Two friends discuss relationships and other mysteries of life.
Posted in dating drama, men, relationships, women on Dec 1st, 2009
Tiffany, this is one of those areas where the memory of those needy…I mean, “Nice” guys that you have dated is so deeply etched into your brain that you project that behavior on other people and can’t see past it. You look for this pattern until you find it. You’ve accused me [...]
Posted in dating drama, men, relationships, women on Nov 30th, 2009
Mike, I can’t help thinking that maybe what these women you describe want is a man who is like you are as a friend . If you’re like most “nice” guys (and I have reason to believe you are), that person bears little or no resemblance to who you are in a relationship…or even when [...]
Posted in gender differences, men, women on Nov 28th, 2009
There seems to be a very thin line that separates lighthearted flirting from offensive sexual harassment. In the past, I had always assumed that the difference had more to do with who was doing the flirting and not what was actually said. However, a recent comment that I made in a public forum [...]
Posted in dating services, gender differences, men, online dating, women on Nov 25th, 2009
I mentioned in an earlier post that, despite my misgivings, I’d registered for an online dating service last month. I was a bit dismayed by many of the messages I received, but there was one in particular that struck me immediately and has become a sort of shorthand for all of the inappropriate comments strange [...]
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 gender differences, men, women on Nov 10th, 2009
I originally wanted to call this post “Lying Sucks”, but I figured that Mike had more or less conveyed that with his story about “Glitter”. There are vast differences of opinion on the issue of lying, but there doesn’t seem to be a gender divide. It seems to me more a question of character.
As Mike [...]
Posted in gender differences, men, women on Oct 28th, 2009
I’ve never bought into the whole “men and women communicate differently” thing. The only time I’ve ever run into that kind of problem has been when men tried to anticipate the right way to communicate with a woman and came up with something convoluted that bogged us all down.
I definitely agree that the message [...]
Posted in dating services, men, online dating on Oct 12th, 2009
Brat.
I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with meeting for coffee, and you know it. I’m talking about the significant number of men (maybe women do this, too–I never see their profiles, so I don’t know) who explicitly announce that they want to meet for coffee so as not to waste their time on someone [...]
Posted in Mike and Tiffany, men, online dating, relationships, women on Sep 23rd, 2009
I’m a middle aged single Dad, raising a teenage daughter who lives with me. I’m a Dad by choice but the single (and middle aged) part…not so much. So, finding time to meet women who are dating prospects is challenging. Online dating sites seemed to be the way to go. I [...]
Posted in Mike and Tiffany, men, online dating, relationships, women on Sep 21st, 2009
We were in the middle of an email exchange about relationships when my friend Mike said, “We should be having this conversation on a blog.” It was an obvious diversionary tactic, designed to distract me from the fact that he was Entirely Wrong About Women, but I took the bait anyway.
Dating can be tough, [...]
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