually enjoy, and even the mom-and-pop shops are struggling to allow the foot traffic they need. What isn’t slowing down, however, is the internet. Sure, a number of us are used to checking off our Christmas lists with fabulous items found online that our friends and family will enjoy. …

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Six Reasons To Do Cuffing Season

Couple on couch cuffing season

Brr! It’s getting cold outside—right? Well, there are all kinds of ways to keep warm throughout these late fall and following winter months—there’s the hot cocoa, bundling up, cozy pajamas and cranking up the heat in your home. But what about cranking up the heat in your dating life? That’s exactly what “cuffing season” is all about: Finding someone—and not something—to stay cozy and comfy with until the season changes! While the term has been listed on Urban Dictionary since 2011, the phenomenon still is somewhat new for many daters. It still might not be in the Merriam-Webster dictionary, but …

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Relationship Positivity: Talking Dating Perceptions and More with a Professional Sexologist

Relationship Positivity

How we date and the relationships we seek and enjoy today are entirely different than what generations before us experienced. In a modern world that is fast-moving and driven by technology, there are new customs, traditions, expectations and certainly the do’s and don’t that modern daters abide by. And as we discussed in our previous blog post on The Evolution of Dating, women have gained more and more freedoms in their dating lives as social thought evolved and women were beginning to be seen as equals to their male counterparts—all sparked by the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the …

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