Life, Love and Online Dating

You may recall that I’m not a big fan of online dating.  I did sign up for an online dating service once, about the same time that we started this blog, and with a lot of fortitude and chanting of “give it a chance…give it a chance…” under my breath, I was able to hold out [...]

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In his last post, Mike said, “But, if you are simply filling a void with fantasy it makes no sense to me that the fantasy has to be a real person.”  I guess he’s right, but that’s a big conditional.  I think what his statement really means is that he and I differ about something [...]

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A crush is fun and can inspire us to live better.  I noticed that I have a tendency to develop crushes on fiction characters.   One of my longest lasting crushes is Dorothy Boyd from the movie Jerry Maguire.   It’s not necessarily any physical characteristic that draws me in, it’s her personality quirks and [...]

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I think Mike’s undecided.  I say that because so often his post titles and opening paragraphs reflect one point of view and his final paragraph seems to reach the entirely opposite conclusion.  He says games have a higher success rate, but just a few paragraphs later questions how pretending to be something you’re not can [...]

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I’m from Chicago, but years ago I spent an entire summer in Georgia.  A few things stand out in my mind from that summer–the steam rising off the sidewalks after a rain, the sun hanging in the sky until after 9 p.m., the view from the balcony of the hotel on the corner…and the infreakingterminable [...]

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I cause a bit of confusion and find myself at a bit of a disadvantage when it comes to most human interactions.  Here’s where I go “wrong”:  I say what I mean.  What’s worse, I never really think to consider (despite ample experience) that people will listen to what I’ve said, make up something that [...]

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Something very strange occurred to me as I was leaving the store.  I realized that I had just gone into the store, picked up a few items, paid for them and didn’t speak a single word to anyone.  With automated checkout lines, this is now possible.  Human interaction is slowly becoming a thing of the [...]

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The truth is, everything is a relationship.  It’s always troubled me a bit that “relationship” has been co-opted to apply to long-term romantic relationships when in fact every human interaction is a relationship of some sort.  We have relationships with the people we work with, family, friends, even the UPS guy who stops in every [...]

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I woke up this morning thinking about a man. That’s been happening lately, in a soft-focus kind of way that makes me smile.  I’ll think about his smile, something he’s said to me; I’ll wonder what he’s doing in that moment.  I enjoy crushes, which makes it rather sad or ironic that I’m not prone [...]

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We’ve all been affected by the economy in some way.   Some of us are harder hit than others.   It seems that the “norm” in times like this is to “wait and see”.  But, when the hope that something will change begins to fade, it’s time to adopt a new way of thinking.   [...]

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