By: Jan Yager

ISBN 1-889262-50-1, trade paperback $19.95
ISBN 1-889262-52-8 hardcover $29.95

6x9 187 pages, bibliography, resource guide, index

125 Ways to Meet the Love of Your Life helps readers to find the love of their life as well as what to do to keep the new relationship going. The 125 annotated ways are divided into 9 categories such as introductions by friends and family, parties, matchmakers, personal ads, travel, and lots more. Examples of successful matches based on Dr. Yager's original research are included throughout those chapters. Extensive appendix of additional resources.

Detailed Information

Contents

Part 1   Gearing Up

1  Why You Need This Book   1
2  A Love Story   7
3  How to Have a More Productive   17
    Search and Increase the Odds
4  Staying Safe During Your Search   27
5  Getting Ready for Your Search   31
6  Getting to Know You   45
 

Part 2   The Search Begins: 125 Ways to Meet the Love of Your Life 54

7  Making Introductions (1-18)   55
8  School, Work, or Business (19-34)    79
9  Personal Ads (Print or Online) (35-40)   90
10  Trips, Travel and Vacations (41-49)    101
11  Cultural, Educational or Volunteer Activities
      and Singles Associations (50-78)    109
12  Commercial Social Settings (Bars, Clubs, and Restaurants) (79-88)   119
13  Sports Activities (89-99)   125
14  Seasonal Opportunities: Holidays and Camp(100-108)   129
15  Miscellaneous “How to Meet” Ideas (109-125)   133

Part 3   The Next Steps 139

16  Continuing the Search   140
17  When You Find “The One”   145

 

Bibliography    155
Appendix: Resources   159
Index   181
About the Author   187

Published or Reader Reviews

“Enhanced with a bibliography, a resource guide, an a "user friendly" index, 125 Ways To Meet The Love Of Your Life by relationship and workplace expert Jan Yager is a 187-page guide to finding and keeping just the right spouse for you. Jan draws upon her extensive and original research (including dozens of interviews with men and women about how they found their mate) as well as businesses offering in-person and online dating or matchmaking services, and that enduring phenomena known as the "singles club". Divided into nine categories of access to potential mates (ranging from introductions by family and friends, to travel, parties, matchmakers, personal ads, and more), 125 Ways To Meet The Love Of Your Life is confidently recommended to any man or woman who is tired of living alone and ready to meet and match that one special person with whom they could spend the rest of their lives.”

—Midwest Book Review

“As one of the country’s leading relationship experts, Dr. Jan Yager is a person who has been there (single) and done that (found the love of her life!). Even if you’ve tried everything, you’ll find this book chock-full of refreshing recommendations. By following Yager’s advice you’re bound to meet “Mr. or Ms. Right.” The chapter written by her husband Fred is sure to instill in you extra hope that your "one" is searching just as hard for you as you are for him or her.“

—Susanne Gaddis, Ph.D., Chapel Hill, North Carolina

"Jan Yager has written a smart and important book for singles that is both hopeful and inspiring. It is well thought out, well organized, and can be read and reread over and over again. I recommend 125 Ways To Meet The Love Of Your Life to all my clients who are ready to meet 'the one'!"

—Nancy White, relationships coach

"125 Ways To Meet The Love Of Your Life is a great book! I love the part about how the author went about meeting her future husband. I also totally agree with Jan Yager that if you want to meet someone, you need to go out and look, and be specific about what you want. While you can't always control your own heart, you can increase the odds and this book is a great way to do that. I'm recommending it to all my single friends!"

—Jill Bourque, creator of the improvisational comedy show, How We First Met

"Dr. Jan Yager's 125 Ways To Meet The Love Of Your Life is filled with research, information, ideas, and resources that empower singles to finall find what might have appeared impossible: a true life partner! No single person should be with this book!"

—Allie Ochs, relationships coach

 

About the Author

Jan Yager

Jan Yager, Ph.D. (the former J.L./Janet Barkas) is a writer, sociologist, consultant, professional speaker, artist, and publishing entrepreneur whose areas of expertise include relationships and business issues including time management and work relationships. Jan's first book published by Hannacroix Creek Books, Inc., Friendshifts®, based on fifteen years of original friendship research, led to interviews on The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Today Show, The View , National Public Radio, and other programs. Other books include When Friendship Hurts (published by Simon & Schuster, Inc.) as well as two career books by Facts on File, Inc. A prolific writer of fiction as well as nonfiction whose books have been translated into 14 languages, she is co-author of two suspense thrillers, Untimely Death and Just Your Everyday People. For more information, go to: www.drjanyager.com.

