Want to start dating again?

For a professional, there is usually a spectacular balancing act being performed behind the scenes. For each step you take in one direction, you have retreated from another. That’s what makes choices so important. Your choices are pulsing with consequence.

Being so busy, is it possible to be delighted with all areas of your life? Can a person get the balance right? Of course it’s possible. The solution is not a big secret. You just have to delegate what you can.

When you need to lose some weight you see a personal trainer or a dietician. When going on holiday you visit your travel agent. You see a tax expert for your accounts and a real estate agent when buying a house. So what do you do if you find yourself not getting the opportunity to meet single, like minded people and the NZ online dating sites just don’t do it for you?

There are dating agencies all over Auckland. It’s like a buffet of single life. You can walk up and try a slice of speed dating, then heap on a helping of specialised matchmaking for professional, like minded people. Maybe for dessert you’ll sneak a little dating for outdoor enthusiasts. It’s all there; you just have to take the plunge and give something new a try.

So you need to work out which is going to work for you.

Online dating is usually the first place people go. It is a good way of wetting your feet so to speak and getting back into the dating game. The pros of online dating is that you can search the net in the privacy of your own home, see photos and communicate with people for a time before meeting them. The cons however are that unfortunately some people lie and you’ll never know till you meet them! In my experience people with high profile work and social lives are uneasy about having their photo attached to a dating site for all to see.

Next we have event agencies. Again these are great for getting back into the dating scene. Meeting new people and doing activities you like. The good thing about event agencies is that there is no one on one pressure. But some want the one on one pressure! They want someone else to do the matchmaking and that is where dating agencies like Two’s Company come in. No you do not get to see photos but that is because the clients that chose matchmaking agencies do not want their photo bandied about. They pay money to join a dating agency because they are serious about finding some one for a long term relationship. They join because they love their life, their families, friends, hobbies etc and whilst enjoying that, they find that there are simply no opportunities to meet single, like minded people.

A quote from a very happy couple that married on Queens Birthday 2007.

“Sasha at 2’s Co made it so easy. The meeting was over a coffee at a café close to my work so that it would fit into my schedule. There were no forms to fill in and Sasha put me at ease straight away by telling me it would be painless. After an hours chat I knew more about 2’s Co, more about myself and what I wanted out of life. By the time I left I was very excited about the prospect of having Sasha as my dating agent. Weeding out the Mrs Wrongs and introducing me to the Mrs Rights. The process was underway.

Sasha flicked me through a profile, which I must say sounded so great on paper I was dubious – but as Sasha said she’s hardly going to tell me things that are not true when I’m only going to find out when I meet her so I gave her a call. We chattered for hours and I met up the following night. Easy! Painless! Enjoyable!

About 4 introductions later I met Tania. Sasha had told me it was a numbers game, that It could be the first person I meet, fourth, tenth or that she might not even have the woman of my dreams. But that as long as I thought she was introducing me to the right caliber of woman we would just keep going.

I remember her saying – look at it this way maybe the love of your life does not join for 6 months!

Anyway back to H.T – that was 14 months ago and we are very happy. We quite openly tell people how we met as Sasha just became a friend who happened to know hundreds of eligible single people!!

Sasha asked me to write a testimonial for her website – which I did – but then I did one better and wrote this! If I had not joined 2’s Co I would not have met H.T. Fact.

Thank you Sasha”