Posted in romance on Apr 7th, 2011
Last night I was kicking it old school and watching an 80’s classic Some Kind of Wonderful.
In this film, Keith Nelson played by Eric Stoltz has a crush on Amanda Jones played by Lea Thompson. He manages to get her to go out with him. On their first date, he takes her [...]
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Posted in dating books, online dating on Feb 8th, 2011
I was recently forwarded a question regarding proper etiquette for calling someone whom you met on an online dating site. It seems the woman who asked the question was wondering why the men she meets online expect her to call them. The answer is simple. In fact, there was an entire book [...]
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A few months ago, a friend at work sent me a link to a blog post called “Does This Law Degree Make My Ass Look Fat?” In a nutshell, the author suggested that men really don’t want to date attractive, successful women who have it all together and are self-sufficient. They require, in her words, [...]
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Posted in dating drama, romance, women on Dec 9th, 2010
Keep him waiting: Don’t be ready when he shows up to take you out to dinner, it makes you seem desperate. Besides, you want to give him a realistic idea of what it will be like to be married to you. Take control early on and show him that it actually is all [...]
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Posted in relationships on Nov 7th, 2010
“If you don’t love yourself, you can’t love anyone else”. That saying meant nothing to me until I experienced it first hand. At a time in my life when I had closed myself off from the world and had unknowingly become desperate, I met someone. Someone who I thought I had fallen [...]
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Posted in dating books, dating drama on Oct 10th, 2010
With Halloween approaching, I’m hearing people talk about what they are going to be for this occasion. I can’t help but to draw an analogy about how some people act on a date. On the radio today, I even heard Paul McKenna promoting his new book Instant Confidence. He was giving advice [...]
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Posted in romance on Sep 19th, 2010
When I read Tiffany’s post about what makes a kiss memorable, I was surprised to find that I agree with her but for different reasons. For me, it’s the unknown that makes a kiss memorable. The kisses that stand out in my mind are the ones that I never expected. In a [...]
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Posted in relationships on Aug 24th, 2010
I’m almost certain that Tiffany held back on her post about the “alleged” ten reasons that you shouldn’t date (Or, as I like to call it, “How the Grinch stole dating”). I’m sure she can think of way more than ten. Like, Your date happens to fall on a day that ends with the [...]
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Posted in dating drama on Aug 14th, 2010
“It’s not you, it’s me”. That has the stigma of being a lie used to let someone down easily. But there may be a lot more truth to that classic line than you realize. Breaking up is typically not easy. At least not for the person who is being dumped. The person [...]
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Sometimes Mike and I seem to be speaking two very different languages, but I don’t think it’s because he uses blue type and I use pink. I think it’s just that we’re two very different people with very different ideas about things. Today, I encountered one of those differences that proves that differing views don’t [...]
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