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How to Fall in Love with Yourself While You Look for Love

Dating is difficult. Inevitably, we get rejected. Or we reject. We want to keep our hearts open but they keep getting smushed. What does it take to fall—and stay—in love with yourself while you look for love? I’m doing a

Posted in Dating, Personal Growth, Quirkytogether, Single Life

Pumpkin, Squash, and How to Use Your Intuition to Find Love (or a Lover)

Coaching is about learning to tune into what you want, and clearing out the voices that tell you you can’t have it. This session my client didn’t want to talk about her career. That had been the primary focus working

Posted in Coaching, Dating

Old-Fashioned Matchmaking Meets Facebook

We’ve all heard success stories of online dating. According to a recent study by Match.com, a sixth of marriages now begin via online dating. If the numbers are so promising, why does online dating feel like an energy suck? As

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Posted in Dating, Technology + Modern Life

Sex and the Single Celiac

Future boyfriends: take note. When we kiss your kisses must be gluten-free. As a newly diagnosed celiac, I am entering into dating terrain that few can imagine. And I am just making sense of it in writing this post. Celiac

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Posted in Dating, migrate, Sex and Relationships

The Try Me Report

A reader asked for my report on TryMe, a new dating service for frustrated hipsters in San Francisco. I showed up at Try Me eager to feel the vibe of a new kind of singles’ event. On the plus side,

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Posted in Dating, Single Life

Antidotes to Online Dating

My sixth sense tells me there is a movement brewing to provide alternatives to online dating. Ways of meeting other human beings live and in the flesh. Imagine that. Of course we can all meet someone in line at the

Posted in Dating, Events, Technology + Modern Life

The Trouble with Brazilian Men

Note: I’m going to share some quirkyalone-relevant posts from my ongoing travel blog here. Enjoy! For non-quirkyalone-related travel observations, you can read my blog My Unplanned Adventure. At first I thought it was just me. My self-esteem had never been

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Posted in Dating, Travel

The Disposable Dating Syndrome

Note: I wrote this post a year ago while I was still in the United States (and not traveling in South America), but realize that it should have been posted all along, so here it is! At the end is

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Thanks for visiting Quirkyalone, the online home of the quirkyalone movement! I'm Lady Q Sasha Cagen and I'm the author of Quirkyalone: A Manifesto for Uncompromising Romantics and To-Do List: From Buying Milk to Finding a Soul Mate, What Our Lists Reveal About Us. I'm here to support you to lead your own self-approved, authentically you quirky life through my writing and online course GetQuirky. Learn more about me here.
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