Often times that great date you have been waiting for all week turns out to be a flop.

Jerry Seinfeld, the well-known comedian once said, "Dating is pressure and tension. What is a date but a job interview that lasts all night?" Nowadays, in the modern world there are no clear rules of etiquette when the roles of men and women are changing.

1600 people over 18 were polled in the UK to see what their views are on dating etiquette and most of these British young people were pretty traditional.

Manners are the most important and of course a good sense of humor. Both genders felt that getting inebriated on a first date is out of the question. Men like to have a date that pays attention to them, while women still like when the man pays for dinner — nearly 60% of women said they would feel pretty uncomfortable if they had to pay the bill.

Which is most surprising is that only 13% would stay the night. The older people said they would go further than kissing their date on the cheek. Once again women gave men the upper hand where 40% felt that the man is the one who needs to arrange the next date.

According to experts this survey shows that traditional etiquette is the best way to go, even though there are exceptions - it is much easier just to stick to the few simple rules. It's just a case of "the more things change the more they stay the same."

[Via: Telegraph.co.uk]

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Sarah Larson has been the notorious new girlfriend of George Clooney. In the past she has had some roles on reality shows. She was a contestant on Fear Factor, however she says that if it were the other way around she probably wouldn't date Clooney.

In the June issue of Harper's Bazaar Larson said, "If George had been on a reality show, I don't think I'd have talked to him. She is glad it didn't deter him, "He still wants to date me and I ate a scorpion."

Clooney who is 47, has never publicly introduce someone as being his girlfriend, Larson is the first. Larson is still adjusting to life as the girlfriend of a major celebrity. She is also enjoying the perks of traveling around the world and meeting important people. She says, "I don't get star-struck, but meeting people like the Dalai Lama, I get star-struck."

Larson hasn't been overwhelmed by Clooney's fame, "I see him as a normal person, like anyone else, he just happens to have a well-known face."

The story of their meeting has now spread through the media, she was waitressing in Las Vegas, and her and Clooney started text messaging each other. Their relationship started up when they met again in June 2007. Larson says, "We just started talking. George is funny and sweet, he's good to be around."

[Via: People Magazine]

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This trend was noticed when employees of a certain hotel chain noticed that they were meeting many couples, who had only dated a couple times, taking vacations together.

The people at a luxury Canadian hotel chain decided to look into this trend a little further. The users of the personal ads online at Lavalife were surveyed. 19 percent of women and 27 percent of men said that they would go on holiday with someone after having dated them only for a month.

These people are called "holidaters" and now the hotel chain is creating an "icebreaker" package to cater to these types of daters. These packages are not too romantic, but there are many activities allowing the daters to get to know each other like picnics and ice-skating.

[Via: Budget Travel]

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Anyone who had been involved in a relationship knows it's hard to keep it going for a long time. Nowadays, marriages seem to last shorter than ever. Toi Moore and her husband Gregory Moore (guitarist in the band Earth, Wind and Fire) have clocked over 20 years of marriage, so Toi decided to write a book called Unbreakable on how to keep love lasting for a long time. Here are their ten major tips for making love last, first Toi's, then Gregory's:

communications, trust, love, respect, space

and

money, love, patience, communication, sacrificing.

I know a few elderly couples who've been together for 50 years, so maybe they should write books about making love and relationships last. Oh, wait they're not celebrities, so I guess that doesn't count then.

[Via: InsightNews]

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Date.com, one of the oldest among online dating services, has just signed a deal with ENLASO (translate.com) to have its network of dating sites - Date.com, Matchmaker.com and Amor.com - translated into different languages, for starters into Spanish, German and Portuguese. The company plans to have its sites translated to 18 languages by 2009, to make its services and content available to users from all over the world.

Since its start back in 1997, Date.com has built a community of some 20 million members. They even boast an average of one marriage weekly for couple who've met online on their sites.

"We've had tremendous success with Date.com, Matchmaker.com and Amor.com both in the United States and abroad; translating our suite of sites into other languages enables us to provide our sites to millions of non-English speaking consumers looking for love…" (Meir Strahlberg, Date.com's CEO)

Read their press release here.

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