Hi Neenah,

Kudos to you! I am so impressed with your quest.

To answer your question, I would suggest creating a rating scale, but without numbers. Perhaps like a barometer with colors, from red to violet, the rainbow ROYGBIV. I would keep your comments general and then use the "love barometer."

I'm a 43 year old single female who has also not found her guy so I have high hopes for you!

I have a single girl friend in LA and we started a company because we were frustrated with the dating scene. With all the technology today, men and women are lacking in conversations skills, even social skills so we decided to create products that we call conversation starters. I hope you will check out our site www.singletease.com. They really do work!

It's been a 2 year struggle in spreading the word (total grassroots budget and no husbands to support our passion), but when we do a tradeshow, women love our products so we know it will happen one day.

Again, congratulations! You are an inspiration and I'm definitely going to write about you in our blog.

Cheers,

Tamera

Why not wait until yu have at least a half a dozen different "subjects" and give them all an identifying letter (A,B,C,etc) so as to maintain anonymity for the gentlemen, but still maintaining the integrity of your blogging with your honest quest.

They guys you have dates with don't know about your website and your mission?? It seems to me that you would just put it out there so to speak and they would know. Hmmmm.....

I think you can describe your date(s) in rather broad terms. Make an effort to say something positive about the date overall even if it wasn't a match. Avoid the negative. Perhaps approach it from the standpoint of what you learned about yourself or this particular person relative to the "dating game".

Hi how are you? I think it is very considerate of you to show concern for the feelings and privacy of your potential life-mate. It is a strange paradox that if you display too much interest too soon it will most likely push the other person away. Yet if you act indifferent it usually makes the other person very passionate toward you.I know that is messed up but its just the way it is because hope plus doubt equals passion. So its just my opinion but if you really like someone you meet be true to yourself and dont post it until the relationship begins to solidify. And if your date asks why you havent posted your interest in him you would be being honest in saying you were respecting his privacy. Just my thoughts. Thank you for allowing me to comment.

I have the same concerns when I blog. What I decided to do was wait several days to blog about something so as to throw the involved parties off-track. I don't mention names, places or dates. While I try to share with readers my life, like you, I struggle with just how much I should let them know. It's a good thing that this concern didn't present itself until after I started blogging, or I never would have started.

Okay so here's the thing. I'm a zillion miles away from you and found your article on a national website. I'm not entirely sure but I'd bet privacy no longer exists in your world! So.....if I were you...I'd embrace that, and have fun with it! Imagine the opportunity you've been given to take this and realllly run with it! You've literally been handed Mr. Right on a silver platter, you just have to find the platter! I say make them work for it. If they know about your blog, then they too are accepting a part in something that's out for all corners of the world to peer into and believe me...as a fellow unmarried woman...there are a gazillion of us out here rooting for you and hoping you find your Prince More Charming than you ever dreamed of! Remember...IF you want your blog to continue to be followed and hold interest, you have to be willing to really let go and have fun with this! In doing that, I bet the stress from all this publicity will let go and you'll lose the worries and over thinking of how exactly to micromanage your now VERY public dating life! :-) Good Luck and remember....there's a gazillion of us out here rooting for you, at a comfortable distance... not judging or picking your every word and action apart...just simply hoping you find all that you're dreaming of!

Hi: As the author of "THE INTELLIGENT WOMAN'S GUIDE TO ONLINE DATING: And She Lived Happily Ever After," I typically advocate for honesty as the best policy as soon as you meet the person. But I also recommend out-and-out lying. The secrets of this balancing act are, I'm happy to say, disclosed in the book. The book also describes how I met Mr. Right online, and how you can too. Good luck!! I'm on your side!

I blogged my dating adventures and truly found it to be a wonderful escape as well as a way to share hysterical stories. I wasn't until I realized that this one was sticking around...that joking about his peculiar habits might hurt him some day...that I cut back. I miss it, but finding your own way is TRULY the best advice.