#1 Pure laziness.
When it comes to doing things the easy way, men are highly skilled experts. Dating a woman who already has small children is the TV dinner version the American dream. Men don’t want to spend 24 hours simmering a pot roast when Swanson makes a “Hungry-Man” meal that’s ready in minutes. [...]
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As Mike pointed out, it is true that most of us form relationships with people we come in regular contact with. That’s not just romantic relationships, but friendships and business relationships as well. There are many reasons for this: familiarity breeds comfort; often we’re in the same place as others on a regular basis because [...]
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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 gender differences on Aug 15th, 2010
It seems to be, what I like to call “Swooning season”. That’s not the time of year where people hunt for “swoons”. It’s a time when single people look to step up their game, date more (or simply date). There’s more flirting, approaching and dating going on. I’ve noticed that I [...]
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Posted in relationships on Jun 22nd, 2010
Probably in response to my “Know What You Want” post, Mike aptly pointed out that many people…just don’t. I definitely can’t disagree with that. I think that very few of us are clear on exactly what we want all of the time, and it’s certainly subject to change. For example, when I was in my twenties I [...]
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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 [...]
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