If you'd like to meet new friends and find romance you've come to the right place. I've tried to list lots of useful dating articles and advice on finding true love online.

We've added a dating glossary to help you decode some of the abbreviations you'll see online and offer you great practical advice on dating.

If you've dated online or found the love or your life on an internet dating agency then please get in touch.

We'd love to publish your happy ever after!

Finding true love can be hard these days. We all live such insulated lives from each - travelling by car isolates us from each other. If you travel on public transport in some parts of the country you'll find that you may as well be a in a sealed compartment as no one talks to each other. People who attempt to talk on the tube are usually frowned at enough until they stop! Buy why? Humans are very social creatures and crave human attention.

Because we don't work where we live - it is more the exception these days - we don't mix with people from our own areas as much. This means you might not know your neighbours. If you live in a block of flats then ask yourself how many of your neighbours you know.

Do you go to local pubs and bars? Mixing socially in your home location is something not many people do now, the call of the big town centres is huge.

All of this means that there is less and less chance to meet people who you might want to go out with socially. This seriously reduces the opportunities to meet potential new friends.

We've reviewed these dating sites to help you make new friends online. We've tried to offer advice and hints on dating throughout the site and are happy to look at your suggestions for new articles.

A light hearted look at translating the small ads!

What the ads says	What they mean
40-ish	50+
Adventurer	Has had more partners than you ever will
Affectionate	Possessive
Artist	Unreliable
Average looking	You figure this one out
Beautiful	Pathological liar
Commitment-minded	Pick out curtains, now!
Communication important	Just try to get a word in edgewise
Contagious Smile	Bring your penicillin
Educated	College dropout
Emotionally Secure	Medicated
Employed	Has part-time job stuffing envelopes at home
Enjoys art and opera	Snob
Enjoys Nature	Bring your own granola
Exotic Beauty	Would frighten a Martian
Feminist	A Ball buster
Financially Secure	One paycheck from the street
Free spirit	Substance abuser
Friendship first	Trying to live down reputation as slut
Fun	Annoying
Gentle	Comatose
Good Listener	Hard to pull a word from her
Humorous	Caustic
Intuitive	Your opinion doesn't count
In Transition	Needs new sugar-daddy to pay the bills
Light drinker	Lush
Looks younger	If viewed from far away in bad light
Loves Travel	If you're paying
Loves Animals	Cat lady
Mature	Will not let you treat her like a farm animal in bed, like last boyfriend did
New-Age	All body hair, all the time
Non-traditional	Ex-husband lives in the basement
Old-fashioned	Lights out, missionary position only
Open-minded	Desperate
Outgoing	Loud
Passionate	Loud
Poet	Depressive Schizophrenic
Professional	Bitch
Redhead	Shops on the Clairol aisle
Reliable	Frumpy
Reubenesque	You can figure this one out
Romantic	Looks better by candle light
Self-employed	Jobless
Smart	Insipid
Special	Rode the small schoolbus w/ tinted windows
Spiritual	Involved with a cult
Stable	Boring
Tall, thin	Anorexic
Tan	Wrinkled
Weight proportional to height	You can figure this one out as well
Wants Soulmate	One step away from stalking
Widow	Nagged first husband to death
Writer	Pompous
Young at heart	Body past it