Two friends discuss relationships and other mysteries of life.
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 dating drama, relationships on Nov 14th, 2009
I met this guy who was funny and charming and cute. He made me laugh and smile and I just felt comfortable around him. His thick outer shell and edgy sense of humor made it hard for me to get close to him as quickly as I would have liked so I moved [...]
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 [...]
Posted in gender differences, single parent dating on Nov 10th, 2009
Generally, I think that the challenges parents face are similar, and that most of the differences between mothers and fathers are the result of artificial social constructs. But Mike’s most recent post about dating as a single parent has me thinking about the differences that exist purely by virtue of our gender.
I’ve always had [...]
Posted in online dating, relationships on Nov 4th, 2009
As I logged into my email account I discovered a gentle reminder of my online dating past. I have a few contacts who I struggle to remember and I should probably simply delete. These are the women who, for whatever reason, I am no longer in contact with. At some point we must have thought [...]
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 [...]
Posted in dating services, online dating, relationships on Oct 8th, 2009
It seems to me that if I were truly “jaded” I would have a more pessimistic outlook of online dating. I wouldn’t be so quick to point out that wanting to meet for a cup of coffee is superficial and shallow. Actually, it sounds like a good approach to me (No, that’s not [...]
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