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Catherine Townsend
A sex and dating columnist, Catherine Townsend published her first novel Sleeping Around: Secrets of a Sexual Adventuress in 2007, and followed up with Breaking The Rules: Confessions of a Bad Girl in 2008. She also appeared in How To Have Sex After Marriage on Five, and is now writing a third book. Born in Arkansas, Catherine was a gossip columnist for New York Magazine before moving to London in 2003, since when she has had a very interesting - and pretty public - private life...
A 43-year-old American woman has set herself a 52-week deadline for finding The One, and set up a website to help her with her search. Experts are weighing in: Is she crazy for making her hunt for a husband a priority, or does her method make sense?
I agree that it makes sense to put yourself out there as much as possible, having adventures and make meeting new people a priority (this is why I love Internet dating!), but I think that setting an artificial deadline is taking things too far. I wouldn't marry someone who seemed desperate. I want to believe that the man I marry is walking down the aisle because he loves me, not because it's the eleventh hour and he's worried that he may not meet anyone else.
Her idea sounds more like a business plan than a love affair.
Anyway, don't women have enough pressure dealing with ticking biological clocks without adding yet another self-imposed deadline to the mix?
I agree that it makes sense to put yourself out there as much as possible, having adventures and make meeting new people a priority (this is why I love Internet dating!), but I think that setting an artificial deadline is taking things too far. I wouldn't marry someone who seemed desperate. I want to believe that the man I marry is walking down the aisle because he loves me, not because it's the eleventh hour and he's worried that he may not meet anyone else.
Her idea sounds more like a business plan than a love affair.
Anyway, don't women have enough pressure dealing with ticking biological clocks without adding yet another self-imposed deadline to the mix?
