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szdaily -> Speak Shenzhen
Single woman seeking weekend lover?
     2014-April-15  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

Remember that old tune “Friday, I’m in Love?” Well, some daters are looking to make it a reality.

“I have found a wonderful weekend lover,” reads a testimonial by “Leah, 38” on the new dating website, parttimelove.co.uk. “He asks for no more, and the times we spend together are magical.”

The site, launched in early January, is the brainchild of relationship author and blogger Helen Croydon. Its target demographic is people who want to be independent but also want to fall in love, she says.

Some may wonder whether Part Time Love is simply the newest in a line of dating sites where users troll for one-night stands. But the site isn’t just Tinder with a romantic sheen, if you believe its marketing spiel.

“We are not a no-strings website. We are for singles looking for regular partners with mutual attraction, genuine friendship, respect and a magical spark, but who have no expectations of moving in after three months and value their free time and independence,” claims the site.

Croydon asserts that a low-maintenance or part-time relationship is distinctively different than the eloquently named “booty call,” or the even more lucid “casual encounter” in that the goal is lasting love.

Croydon admits it’s not for everyone. She envisions her demographic as users in their mid-to-late 30s and early 40s who are set in their ways and might find it difficult to adapt domestically to a new partner.

“They’re realistic on the fairy tale,” she says.

“You don’t have to see someone three to four nights a week to express love. In every other aspect of life, we’ve gone for convenience, independence and where individualism is promoted,” she says. “Yet, you have this socially approved model of relationship that you live together.”

Croydon says for it to work, the partners’ emphasis is still on a genuine relationship, in that there is romance and sparks but “without all the monotony and obligation of a full-time relationship.”

    单身女性想找周末情人?

   还记得那首《星期五,我们相爱吧》的老歌吗?现今一些约会中的情侣指望把它变成现实。

    “我找到了一个心仪的周末情人,” 38岁的利亚在新约会网站parttimelove.co.uk上推荐道,“他从不要求过多,我们在一起妙不可言。”

    这家网站一月上旬开始运营,源自恋爱关系作者和博主海伦·克罗伊登的想法。她说,网站的目标人群是那些又想独立又想恋爱的人。

    有人可能会问,临时情人网是否只是众多会员寻找一夜情网站中最新的一个。但如果你把它的广告词当真,它就不只是披着浪漫外衣的交友网站了。

    网站称,“我们并非一夜情网站。我们为单身者建立,让他们找到相互吸引,情真意切,相互尊重而且能来电的意中人,并不期待3个月后就搬到同住,看重自我时间和独立自主。”

    克罗伊登声称,低维护成本或者叫临时关系与被生动地称为“求欢电话”或更好懂的“邂逅”

    不尽相同,因为其目标是长久情爱。

    克罗伊登承认,网站并非适合每个人。她预计目标人群是30多岁到40出头的人,他们行为方式固定,可能难以适应新伴侣同住。

    “对于爱情童话他们的态度是现实的,”她说。

    “不必每周三四个晚上在一起表达爱意。在生活其他方面,我们追求方便,独立,推崇个人主义,”她说,“然而,社会认可的关系模式是情侣住在一起。”

    克罗伊登说,要想行得通,必须强调真诚的关系,这里既有浪漫和激情,但又“完全摆脱全天候伴侣的单调和义务。”

Words to Learn 相关词汇

【寻找】

xúnzhǎo

troll for

try to find or get something in a relaxed way

【推销说辞】

tuīxiāo shuōcí

spiel

a long speech that someone has used many times, that is intended to persuade you to believe or buy things

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