We decided to follow four women in their 30's as they take a proactive aproach to finding that special someone. Three of the women are using different dating services to increase their chances. One is not - think of her as 'The Control' in this experiment. Every Tuesday, we'll check in on our participants to see how much closer they are to reaching their goal, which is to find a man by Christman. Game on. Please note: In order to protect the privacy of unsuspecting mean, we're using code names for the everyone involved.
- By Sarah Rowland 
Executive Search Dating Participant
Codename: News Nun
Age: 35
 Occupation: Print Journalist
Dating Service: Executive Search Dating
Relationship history: Since I started my career late in life, I had a lot of catching up to do professionally. Ergo, I put my love life on hold for five years. In hind-sight, that probably wasn't the smartest (or healthiest) way to go about it. So now I find myself in that not-so-unique position of looking at my watch thinking, "Okay, enough is enough - where is he?"
What I'm Looking for: John Cusack circa Say Anything. Failing that, I'd settle for a sweet, enlightened, loving man who wants to father a couple of brats (preferably with me). Humour is good, but not in that 'ba-dum-bum" clownish way - more like someone who likes to laugh a lot (particularly at my jokes).
Why a dating service: To be honest, I was on the fence about this one. My biggest fear was if I joined a match-making service, they would set me up with Beige Bob in sales. And instead of John Cusak, I would wind up with John Tesh. But last week, I asked out the cutest little SoMa scenester. We had an amazing time - I haven't laughed that much in eons. Then he called and said, "I play for the other team". It was at that point, I warmed up to the idea of trained professionals headhunting on my behalf.
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