By SANDRA DICK FOR many, cyberspace is where boy meets girl, dates are organised and, for some, real romance can blossom.

Single women, we bet you've been guilty of at least one of these missteps in pursuit of a perfect romance - or in attempt to sustain a love connection.

Single women, we bet you've been guilty of at least one of these missteps in pursuit of a perfect romance - or in attempt to sustain a love connection.

It's said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. So, yes, we know that snooping around our mate's email account is a bad idea and that believing in the fairy-tale love stories we grew up reading is silly, but sometimes we find ourselves giving these relationship moves the ol' college try! The results? Not so successful. Plus, we start to feel unbalanced, and perhaps rightly so. This point is this: there are certain relationship mistakes women make over and over again. Like sleeping in a bad position and waking with a stiff neck, we sometimes don't realize we're blundering and repeating until the ouch factor comes into play. Well, it's time to stop. We're declaring once and for all: let's quit! Quitters sometimes prosper, especially when lousy habits get left behind. Here's the list of relationship blunders we wish we ladies would stop making.

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