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This month is the two year anniversary of our matching on eHarmony. On our wedding day last November, we eagerly shared our eHarmony story with all of our family and guests. At every opportunity, we praised the matching service for promoting healthy life-long marriage relationships. To the skeptics of online dating, we explained that eHarmony is unique in that the matching service doesn't promote the "hook-up" culture. According to the company's mission statement, their goal is to "help couples achieve stronger, healthier and happier marriages." We were impressed with eHarmony's online questionnaire and its ability to identify the character and...

So you’re a swinging single and you’ve had a one-night stand. What’s the etiquette for establishing boundaries, calling the day after and getting out without hurting feelings? We have everything you need to know here. WWhile most of us are looking for that special someone to spend our lives with, th single life dictates that sometimes the opportunity for companionship present itself in the form of a one-night stand. While a one-time roll in the hay isn’t exactl emotionally fulfilling, sex in any form can be relaxing, enjoyable, and fun So maybe it’s closing time and you haven’t found Mr....

THE world of Internet dating can be a cold, unforgiving place, particularly when it comes to the fight for customers. Chemistry.com, an online dating service, implies that its rival is out of touch with mainstream America in a new campaign. The online dating service Chemistry.com plans to unleash a new campaign that seeks to depict its older and larger competitor, eHarmony.com, as out of touch with mainstream American values. The ads, which will appear in weekly newspapers and magazines starting Monday, attack eHarmony for refusing to match people of the same gender and for the evangelical Christian beliefs of its...

eHarmony allows clients to discriminate on the race of potential mates. Even though it's only acting on the wishes of its clients, matching services that discriminate by race may violate a statute dating back to the Civil War that prohibits race discrimination in contracting. Think about it. eHarmony is a for-profit company that takes $50 from black clients and refuses to treat them the same (match them with the same people) as some white clients. A restauraunt would be in a lot of trouble if it refused to seat Hispanic customers in a section where customers stated a preference to...

I'm suing gayHarmony for discrimination.  That's right. Because without having checked, I'm certain there isn't a single homosexual site or publication that offers what I'm looking for: A heterosexual pro-life Christian who likes long walks on the beach and wants to help fight unequal justice mandated in the speech-restricting "hate crimes" bill. Those bigoted heterophobes. Before you call the thought police, I don't really think the homosexual publications should be forced to cater to me. But unfortunately, that tolerance is not reciprocated. Lesbian Linda Carlson of San Francisco is suing eHarmony because she can't find a date. They don't offer...

LAST WEEK, a lesbian filed suit against eHarmony.com because the online dating service does not fix up homosexual couples. It is ugly to watch how a group that has been asking straight Americans for tolerance and understanding can turn on a dime, as members seek to punish and shut down those with heterodox opinions. In the Bay Area, it is no secret. Here, tolerance is a one-way street. Equal rights for some mean fewer rights for others. In February, after the breakup of a 10-year relationship, San Mateo County resident Linda Carlson signed on to eHarmony. As her San Francisco...

Last week, a lesbian filed suit against eHarmony.com because the online dating service does not fix up homosexual couples. It is ugly to watch how a group that has been asking straight Americans for tolerance and understanding can turn on a dime, as members seek to punish and shut down those with heterodox opinions. In the Bay Area, it is no secret. Here, tolerance is a one-way street. Equal rights for some mean fewer rights for others. In February, after the breakup of a 10-year relationship, San Mateo County resident Linda Carlson signed on to eHarmony. As her San Francisco...

Luigi is living the American dream. He’s finally saved up enough money to come to America — the land of freedom and opportunity — to pursue his lifelong goal of owning and operating his own pizzeria. Based on his grandmother’s old family recipe, his pizza pie quickly becomes known as the best in town. Bruce is hungry. As he strolls down the boulevard, he decides he’s got a taste for Chinese food. Bruce walks past three Chinese restaurants and goes into Luigi’s. Bruce has seen too many episodes of The Sopranos, so he doesn’t like Italians. “I’ll have an order...

