About Zack Taylor
I'm a 30 year old software engineer who has always been interested in social interaction. As a former actor, I spent a lot of time trying to understand where people are coming from and what causes them to act in certain ways. My dating life has consisted mostly of serious relationships, as I find the challenge of finding a companion much more interesting than the challenge of finding a date. I'm often found giving dating advice to friends and family as well as reading up on social interaction, psychology, and spirituality. You can follow me on Twitter via @zack_taylor.
Posts From Zack Taylor:
Book review: How to Find a Woman…or Not
Imagine that you have an older divorced buddy who decided to throw himself into the world of dating. Imagine the same buddy going up on stage and delivering a comedy/advice show all about his dating adventures to you and all of your friends. If you can imagine that scenario, then you’ve imagined Gary Morgenstein’s new [...]
The talk
There’s a fairly small number of reasons that relationships end. Well, there seem to be a lot of different ways to end relationships, but they all boil down to three things in my mind:
There’s someone else. Whether that means someone actually cheated or not is irrelevant; interest in someone else usually leads to the end [...]
Introducing the Dating Thoughts Community
It’s been a couple of years since we started Dating Thoughts, and we’ve met some incredible people through comments on the various blog posts. One post in particular, I’m tired of being single, has become a story around which an entire community has appeared. Apparently the sentiments of that post struck a deep chord with [...]
The suddenness of love
Summer: “One day I woke up and I just knew.”
Tom: “Knew what?”
Summer: “What I was never sure of when I was with you.”
This heart-wrenching scene from the indy hit 500 Days of Summer truly delivers the crushing honesty of love: it is sudden, both in its arrival and its departure. We’re meant to feel sorry [...]
The dream
I was in a large, bright apartment for a party. The floor was a light bamboo and the furniture was all white. A feeling of spirituality resonated throughout. As I moved through the party I came to notice her, my ex. In that moment, everyone else at the party disappeared and it was just her [...]
The waiting game
I find myself in this same situation so frequently that it drives me slightly crazy. I meet a girl and things seemingly go great during that initial conversation. I get her number and leave with a good feeling. Then I give her a call and she doesn’t pick up, so I leave a phone message. [...]
The direct approach
We guys spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to approach girls. We try to think of witty and/or interesting things to say that will get her to talk to us and, hopefully, go out with us. Yes, we’ve all been caught in that moment of terror where we can’t think of [...]
Wanting more
We have this problem, collectively, as human beings: we don’t like things to stay the same. I mean, part of us loves it when things stay the same, but sameness brings only contentment and not happiness. Sameness brings order into a chaotic world, allows us to avoid re-making the same decision over and over again, [...]
Learn from master seducers
“I’m sorry, I need to get going now.”
She looked at me with such sadness in her eyes. We had just met, but the feeling was hard to shake. She really, really wanted me to stay.
“No,” she muttered, “stay!”
She grabbed my hand with a grip only taught by kung-fu masters. I reconsidered my position…do I really [...]
Get hitched? Check…
My high school English teacher once told the class how he met his wife. The girls in the class had convinced him to tell the story after word got out that it was unique. He went on to tell us how he was at a church function sitting next to a girl he had never [...]
