Two friends discuss relationships and other mysteries of life.
Posted in dating drama, men, relationships, women on Dec 1st, 2009
That’s a nice spin you put on it, Mike, but you seem to forget that I was there. I did, in fact, “accuse” you of that same kind of suffocating behavior I mentioned in my last post. I think it was the night you called me complaining that the woman who had asked you for [...]
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 dating drama, relationships, women on Nov 30th, 2009
A lot of women say that they want a nice guy who treats them well but they don’t mean it. What they really want is that rebel bad boy who will make their life interesting because “If he loves me enough he will change”. It becomes a challenge for them to try to [...]
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 online dating, relationships, women on Nov 11th, 2009
Tiffany,
I can’t help but notice that some people have a difficult time making decisions in life if they are faced with too many choices. They delay the decision making process to carefully weight the pros and cons, putting off making a final decision in case something better comes along. Ultimately what ends up happening is [...]
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 relationships, women on Oct 20th, 2009
He was probably trying to be polite. Maybe he heard that women like coffee and I’m sure he has had women tell him, “You’re wasting my time”. I don’t think that he meant to say that it would be a waste of time to talk to a woman if it wasn’t going to [...]
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