Two friends discuss relationships and other mysteries of life.
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 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 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 relationships on Nov 24th, 2009
I am a hopeless romantic at heart and, at the moment, I am feeling a bit jaded. But failure after failure leads me to this point where I simply sit back and think, “My God, it shouldn’t be this hard”. I don’ t think that I am asking for too much by any [...]
Posted in dating drama, relationships, single parent dating on Nov 20th, 2009
No, I’m not talking about the “right place, right time” sort of timing. I’m talking about realistic expectations about the development of a relationship. Mike’s written two posts recently that contained passing references to time frames that twisted my brain into knots. One was his attempt at getting inside a woman’s head [...]
Posted in relationships, single parent dating on Nov 19th, 2009
As parents we don’t enjoy the same freedoms as single people who don’t have children, We have more to think about than our own feelings when it comes to dating. If you share the excitement of your new date with your children then you will probably end up sharing your misery if things [...]
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 relationships on Nov 13th, 2009
I find that I am unreasonably bothered by those reality television shows where one person will date twenty members of the opposite sex and narrow it down each week until they find “The one”. It’s an absurd concept that has no practical purpose in the real world.
Sure, there are people who do this, [...]
Posted in dating services, online dating, relationships on Nov 12th, 2009
Mike, I think this whole “too many choices” thing takes us right back to the issue of how we look at other people. You’ve made the argument in favor of weeding people out in advance, but I think that’s the very same mentality that leads people to think of one another as “choices” rather than [...]
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 [...]
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