Two friends discuss relationships and other mysteries of life.
Posted in dating drama, relationships on Jun 12th, 2010
I would assume that over fifty percent of all relationships end. I base this assumption on the divorce rate and the fact that not all relationships lead to marriage. So, at some point, someone decides that they want out. This is a tough area for me with my “I can make it work” [...]
Posted in dating books, dating services, online dating, relationships on Jun 6th, 2010
I don’t mean that you should know what you want in a partner or in a relationship; I definitely don’t advocate checklist-style mate-shopping. No, the idea that it’s important to know what you’re after–something that should have been a no-brainer but that I hadn’t consciously considered before–came to me while I was reading Lori Gottleib’s [...]
Posted in gender differences, relationships, speed dating on May 1st, 2010
In Tiffany’s post (which we’ll call bait) she claims that physical attraction may not be as important as we have been lead to believe. Of course, she makes this claim after “Carefully inspecting” photographs of sex symbols. If physical appearance is as unimportant as she claims, I have to wonder why lingerie and [...]
Posted in relationships, single parent dating on Apr 8th, 2010
In her recent post, Tiffany points out that the “friend zone” is a mythical place. Personally, I don’t think that the “friend zone” is a zone at all. I think it’s more of a place in time. It’s a page or even a chapter in our lives where we are simply not open to romantic [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, dating drama, relationships, women on Mar 21st, 2010
Recently, I entered into a bit of debate with my sister on my personal blog about the value of romantic delusions. Of course, “delusions” is my construction; she wasn’t actually arguing that delusions were valuable, but that what I termed “delusions” sometimes came true, if only for a moment. Even if girls who lived in [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, dating services, relationships on Mar 15th, 2010
One of my favorite lines from Steven Wright, “I put instant coffee in the microwave and actually went back in time”. I think it points out the absurdity of our own invention. We live in a world where faster is better. Who wants to wait five whole minutes for a pot of coffee to [...]
Posted in relationships on Feb 24th, 2010
Let’s face it, for many reasons, cheating sucks. Maybe not as much for the cheater as the one who is being cheated on but it still sucks. Cheating is a violation of trust and intimacy. It can leave the other partner feeling betrayed and, in some cases, inadequate.
I’ve heard it said that, “If [...]
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 dating services, relationships, women on Feb 19th, 2010
I’ve seen websites offering DVD’s that explain how to become a “player” and other sites offering stories and tips on how to pick up women. Isn’t this basically saying, “This is who you have to be to get this type of woman”? If you have to learn skills and techniques and study what [...]
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”.
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