"Women can operate with their heart instead of their head." Following dating rules help you set and maintain your own standards and make sure you don't allow your emotions to overrule your common sense.Gender roles aren't what they used to be, but that doesn't mean that men don't still love the thrill of the hunt. Don't friend him on Facebook, don't text him first and don't initiate anything.He was British and my Mum was Romanian, living in a tiny town in a middle of nowhere.My Dad wasn’t even supposed to be visiting Romania, let alone the town that Mum was living in.Do you want to come and join us when we do blah, blah, blah." Say, "Hey, I'm doing this thing this weekend you should come." He explains that being assertive communicates a much deeper level of confidence.3. If you text your guy during a workday and he hasn't responded to you don't assume he's ignoring you (he's at work! Rather than sending a follow-up text, which can be annoying if his boss is hovering over his desk, give him time to get back to you.He'll likely return the message once he's free later in the day/night.

I fully admit to having no clue what I was doing when first starting dating online.

According to Schneider, it's particularly important to allow men the ability to pursue you in this modern age of technology. Once a guy knows you're interested by initiating conversation, it kind of throws the whole chase off." Schneider cautions women to not be so accessible.

"If I can reach you on Facebook, can text you or tweet you - there's no mystery. It's just instant hook-ups and contact and everything's last minute," says Schneider. "Women are texting guys in the middle of the night, back and forth for hours, and they're not getting dates.

We’re no longer restricted to relationships with people we meet at work or in our area; we can find love on the other side of the world at the touch of a button. Growing up I used to believe in the idea of ‘the one’.

I think it was a combination of watching too many fairy stories and romantic comedies, and the fact that my parents met when my Dad was travelling around the world.