Cathy and Peter met in late November, 2005 on JDate®.com --- the #1 Jewish social scene. Both of them were recently separated and neither were looking for a serious relationship. Cathy had her arm twisted by an old high school friend to join the online dating site as she didn't want to go bar-hopping. She created her perfect online dating profile, which was filled with humor and a good representation of who she really was. She uploaded a recent photo, clicked "submit" and was ready to go.

Peter and Cathy started communicating via instant messaging and the initial IM turned into a two hour phone call. It was the first person she IM'd with. One week later they met for dinner.  Cathy's goal was only for friendship. By the time they got to dessert, she had a huge crush on Peter. He was physically exactly her type and the couple started dating once a week from that night on.


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Meet Bridget and Peter from Tulsa, Oklahoma.

The two met on eharmony® and were married on their very first date.

Bridget and Peter had both been married before. They wanted their next marriage to be their final marriage. They both joined eharmony.com looking for love online.

When Peter received Bridget's request for communication on the site, he was at the library. They communicated back and forth and he instantly knew that she was going to be his wife. Bridget said she realized within two days the she would spend the rest of her life with Peter.

Read about their courtship that resulted in happily ever after.

When you say you are going on a third date, quite often the men will smile and say, 'Ah, the third date. It must be the sex-date.' Women typically respond with, 'You need to wait until 6 dates, 10 dates, or a month before ending up naked with your new guy.'

But has the outdated 3-date rule been replaced by the newer 3-month rule? On my recent Ask the Cyber-Dating Expert radio show, America's Love Experts Matt Titus and Tamsen Fadal said, absolutely so. Tamsen believes in the 90-day rule as people are meeting faster with online dating, and you need to get to an emotional bond which will last longer. Her husband, Matt Titus claims that after 6 months the physical bond can fizzle out. On the program, he added that the lure of sex is more powerful than the actual acts of sex.

This also comes at a time when Steve Harvey's book, Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man: What Men Really Think About Love, Relationships, Intimacy, and Commitment, which was released in January 2009, is still a number one Amazon best-selling book in the category of dating and relationships. Harvey who has appeared all over network television talks about his 90-day probationary period in the relationship and insists that women should wait before giving the man the "cookie."