Two friends discuss relationships and other mysteries of life.
Posted in dating drama, relationships, single parent dating on Nov 20th, 2009
No, I’m not talking about the “right place, right time” sort of timing. I’m talking about realistic expectations about the development of a relationship. Mike’s written two posts recently that contained passing references to time frames that twisted my brain into knots. One was his attempt at getting inside a woman’s head [...]
Posted in dating drama, men, relationships on Nov 18th, 2009
Okay, Mike, let’s say for a minute that I buy your rationale. I don’t–I think that the vast majority of the time the reason a man (or woman) holds back is that he (or she) doesn’t want to commit. Maybe that’s because of where he/she is in life and maybe it’s the specific person in [...]
Posted in dating drama, relationships on Nov 15th, 2009
Oh, please, Mike. It’s true that most women don’t ask the questions you mention, but it isn’t because they’re too quick to write a guy off. It’s because they’re too quick to make excuses for him. There’s a reason that He’s Just Not That Into You was the literary version of a shot heard ’round [...]
Posted in dating drama, relationships on Nov 14th, 2009
I met this guy who was funny and charming and cute. He made me laugh and smile and I just felt comfortable around him. His thick outer shell and edgy sense of humor made it hard for me to get close to him as quickly as I would have liked so I moved [...]
Posted in dating drama, relationships on Nov 7th, 2009
I’ll never forget the day that I tried (in vain) to explain to a man that things are not always as they appear. It was a Saturday morning and I was on my way to the park with my kids when my phone rang. The caller was a young man who had simply [...]
Posted in dating drama, relationships on Nov 5th, 2009
I did it again, I recognize that its a pattern but I just cant seem to find a way or the willpower to stick to my guns. My biggest weakness is that I’m just not that strong, I remember saying that to you and (at the time) it wasn’t a joke.
I get myself [...]
Posted in dating drama, relationships on Nov 4th, 2009
Mike, I’ll certainly agree that people sometimes give up too easily. It happens in marriages, and it happens when people only allow twenty minutes for coffee because they believe that a magical sign will have descended within that time or the relationship is forever doomed.
I’ll even agree with you that most decent people with [...]
Posted in dating drama, relationships on Nov 3rd, 2009
This morning, I was talking to Mike about a logistic issue with blogging, and I remembered something I used to tell my students during the many years in which I taught standardized test preparation classes: don’t get married to a problem. That is, don’t get caught up in that feeling that you’ve “come this far” [...]
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