Silence is the New Luxury in a Resort. Why Quiet is a New Trend for Luxury Hotels.

Last week I stayed at a Beach Front Room at a Ritz Carlton in Florida, The Penthouse Suite in an Omni Hotel in Houston and a Luxury Hotel in Ft Lauderdale and in all three hotels I wore my noise canceling headset in the room because the outside noise be it a live Reggae Band, or Cars on the highway were so loud.  It does not surprise me that the latest trend in luxury travel doesn’t involve thread count or a seaweed-mud wrap. It’s silence. Hotels from luxury resorts to business-travel chains are marketing things like noise-free zones, triple-paned glass, soundproof walls, and serene settings where the whole sell is the ability to hear a pin drop. As an introvert on the Myers Briggs personality indicator that is music make that blessed silence to my ears.  Here is a fun article on the subject.

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Facts About Online Dating

·        Match.com reports that 44% of its members in the United States have children. 

·       On free dating sites, at least 10% of new accounts are from scammers. 

·        One-third of people who have used online dating have never actually gone on a date with someone they met on these sites. 

·       Thirty-three percent of online daters form a relationship, 33% do not, and 33% give up. 

·        On internet dating sites, men who reported incomes higher than $250,000 received 156% more email than those with $50,000. 

·        One-in-five online daters have asked someone else to help them with their profile. 

·        Many online daters enlist their friends in an effort to put their best digital foot forward.

·        Some 22% of online daters have asked someone to help them create or review their profile. Women are especially likely to enlist a friend in helping them craft the perfect profile—30% of female online daters have done this, compared with 16% of men.

·         Online dating peaks among people in their mid-20s through mid-40s. Some 22% of 25-34 year olds and 17% of 35-44 year olds have used an online dating site or mobile dating app.

 ·        45-54 year olds are just as likely to date online as are 18-24 year olds (8% of 45-54 year olds and 10% of 18-24 year olds are online daters). This might seem counterintuitive—aren’t most of those 18-24 year olds single? But middle-aged adults are often described as a “thin dating market,” meaning that they have a relatively limited number of available partners within their immediate social circles.

·         Ninety-two percent of single parents would rather date other single parents. 

·         5% of Americans who are in a marriage or committed relationship say they met their significant other online.

·         Despite the wealth of digital tools that allow people to search for potential partners, and even as one-in-ten Americans are now using one of the many online dating platforms, the vast majority of relationships still begin offline. even among Americans who have been with their spouse or partner for five years or less, fully 88% say that they met their partner offline–without the help of a dating site.

Patti Wood, MA, Certified Speaking Professional - The Body Language Expert. For more body language insights go to her website at www.PattiWood.net. Check out Patti's website for her new book "SNAP, Making the Most of First Impressions, Body Language and Charisma" at www.snapfirstimpressions.com. Also check out Patti's YouTube channel at http://youtube.com/user/bodylanguageexpert.

What Time of Year are Relationships the Most Likely to Break Up?

When the weather turns cold so do many relationships.  It's called the "relationship freeze" as many couples break up, or decide to around the holidays.  Divorce attorneys see an uptick in business in January, immediately following the holiday season. So this shows how temperature effects the cooling of a relationship and why you want your relationship to stay hot, or at least warm!

One in three teenagers have experienced violence in a dating relationship.

Patti Wood, MA, Certified Speaking Professional - The Body Language Expert. For more body language insights go to her website at www.PattiWood.net. Check out Patti's website for her new book "SNAP, Making the Most of First Impressions, Body Language and Charisma" at www.snapfirstimpressions.com. Also check out Patti's YouTube channel at http://youtube.com/user/bodylanguageexpert.

10 Strange but True Facts About Kissing. What does Research Show About Men, Women and Kissing?

1.       What is known as a French Kiss in the English speaking world is called an English Kiss in France.

2.      Studies indicate that a man who kisses his wife goodbye when he leaves for work averages a higher income than the guy who doesn’t.

3.      If a man kisses his wife good bye every morning both members of the couple report the marriage is happier and the morning kissing also has been shown to lead to long term happy marriages.

4.      Research shows that kissing or if you prefer the scientific term Osculation, is often the deciding factor in selecting a sexual partner as well as first “kiss or miss” determiner of selecting a life partner, especially for women.

5.      Kissing evolved to stimulate all three distinct brain systems involved in mating and reproduction those that involve sex drive, romantic love, and attachment. In fact more of your brain lights up during kissing than it does for other later romantic activity.

6.      Why women kiss before they say, “I do.” Studies reveal many woman place great emphasis on a man kisses before going to bed with them.

7.      A woman tends to be attracted to male partners with a different immune system makeup from their own and she detects this information through smell when they kiss.

8.     Have a great first kiss - A bad first kiss can kill a would-be romance faster than you can reapply your lipstick. In a S.U.N.Y. Albany survey, shows that  higher number of women than men said they would not have sex with a bad kisser and more than 69 percent of women say would end the relationship if the first kiss was bad.

9.      A kiss is the best “On” button -Women are stimulated faster by kissing that any other physical activity to prompt them to want to engage in sex. Yes you read that right.

10.  Kissing is a stress reliever. -Researchers found that in long term relationships the more the couple kissed and the more their stress hormone cortisol levels declined.

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Patti Wood, MA, Certified Speaking Professional - The Body Language Expert. For more body language insights go to her website at www.PattiWood.net. Check out Patti's website for her new book "SNAP, Making the Most of First Impressions, Body Language and Charisma" at www.snapfirstimpressions.com. Also check out Patti's YouTube channel at http://youtube.com/user/bodylanguageexpert.

A Strange but True Fact About Women and Men and Gender Differences in Communication

On an average, women say over 7,000 words per day. Men say only around 2,000.

Patti Wood, MA, Certified Speaking Professional - The Body Language Expert. For more body language insights go to her website at www.PattiWood.net. Check out Patti's website for her new book "SNAP, Making the Most of First Impressions, Body Language and Charisma" at www.snapfirstimpressions.com. Also check out Patti's YouTube channel at http://youtube.com/user/bodylanguageexpert.