Six Steps To Being Yourself On Your First Date

The time has come to meet your countryside match, the rural single you’ve been pinging messages back and forth with. And who knows? Will this be your #MuddyEverAfter? We know that first date nerves are very real, and can make the prospect of meeting someone new very daunting. So, as well as putting together our… Continue reading Six Steps To Being Yourself On Your First Date

How To Stop Comparing Your Countryside Date To Your Ex

Welcome to all of your rural singles! We’re delighted to have you here at Muddy Matches, the rural dating site that helps you find love in the country. Are you newly single? We feel you. Getting over someone is difficult, and sometimes moving on can be even harder. It’s natural to compare new country people… Continue reading How To Stop Comparing Your Countryside Date To Your Ex

Seven Reasons To Try Online Dating With Muddy Matches

Calling all rural singles! If you love the countryside, are a farmer, or just have a passion for rural life, and are single, then we think that Muddy Matches is the online dating site for you. We are a countryside dating site with a difference; we have over 290,000 muddy singles all searching for their… Continue reading Seven Reasons To Try Online Dating With Muddy Matches

November Dating Ideas In The Countryside

Crisp, cool air, rosy cheeks and the prospect of a warming drink after a day outdoors… November is a magical and super-romantic time for dating, especially if you love being outdoors in the countryside. If you’ve met your muddy match on our countryside dating site and want to woo them the right way then be… Continue reading November Dating Ideas In The Countryside

Angela and Stuart saddle up and make hay

“We knew that a week together in a horse box, in a foreign country, would either make or break us!” Here at Muddy Matches HQ, we often find it is the muddiest of circumstance that brings country loving folk closer together as they seek that Muddy Ever After we all look for. That was certainly… Continue reading Angela and Stuart saddle up and make hay

Keeping Your Personal Details Safe When You’re Online Dating

As well as priding ourselves on helping thousands of country lovers meet and find their muddy ever after, here at Muddy Matches we are proud to offer a safe and supportive space to chat. We’re more safety-conscious than ever and it’s doubly important to keep your contact details safe when you’re online dating. Muddy Matches… Continue reading Keeping Your Personal Details Safe When You’re Online Dating

Seven Reasons Why Autumn Is The Perfect Season For Dating In The Countryside

We love Autumn! All around us, the leaves are turning in to the most beautiful shades of red, orange and gold, there’s a clear and fresh sharpness to the early morning air, magical mists dispersing as the sun rises… we could go on. Autumn is well and truly here, and with it, lots of opportunities… Continue reading Seven Reasons Why Autumn Is The Perfect Season For Dating In The Countryside

From catfish to Chris; Claire’s tale of the unexpected

Authenticity starts in the heart. With the new series of The Circle airing on Channel 4, featuring Muddy Matches member Farmer Sy, the hot topic of catfishing has raised its ‘you can never be quite sure who’ head again. Here at Muddy Matches HQ, we take great pride and great care in protecting our country-loving… Continue reading From catfish to Chris; Claire’s tale of the unexpected

Top Six Ways Love + Companionship Can Help Your Mental Wellbeing

Today is World Mental Health Day, and to mark the occasion we’re looking at how love and companionship can be crucial for your mental health and wellbeing. Within the UK farming community this is especially important. Very sadly, according to research by the Farm Safety Foundation, one farmer a week in the UK takes their… Continue reading Top Six Ways Love + Companionship Can Help Your Mental Wellbeing

A milking parlour date confirmed she was a keeper.

When Irish eyes are smiling… Here at Muddy Matches HQ, we love some good rural dating success to shout from the top of the haybales – and nothing pleases us more than news of a  muddy Wedding. Rob and Pam, who went looking for countryside love in 2014, tied the knot just over a month… Continue reading A milking parlour date confirmed she was a keeper.