Welcome to all!

It's nearly the Fourth of July already. I hope your summer is going well. Be sure to take the special someone in your life to some celebrations this week.

If you are getting to know someone via the internet dating services, I suggest that you work the words "fireworks" and "hot" into some of your emails. This is a great opportunity to be creative and playful in your emails. Both are attractive traits, aren't they?

This month's theme is Shakespearean. I was inspired by the line, "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" What a great way to start a sonnet.

Enjoy the issue.

Be sure to check out the reviews below of a couple of the best dating services on the internet, Yahoo Personals.com and Senior Friend Finder.com. Internet dating is one of the best ways for busy singles to safely meet and to get to know each other.

Enjoy the following features of The Dating Advisor and keep your spirits high!

In This Issue

1) Favorite Dating Service Reviews
2) Romantic Movie--Much Ado About Nothing
3) Find a Unique Gift at Elisabeth.com
4) Article--Top Ten Ways to Set Appropriate Expectations for Dating
5) Love Poem--Shall I Compare Thee? by William Shakespeare
6) Love Song--Everybody Loves Somebody by Dean Martin

1) Favorite Dating Service Reviews

YahooPersonals.com
The Yahoo! website is one of the most frequently used websites on the entire internet, so not surprisingly, the YahooPersonals dating service is one of the most frequently used dating sites. The membership is huge! You’ll notice that when you do a search for profiles of eligible singles in your immediate geographical area that you will receive more results than with any other dating service. No wonder YahooPersonals website title is, "Discover great singles near you." And if you don’t live in the U.S., don’t worry. YahooPersonals has their site interfaced for about 9 different countries and 6 different languages. Take a free Tour of their site, a wonderful flash presentation, and then start searching for a friend, a date, a relationship, and more.

Review continues Click Here.

Tickle.com
The motto for SeniorFriendFinder is, "Dating for people with experience," and experience is something that the FriendFinder network has in enormous amounts. They know how to bring people together and they know how to create a website that supports the dating service better than anyone. The entire FriendFinder network of members is about 20 million strong, and the SeniorFriendFinder segment boasts about a quarter million members. There are generally a couple thousand members online at any given time, so you can feel confident that you will meet some wonderful, experienced adults who are looking for someone just like you for dating or correspondence.

Review continues Click Here.

2) Much Ado About Nothing Movie Review

Is this really the way people used to connect back in Elizabethan days? It's too funny, and too charming! You've got to see this Shakespearean film again!

The summer scenes of Tuscany alone make this a wonderful movie. You'll love Michael Keaton's comic bit. It's the funniest comic relief bit I've ever seen.

Here's a review by Amazon.com editor, Jim Emerson.

"Much Ado About Nothing is probably the most satisfying, and certainly the liveliest and most charming, of Kenneth Branagh's Shakespeare films. The witty badinage between Branagh and his then-wife Emma Thompson, as Benedick and Beatrice, is as bright and sunny as the golden sunlight that shines on the Tuscan villa where the picture was shot. This production--and don't ask about the plot, just remember the title--is an ebullient celebration of art and artifice, culminating in a joyous dance, and performed at a brisk pace by an all-star cast, including Denzel Washington, Robert Sean Leonard, Keanu Reeves, and Michael Keaton. --Jim Emerson."

3) Find a unique, fun gift at Elisabeth.com

Tops, Pants, Skirts, Jackets, Dresses, Accessories, Swim, Sale Items, Liz Claiborne, in sizes 14-24 and also Petites. You can shop online or via toll free telephone. View items by size to make shopping easier. Excellent Fit Guide and Fabric Guide.
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4) Top Ten Ways to Set Appropriate Expectations for Dating by Jane Johnson

"1) Give yourself time to get back into the groove of dating

If you haven’t dated in a while it may require an investment of time and effort on your part if you are ultimately looking for a soul-mate. As we get older and learn from our experiences our requirements for an ideal mate may change and some things that were must haves may become negotiable. Getting dating experience helps with clarity around what is and is not negotiable in a mate. Detach from how long you think it ought to take to find your soul-mate.

2) Develop a “catch and release” program which supports your quest for an ideal mate.

Remember if you’re dating someone you really enjoy AND deep down know they are not “the one” – by keeping this person in your life hoping they will magically become “the one” – it keeps them and YOU from being open for the real “one”. Don’t be afraid to adopt a catch and release program if it’s not perfect, for you. Just maybe your ideal mate is waiting for you to become available!

3) Be irresistibly YOU!

At the end of the day – when people fall in love – it’s because they feel they know the “real you”. Why wait until later to reveal who that person is – start being YOU in every moment. Others may just find you irresistibly attractive!"

Article continues Click Here.

5) Shall I Compare Thee? by William Shakespeare

Love poems have the power to inspire us and to warm our hearts. We should take a few minutes each day to recall an inspirational line or stanza.

Shall I Compare Thee?

Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day?
Thou are more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And Summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd:
But thy eternal Summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st:
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

Sticking with the Shakespeare theme this month, here is my favorite Shakespearean sonnet. It's hard to believe that it is a little over 400 years old.

Wouldn't you love to be immortalized in a poem, which is part of the poem's theme?

Shakespeare's sonnets take some work to understand and appreciate, so be sure to read the notes about this poem.

Read interesting notes about the backstory of Shall I Compare Thee.

6) Love Song: Everybody Loves Somebody
by Dean Martin

Perhaps this is not in keeping with the Shakespeare theme this month, but just imagine working this Dean Martin classic into "Much Ado About Nothing."

Makes you smile, doesn't it?

Everybody Loves Somebody

Everybody loves somebody sometime
Everybody falls in love somehow
Something in your kiss just told me
My sometime is now

Everybody finds somebody someplace
There's no telling where love may appear
Something in my heart keeps saying
My someplace is here

If I had it in my power
I'd arrange for every girl to have you charms
Then every minute, every hour
Every boy would find what I found in your arms

Everybody loves somebody sometime
And though my dreams were overdue
Your love made it well worth waiting
For someone like you

If I had it in my power
I'd arrange for every girl to have you charms
Then every minute, every hour
Every boy would find what I found in your arms

Everybody loves somebody sometime
And though my dreams were overdue
Your love made it well worth waiting
For someone like you

That's all for now.

Make it a great week.