Two friends discuss relationships and other mysteries of life.
Posted in men, relationships, women on Aug 13th, 2010
One thing I like about Mike’s latest post is that he unwittingly concedes my point on an earlier issue. I love when that happens, and am always vigilant for inadvertant concessions. Some time ago, I wrote that there was no such thing as the “friend zone“. By that I meant that all of the efforts [...]
Posted in dating drama, friend zone, men on Apr 4th, 2010
We’ve been getting comments from men asking for advice on avoiding the “friend zone”, and I’ve got good news for them. You’re not doing anything wrong. There’s no such thing as the “friend zone”. At least, not in the sense that men seem to dread it, as a big black hole waiting to swallow up [...]
Posted in dating drama, men, relationships, women on Feb 23rd, 2010
Don’t get me wrong. I like womanizers. Of course, most women enjoy them in the moment–if we didn’t, they wouldn’t be so successful. Hell, we wouldn’t have a name for them. But the tide turns. Womanizers don’t stay. And then a lot of women get angry that the man hasn’t kept all those promises he [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, men, relationships, women on Feb 18th, 2010
What I didn’t know was that full-grown adults–not college kids in their early twenties with one foot in their parents’ homes but thirty-something professionals with careers and condos and supposed lives of their own–were still looking to their friends to hold up numerical scores while their dates “performed”.
Posted in gender differences, men on Feb 15th, 2010
Tiffany’s post about the gender differences playing a role in single parenting reminded me of what I admit is obviously lacking in raising my daughter, first hand experience. I grew up having three older sisters, a mother and…later in life… I had a wife for nine years. I knew from listening what it [...]
Posted in men, relationships on Feb 14th, 2010
Men seem to see competition everywhere. Maybe it’s in their genes; maybe on some deep, subconscious level they’re always barefoot and sweaty in an amphitheater somewhere hoping their chain mail holds out.
But the reality is that to be in competition with someone, you have to be chasing the same goal–and that’s something men seem [...]
Posted in gender differences, men, relationships, women on Dec 9th, 2009
Oh, come on, Mike. We all know you can read. And most of us are pretty sure you don’t really think that saying sometimes a person is too worn out and stretched too thin to enjoy socializing is the same as promoting the idea that being married is like having an extra child. That’s not [...]
Posted in dating drama, men, women on Dec 7th, 2009
I heard an advertisement on the radio today that fell in line with what Tiffany is trying to encourage people to believe. The Ad had a woman talking about raising her kids and said something like, “Even the big one I call my husband”. This is part of the common view that I am trying [...]
Posted in men, relationships, women on Dec 6th, 2009
I’m a little bored with Mike’s efforts to justify clinging to bad relationship after bad relationship (and after reading my email this evening, I think some of you are, too), so I’m going to circle back and address something he mentioned a while back that got lost in the shuffle: the idea that women “should” [...]
Posted in dating drama, men, relationships, women on Dec 5th, 2009
We make decisions based on the information that we have. When that information is a lie, it skews the decisions that we make. A woman who I had been dating for a couple months told me that she needed space. She said that she was feeling overwhelmed and didn’t know if she wanted [...]
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