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Many couples celebrated Valentines Day with cards, chocolates and red roses. Sweet expressions of undying love, devotion and affection for that special someone. Sadly, many others celebrated Valentines Day with an online con-artist after being lured into a fraudulent relationship with someone posing as the perfect soul mate. Unfortunately, one online cupid who claimed to be an American businessman working as an Investor in a Ghana Gold Mine Association duped a local woman into believing their long distance romance and business partnership was golden. The woman received an e-mail from the heartless scammer shortly after posting her profile on an...

The game of love is big in Japan. The love simulator game, Love Plus, on Nintendo DS is so popular, that Konami is taking game die hards on a tour around Japan with their virtual girlfriends according to Kotaku. The gaming company anticipates that fans of the love sim game will be willing to pay nearly $500 (USD) to vacation with simulated loves Manaka, Rinko and Nene. The lineup that Konami has setup with local businesses is designed to "unite" dedicated gamers with their virtual lady loves. Participants will board the Love Plus bus in Tokyo. The bus tour will...

A perspective on marriage, looking for a marriage partner, and cyberdating.  Presented to you by OhioWfan, Kate of Spice Island, and Maximus Ridiculousness.OhioWfan's Perspective on Making Marriage Work:My 'assignment' for this special weekend singles thread was to outline what I believe are the ingredients of a long-term successful, loving marriage.  Obviously, in the 'it takes two to tango' spirit, I engaged my adorable life-partner/incredible husband in the task, and together we compiled a list of recommendations and qualities that we believe have made our marriage work so well.   Neither of us is perfect (especially me........he's close!), but we went into marriage with commitment and thought as well as love, and after...

This beautiful girl wants to date you. And you. And you and you and you. NOT. For those of you who may have missed it, last Thursday's article From Russia, with Love ended up being terrifically popular. For fun, we thought we'd check in on the correspondence between Charles and Natalia, to see if she's caught on to the fact that he's caught on to her. From the inexorable and unflappable march of her prose, I'd say.... nope. Oh, a few quick notes first. On Thursday, this article was also posted at Free Republic, and as always, the Freepers...

Finding Your Future Spouse Using the Internet by Father John McCloskey PLEASE PRINT & DISTRIBUTE TO OTHERS What advice would you give for someone struggling to determine if they are called to marriage and how to act on this call once discerned? Well, that is a backward question, in my experience at least. I think the great majority of people naturally assume that they have a vocation to marriage. Usually not much discernment is necessary since God created men and women for various reasons on a natural level, primary of which, after giving glory to God, is to "grow and...