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The following foreign editions of this title are available:

Romania, Norwegian, Korea (Sungwoo); Italian (TEA, October 2005); China  In preparation: Thai

English reprints: India (Jaico Books, 2008); Australia, UK, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa (Hinkler Books, under the title Meet The Love Of Your Life);

Inquiries about all other languages should be send your request to the foreign rights department at Hannacroix Creek Books, Inc.: hannacroix@aol.com. Our company maintains an active network of highly-regarded and prestigious foreign agents in most major territories; in territories where we are not represented by a foreign co-agent, we deal directly with foreign publishers.

For subsidiary rights consideration of this title including mass market paperback rights, or for book clubs, contact the subsidiary rights department at Hannacroix Creek Books, Inc. ( hannacroix@aol.com, Fax: 203-968-0193) and your inquiry will be considered.

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Please note: No one under the age of 18 is allowed to participate in an online dating site. Read the rules and regulations at each site. Know what you are agreeing to. Protect your privacy and identity. Be careful and keep yourself safe. Review the safety tips in Chapter 4, “Staying Safe During Your Search.”

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"125 Ways to Meet the Love of Your Life is confidently recommended to any man or woman who is tired of living alone and [is] ready to meet and match that one special person with whom they could spend the rest of their lives."

—Midwest Library Review

 

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Stamford, Connecticut--Are you looking for love in all the wrong places? Or have you already given up on the search? Now, there’s a book that not only shows you where to find the love of your life, but what to do in order to keep the new relationship going.

 

125 Ways to Meet the Love of Your Life (Hannacroix Creek Books, Inc., 2004 ISBN 1-889262-50-1, trade paperback $19.95, ISBN 1-889262-52-8 hardcover, $29.95 6x9 187 pages, bibliography, resource guide, index), by relationships and workplace expert Dr. Jan Yager, is a comprehensive guide to finding and keeping not just any mate, but the right mate.

 

Author of such highly-acclaimed books as Single in America, Friendshifts^®: The Power of Friendship and How It Shapes Our Lives, When Friendship Hurts and Creative Time Management for the New Millennium, Dr. Yager applies her time management principles to make the search for love more productive.

 

In doing this, she even uses herself as an example. Dr. Yager met her husband Fred through a personal ad she placed in New York magazine. She read Fred's letter, immediately called him, met him, they fell in love, and they married 23 days later and that was 22 happy years ago.

 

Dr. Yager's book offers help to both men and women as they search each day for a partner in life and love.

 

Best-selling author Gregory Godek (1,000 Ways to Be Romantic) had this to say about Dr. Yager's book: “My 20 years in the romance biz have taught me that fate often needs a little help. 125 Ways to Meet the Love of Your Life is just what the love doctor ordered!”

 

A Korean translation of 125 Ways to Meet the Love of Your Life has been published (Sungwoo, June 2004) as well as Italian (TEA, 2006), Chinese, Romanian, and Norwegian language translations. A Thai is in preparation. An English language reprint was published by Hinkler Books Pty Ltd in Australia and the UK; an English reprint for India was published in September 2008.

 

125 Ways to Meet the Love of Your Life is based on extensive original research including dozens of interviews with men and women about how they found their mate, as well as with businesses offering in-person and online dating or matchmaking services, and singles clubs.

 

Dr. Yager's book provides valuable insights into getting ready for the search, as well as how to increase the likelihood you will have a happy relationship or marriage once you find “the one.” “The number one question I've been asked by singles in the two decades since Single in America was published is, ‘How can I find the one?’ I researched and wrote 125 Ways to Meet the Love of Your Life to answer that question.”

 

The 125 ways are divided into 9 categories such as introductions by friends and family, parties, and matchmakers, personal ads, sports activities, holidays and vacations, travel, cultural and educational activities, and lots more with examples of successful matches as well as resources included throughout those chapters or in the Appendix of resources.

 

125 Ways to Meet the Love of Your Life is available through local or online bookstores, such as www.bn.com, www.amazon.com, or www.powells.com through wholesalers such as Ingram, Baker & Taylor, or Follett or directly from the publisher through Book Clearing House by calling, toll-free, 1-800-431-1579 or through their website www.bookch.com.

 

Contact Hannacroix Creek Books, Inc. if you wish to arrange an interview with sociologist and relationships/business expert and author (203) 321-8674 or call Dr. Jan Yager directly (203) 968-8098 or send an e-mail to: yagerinquiries2@aol.com. For more information on Dr. Yager, visit her website: www.janyager.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Additional Praise for

125 Ways to Meet the Love of Your Life

 

 

As one of the country’s leading relationship experts, Dr. Jan Yager is
a person who has been there (single) and done that (found the love of
her life!). Even if you’ve tried everything, you’ll find this book
chock-full of refreshing recommendations. By following Yager’s
advice you’re bound to meet “Mr. or Ms. Right.” The chapter written by
her husband Fred is sure to instill in you extra hope that your "one"
is searching just as hard for you as you are for him or her.

