Two friends discuss relationships and other mysteries of life.
Posted in relationships on Dec 17th, 2009
I’ll never forget the day that my lawyer friend came to help me on a construction project I was doing. He was completely out of his element but also willing to learn and a very quick study. It was a good experience for him and I’m sure he got more exercise than he normally does at the [...]
Posted in dating drama, relationships on Dec 14th, 2009
Of course, she just wasn’t that into me. But, the reason for that is what I think is the more interesting part. I wasn’t what she was used to. She wasn’t used to being around someone who didn’t “need” her for something. She didn’t know what to do with that. How do you feel [...]
Posted in dating drama, men, women on Dec 7th, 2009
I heard an advertisement on the radio today that fell in line with what Tiffany is trying to encourage people to believe. The Ad had a woman talking about raising her kids and said something like, “Even the big one I call my husband”. This is part of the common view that I am trying [...]
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 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 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 on Nov 23rd, 2009
In Mike’s last post, he questioned whether love was really love if it went unreturned. It’s a question I’ve heard debated many times, but I think it’s a silly one. Love isn’t dependent on getting what you want; love is the opposite of “what’s in it for me?”
I think this question is a reflection of [...]
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 [...]
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