I can look at a woman and just know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that she would be a miserable person to date. I’ll know that her life is out of control and she’s wildly unstable and prone to massive mood swings. I’ll know that she’s manipulative and an absolute master at [...]
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Posted in dating drama, romance on Jul 2nd, 2011
Mike’s recent post about what he missed about being young surprised me, but maybe that’s just because I’m getting senile. It shouldn’t have surprised me, because it’s a sentiment I see and hear expressed in different ways all the time. Somehow, it comes as a shock to me every time.
For me, aging has been incredibly [...]
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Posted in dating drama, romance on Jun 6th, 2011
I think Mike’s Romeo and Juliet post was dead on with one exception: I don’t think the delusions had anything to do with age. Do adolescents tend to meet cute members of the opposite sex, hear a couple of funny comments, see them do one thing that could be construed as mildly commendable and then [...]
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Posted in dating drama, parenting, romance on Jun 4th, 2011
Adolescence is that wonderful time when we are graced with the ability to have emotions. We move beyond accepting simple “yes or no” answers and start to ask “why” and consider how those answers make us feel. Everything is driven (quite powerfully) by an emotion. It can’t simply be that we admire [...]
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Posted in dating drama, online dating on Apr 5th, 2011
Not long ago, Mike offered a response to a reader who asked when was the right time to switch to “in a relationship”. But she was far from alone in her inquiry. Around the same time, I saw a discussion of the issue on Blog Catalog, and caught a snippet of teenage consternation over relationship [...]
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Posted in dating drama on Mar 3rd, 2011
Tiffany and I received another question from one of our readers. This question tackles the important issue of “when do I change my Facebook status to in a relationship?” My immediate response was, “Before the effects of alcohol wear off”. I still stand by that response but I felt like I should [...]
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Posted in dating drama, relationships on Dec 21st, 2010
A while ago I think I was in a relationship with a women. I say, “I think” because I’m not entirely certain. You see, she was a little flippant with regards to being considered “in a relationship” and would mysteriously dump me at random intervals. We seemed to be perfect for each other. [...]
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A few months ago, a friend at work sent me a link to a blog post called “Does This Law Degree Make My Ass Look Fat?” In a nutshell, the author suggested that men really don’t want to date attractive, successful women who have it all together and are self-sufficient. They require, in her words, [...]
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Posted in dating drama, romance, women on Dec 9th, 2010
Keep him waiting: Don’t be ready when he shows up to take you out to dinner, it makes you seem desperate. Besides, you want to give him a realistic idea of what it will be like to be married to you. Take control early on and show him that it actually is all [...]
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Recently, I ran a keyword density analysis on this blog and made an interesting discovery: though the name of the blog is “Life, Love and Online Dating” and our subject is dating and relationships, somehow Mike and I had gotten 115 posts and about a year into this endeavour without once using the word “love” [...]
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