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Message Tuesday: Nylons
This post could alternately be titled: The One That Made D Cry at Her Desk, or Maybe Dying Alone Isn’t So Bad, or WHY? JUST, WHY?! We just started chatting yesterday afternoon (about totally normal...
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Trending: Dating Trends
Hello loyal readers! Before I get to my post, just wanted to share a quick social media update: you can now follow StuCu on both Facebook and Twitter! Follow @stucublog As you can see, we currently...
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Pic of the Week: Inspirational Messages
First, a little introduction to OKC’s sad cousin, POF. As far as I can tell from my experience on the site, POF is good for three things: harboring fetishists, providing generic and useless advice...
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OKC Questions: L’s Makers and Breakers
For those of you who don’t have the good fortune to be as familiar with online dating as we are, allow me to enlighten you. One of the things these sites try to do, is to determine how good of a match...
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OKC Questions: S’s Makers and Breakers
Last week L kicked off our three part series by sharing the OKC questions that mattered to her. Now it’s my turn. So without further ado, here are my three picks… 1) The personal hygiene question: In...
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OKC Questions: D’s Makers and Breakers
In the final installment of this series, I reveal three OKC questions that I judge potential dates on. While L and S had questions influenced by their parents, I’m the odd woman out here. Both of my...
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Message Monday: Bonnie and Clyde
Well, as tempting as it is to be the Bonnie to someone’s Clyde: I think I’ll pass as I’m not really into stealing. The only time I can recall stealing something is when I accidentally walked out of a...
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Pic of the Week: Candlelight
Ah… men. Did we create this blog just to have a “legitimate” forum on which we could criticize you? No. We did not. But sometimes you make it so easy. Like this guy who messaged me last week. I know...
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Dating Phenomenon: The Fade Away
Rejection. Is it a dish best served straight up, or in a more subtle form? This debate has been on my mind lately because my last two first dates have followed the exact same pattern: Go on date —>...
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Wastey Date
It’s no surprise that S, D, and I have a rule about what does and does not constitute a safe and appropriate first date activity. Here are some examples of activities I would call safe, good bets for a...
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Message Monday – Arrested Development
The dry spell continues for me, due in large part to the continued influx of creepy sexual messages (stay tuned for details on why I quit POF). But a couple weeks ago I got a message that indicated the...
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2nd date with K: Scenes from an Italian restaurant*
*I actually hate that song, but my brain is fried post holiday weekend and I couldn’t think of a better title. Forgive my laziness! As you’ve probably noticed, so far I’ve only blogged about first...
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3rd date with K: Guess who’s coming to dinner (and watching game of thrones)
After our second date, I got a text from K saying that he’d like to make me dinner. What in the what? This had never happened to me before. I knew he was into cooking… he had mentioned on our first...
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4th date with K: We see a play about fishermen and S writes a dear john email
When we last left our heroine, me, she was being wined, dined, and made to watch a fantasy TV show. Now for the dramatic (actually not at all) conclusion to this dating trilogy: K and I continued to...
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Why D quit POF
My POF days are over. I deleted my profile and account. I had originally joined it because I figured it couldn’t hurt to have a profile up on another dating site. Twice the exposure, twice the...
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Pic of the week: spelunking
This is semi NSFW, so proceed with caution if your boss could be standing behind you. The fact that I even need to say this about someone’s internet dating profile picture should clue you in that it’s...
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Encounters with “nice guys” on OK Cupid
In early 2013, when I was contemplating joining the online dating world, my friend C sent me a link one day to a Tumblr called “NiceGuysofOKCupid.” The point of the site, explained in more detail in...
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LSD: Reddit sensations
It’s slow times over here in singleland. No new dates, no good prospects. Picture an actual tumbleweed rolling across my okc profile and that’s pretttttyyy much the current state of affairs. So what’s...
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search terms – saggy breasts
Like S, my prospects are pretty dim at the moment. Even with the addition of Match. Which is a total mystery to me, because who wouldn’t want to be with a girl who wakes up in the morning screaming...
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I paid $75 for a Match.com subscription and all I got was this rage-filled...
As I may have mentioned once or twice, I’m going through a bit of a dating dry spell at the moment. What typically happens when I tell people this is they immediately instruct me to join Match.com....
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