10 rules of dating ra vernon ebook

Millions of women around the world are meeting men on the Internet, or they've met in person and are corresponding by e-mail.But though e-mail and Net-based dating services have revolutionized the dating landscape, they've created their own pitfalls and challenges.These days, men and women meeting for the first time often exchange e-mail addresses — sometimes before they exchange phone numbers!Women meeting new men at business conferences, birthday parties, or clubs give out their e-mail addresses and also take men's e-mail addresses, and then find themselves in an e-mail relationship with a man.With e-mail, women are tempted to let their guard down, let it all hang out, Instant Message men all night, and have cybersex (not The Rules! But we believe you cannot e-mail with abandon, without thinking, without Rules.You must watch what you say, how often you say it, no matter what or how often he e-mails you, otherwise the relationship becomes so casual that it can go poof!

More men are simply asking women out or asking them about their day by e-mail instead of or in addition to calling, whether they first met these women through [email protected], personals, yahoo.com, or at a party at a friend's house.

The Rules for Online Dating takes women through the process — step by step, Rule by Rule — to the ultimate goal: a relationship based on mutual attraction, interest, and respect.

Ellen Fein is a graduate of New York University and lives on Long Island, New York, with her husband and two children.

Readers began — and continue — to set up free online and offline support groups around the world and visit our website ( at the rate of over 400,000 hits a month.

But when we wrote The Rules seven years ago, little was known about online dating-many even considered it dangerous — so we did not even include it.