This time of year the pre-holiday Madness can easily turn to Loneliness!  I don’t like this time of year & usually apply an antidote by retreating & renewing my energies for the coming new year.  This works for me and many people think ME mad!  Despite that fact many people around me complain about this time of year & so I decided to put together a list of remedies to help prevent the Holiday Madness from turning to Loneliness.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell. George Bernard Shaw

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The credit crunch has everyone reassessing their lives & changing their behavior (which can definitely be a positive thing) & not spending as much as they have in the past.  After writing my post last week in which I negatively commented on Dr Pepper Schwartz’s article encouraging people to get a partner to weather the ‘tough economic times’, I thought a little more on the subject.  This week I also read an interesting Reuter’s article titled ‘Falling stock markets spur searches for love online’ and I quote them below:

As stock markets across the globe have plummeted, more people have opted to try their luck looking for love online as a distraction from financial woes — and to save themselves money, according to dating Web sites.

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Today I am back to reviewing the online dating sites with the focus on Perfectmatch.com’s Duet.  Their claims on the website are as per below:

“Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it, said the Philosopher.” James Stephens

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As a relief & change from the onslaught of online dating site relationship assessment reviews that I have been blogging about for the last couple of months, this post on the gender gap has been triggered by a few online articles I recently read.
Back in the days when men were hunters and chest beaters and women spent their whole lives worrying about pregnancy or dying in childbirth, they often had to be taken against their will. Men complained that women were cold, unresponsive, frigid. They wanted their women wanton.

They wanted their women wild. Now women were finally learning to be wanton and wild — and what happened? The men wilted. Erica Jong

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