Mary Balfour

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Mary Balfour

FREE dating tips webinar

Be inspired and learn up to up your dating game with our FREE webinar.

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Mary Balfour

Informal Ways To Meet Singles

Smart singles are always ready to grab the unexpected opportunity. It used to be only men who seized chances for a chat-up line or played metaphorical footsy.

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Meeting Potential Partners – Why Leave it to Chance?

You are an independent person but, like all human beings, you have a need for intimacy, and an intimate relationship is maybe the best way for you to feel really fulfilled.

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Mary Balfour

Love – the legal high!

I’m sure that many of us know this already. OK, it was only a small sample – fifteen to be precise – involved in an experiment at Stanford University. All were in the passionate early stages of a relationship.

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Mary’s Own Happy Ending

My man number one was a 6’ 6” (!) alpha male. He positively towered above me. However, by way of practical, manly skills he was utterly hopeless.

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Update on Kiyo & Misha our loved-up aardvarks…

Romeo and Juliet, Anthony and Cleopatra, Posh and Becks... and Kiyo and Misha? All classic couples have a story - here are Drawing Down the Moon's adopted aardvarks!

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The ‘marriage-saver’ toilet seat!

Kunio Harimoto, who sells Japan’s all-singing, all-dancing latrines around the world, takes loos rather seriously. One of his big innovations — dubbed the “marriage-saver”...

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How I became a matchmaker

To watch a video of me talking about my various careers over many decades and how I finally arrived at being a matchmaker

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I was on Saturday Live!

They very kindly asked me to contribute to their Sound Sculpture feature on Sat 27th March. What was the topic? Well, just for once it wasn’t about top tips for surviving a first date, but burnt toast.

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1st phone call – dos & don’ts!

Dos and don'ts of that first phone call with potential date!

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Mary Balfour

Women-only dating seminar

I want to help you find and keep that gorgeous guy! If you secure a place on my next “Find my Man Now“

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Ask Mary Balfour about dating:

Head of exclusive London Dating agency DDM, Mary is an experienced matchmaker with plenty of advice for those in need.