—Susanne Gaddis, Ph.D., Chapel Hill, North Carolina

 

 “Jan Yager has written a smart and important book for singles that is both hopeful and inspiring. It is well thought out, well organized, and can be read and reread over and over again. I recommend 125 Ways To Meet The Love Of Your Life to all my clients who are ready to meet ‘the one’!”

—Nancy White, relationships coach

 

"125 Ways to Meet the Love of Your Life is a great book! I love the part about how the author went about meeting her future husband. I also totally agree with Jan Yager that if you want to meet someone, you need to go out and look, and be specific about what you want. While you can't always control your own heart, you can increase the odds and this book is a great way to do that. I'm recommending it to all my single friends!"

—Jill Bourque, creator of the improvisational comedy show, How We First Met (http://www.howwefirstmet.com)

 

 

"Dr. Jan Yager's 125 Ways to Meet the Love of Your Life is filled with research, information, ideas, and resources that empower singles to finall find what might have appeared impossible: a true life partner! No single person should be with this book!"

—Allie Ochs, relationships coach

 

(Complete review)

Enhanced with a bibliography, a resource guide, an a "user friendly" index, 125 Ways To Meet The Love Of Your Life by relationship and workplace expert Jan Yager is a 187-page guide to finding and keeping just the right spouse for you. Jan draws upon her extensive and original research (including dozens of interviews with men and women about how they found their mate) as well as businesses offering in-person and online dating or matchmaking services, and that enduring phenomena known as the "singles club". Divided into nine categories of access to potential mates (ranging from introductions by family and friends, to travel, parties, matchmakers, personal ads, and more), 125 Ways To Meet The Love Of Your Life is confidently recommended to any man or woman who is tired of living alone and ready to meet and match that one special person with whom they could spend the rest of their lives.

—Midwest Book Review

 

About The Author

 

An international relationships expert and workplace consultant, Dr. Jan Yager is the author of numerous books including Single in America, When Friendship Hurts, Friendshifts^®: The Power of Friendship and How It Shapes Our Lives, Business Protocol, Creative Time Management for the New Millennium, The Help Book, and Victims. She has also co-authored with her husband Fred Yager two suspense novels, Untimely Death and Just Your Everyday People. Her titles have been translated into 20 languages including French, Italian, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish, simple and complex Chinese, Japanese, Swedish, Hebrew, Arabic, Indonesian, Norwegian, Romanian, Greek, Korean, Croatian, and German with Polish and Slovenian translations in preparation.

The author, who holds a Ph.D. in sociology (City University of New York, 1983), has often been interviewed by major broadcast and print media including The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Today Show, Good Morning, America, CBS News' Sunday Morning, The View, and The O'Reilly Factor as well as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, People, Time, USA Weekend, USA Today, Parade, The Dallas Morning News, Chicago Tribune, and Reader's Digest.

A member of the National Speakers Association (NSA), she has taught college over the years at several universities including the University of Connecticut, Penn State, St. John's University, Temple University, and The New School.

Dr. Yager, who grew up in Queens, New York, and resided in Manhattan for 15 years, now lives in Fairfield County, Connecticut with her husband Fred and their two sons.

To contact Dr. Yager for an interview, call 203-968-8098 or send an e-mail to: yagerinquiries2@aol.com.

For more information, visit Dr. Yager's website: www.drjanyager.com.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Suggested Interview Questions

 

125 Ways to Meet the Love of Your Life

 

by Dr. Jan Yager

 

1.      There are other books on how to meet someone. What's unique about your approach?

2.      Is it really possible to find the love of your life by next Valentine's Day?

3.      Do women and men want the same things in a relationship?

4.      What are some of the reasons singleness has increased in the last two decades in the United States and internationally?

5.      What's the biggest change you've noticed in the challenges facing a single man or woman now versus two decades ago when you wrote Single in America?

6.      How could someone have a more productive search for “the one”?

7.      What are your top three suggestions for staying safe during the search?

8.      What are four obstacles to finding “the one”?

9.      How can you find someone through Introductions?

10.  How do you search for someone at work without jeopardizing your job?

11.  Does online dating really work? What's the difference between an online dating and an online matchmaking service?

12.  What do brick-and-mortar matchmaking or dating services offer that lower-priced online sites do not?

13.  What are some of the hot trends in the singles industry?

14.  Are singles still going to the so-called singles bars to meet?

15.  Why do you think Singles Clubs have taken off in the last few years as an alternative way to meet?

16.  What cultural, educational, or volunteer activities offer meeting alternatives for singles?

17.  Is your book just for the younger single? If not, what are the similarities and differences in the way younger and older singles go about finding the love of their lives?

18.  What's the most amazing “how we met” story that you heard in your research?

19.  How did you and your husband meet?

20.    What has helped you and your husband to have a happy marriage for 19 years that you think others might find useful in their relationships?