Luigi is living the American dream. He’s finally saved up enough money to come to America — the land of freedom and opportunity — to pursue his lifelong goal of owning and operating his own pizzeria. Based on his grandmother’s old family recipe, his pizza pie quickly becomes known as the best in town. Bruce is hungry. As he strolls down the boulevard, he decides he’s got a taste for Chinese food. Bruce walks past three Chinese restaurants and goes into Luigi’s. Bruce has seen too many episodes of The Sopranos, so he doesn’t like Italians. “I’ll have an order...

A lawsuit filed by a Northern California lesbian against dating service eHarmony represents the types of excesses of the gay movement which do so much damage to their efforts to achieve public acceptance. According to the Reuters article linked above, eHarmony "has long rankled the gay community with its failure to offer a 'men seeking men' or 'women seeking women' option."

Valentine’s Day approaches, but it seems consumers are being standoffish about online dating. The number of U.S. Internet users visiting dating Web sites is falling, says a report set to be released Monday. Last year, only 10% of Internet users visited at least one online dating site, down from 16% in 2005 and 21% in 2002, says the report by Jupiter Research. The decline in unique visitors hasn’t yet resulted in a decline in subscribers, the study found, but the trend likely will at some point, analysts say. Other research firms track the same trend. Traffic to seven of the...

This is strictly vanity. OK, been awhile on eHarmony and still looking for the love of my life. Then I find Rush Limbaugh has signed with them. Guess his fling with Donna Karyn wasn't a match made in heaven or you'd have heard more about it by now. It makes me wonder if he's really looking to get married again. We all know he met Marta online back in the 90s. Will it it be another trip to the altar? Fire away!

Mismatched.com The Wall Street Journal Online By Ellen Gamerman About two million Americans met their spouses online. Now the divorces are starting. How dating Web sites are scrambling to make sure forever really is forever In 1995, Matt Frassica, tired of singles bars and set-ups by friends, tried his hand at dating online. There he met, and later married, a woman who also liked long walks in the rain and homemade lasagna. They were even featured in People magazine as a prototype of successful cyber-romance. Then the fairy tale ended. Mr. Frassica said he realized he was gay, and the...

Posted on Mon, Mar. 27, 2006 Married man is suing for date EHARMONY REFUSES HIM UNTIL DIVORCE Mercury News John Claassen wants a date so badly he's suing for one. He's taking eHarmony.com to court, because the popular online matchmaker refused to find him the perfect mate. Why? Because he is married. Technically, Claassen says, he is legally separated. But that's not good enough for eHarmony, which says it is in the business of matching singles ``free of relationship commitments.'' That puts him in cyber-dating limbo. ``Most people don't file a suit to get a date,'' Claassen said Friday after...

This was definitely not like having a sleepover with my best friend. As I sat across the dinner table from Melissa, on a date set up via the website eHarmony, I thought about that testimonial from their ads and laughed to myself. We were having a fine conversation, one that ranged from movies to television to music to current events (although she was a bit freaked out at my strong opinions on Iraq, not all of which were PC). But there was a certain quality about her that made me a bit uncomfortable. Perhaps it was the fact that her...

The Love Doctor Does eHarmony have the right love potion? Q&A by Kathryn Jean Lopez Are you looking for love in all the wrong places? Is online dating the right place? Dr. Neil Clark Warren, the founder of eHarmony thinks he has a winning formula for helping singles find their "soul mate" — and save marriage in America in the process. "Of all the people you meet in life, only a few would make a great marriage partner for you," Warren writes in his latest book Falling in Love for all the Right Reasons: How to Find Your Soul Mate....

I went to this link below:: http://www.nynewsday.com/news/local/state/ny-bc-ny--people-letterman-1224dec24%2C0%2C4823415.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork And spotted an error in the E-Harmony ad

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Chemistry? Forget it. Psychology and statistics best determine whether two people will have a happy marriage. At least so claims an online dating service that's patented its matchmaking formula. EHarmony.com Inc. this month received U.S. Patent No. 6,735,568, which describes a "method and system for identifying people who are likely to have a successful relationship." Not surprisingly, critics and competitors trash eHarmony's process, which saturates mate-seekers with more than 430 questions, as overly scientific. And some call the so-called "love patent" little more than a gimmick. But the patent has also sparked a debate more...