It isn’t easy to meet good potential partners. TV Psychologist Dr Phil’s advice rings true, “If you don’t want to date a barfly, don’t go to a bar to meet someone!” So where do you go? And what should you say – or not say?! I started this website after reading Professor Richard Wiseman’s book ‘Quirkology’. There is a fascinating chapter on the science of dating – which chat-up lines work, which...

When you start dating – or dating again – it can seem like the only people you meet are on trainee psychopaths. Women report that men are only looking for stick-thin waifs 20 years their junior. Men report that women are all trying to trap them into marriage, babies, nappies and car pooling.