Advice
Should I tell her how I feel?
Picture this: you’re going about your business one day when a stranger approaches you. He seems nice enough, average-looking at best, and smiles.
“I’m sorry to bother you,” he says, “but I just need to tell you how wonderful I think you are. You’re absolutely stunning and I love your style. Seriously, every day I see [...]
TOP FIVE
Chandler: Well, we have a deal where we each get to pick five different celebrities that we can sleep with, and the other one can’t get mad.
Ross: Ah, the heart of every healthy relationship: Honesty, respect, and sex with celebrities.
Monica: So, Chandler… who’s on your list?
Chandler: Uh, Kim Basinger, Cindy Crawford, Halle Berry, Yasmine [...]
Making a game of the goal
When you’re single, dating seems like a game with a single goal: to find a partner. And when you focus on that single goal, it seems rather daunting. What if you had some other goals to focus on instead? Here’s a few ideas for switching up your dating regime:
Create a “yes” time. A “yes” time [...]
Debunking “When Harry Met Sally . . . ”
Can men and women be platonic friends? Whenever I get into conversations on this topic, someone usually brings up the movie, When Harry Met Sally . . . (1998). This film is an icon for making a case that men and women cannot be platonic friends. The protagonist, Harry Burns argues,
men and women can’t be [...]
Sex School
“I am sitting on the floor with 18 other women… taking a class on how to give a good hand job.”
Now THAT is how you start an article.
A friend just forwarded me the article “What I Learned in Sex School” and wanted to share some of the tantalizing tidbits I’ve taken from it, so that [...]
Online Dating: Google ‘em
In the past 5 yrs I’ve done a lot of online dating. My sister and one of my closest friends both found their husbands online, and they’ve been married for some time now. To those who are skeptical, I often hear: “Oh, but how do you know they are who they say they are?”
Hey, [...]
What should I do?
Typically my posts are all about giving advice and insights, so I thought it would be interesting to turn things around and ask you, dear readers, for advice. You may recall my mentioning of a certain someone who occupies my thoughts way more than I would like. The short story is that I finally got [...]
Surviving The Awkward First Kiss
Potted Plant’s latest article “The First Kiss” reminded me how critical that moment is during the dating process. The first kiss sets the tone for the possibility of anything thereafter. Some men are great at flirting and creating sexual tension, then smoothly transition into that first kiss. Others, as Potted Plant illustrated, ill at flirtation takes a bad situation and make [...]
The Non-Breakup Breakup
So you’ve been on just one date with the person so far. Or maybe traded some emails and phone calls and that’s it. And now you’re no longer interested - yet the other person still is. How do you let that person down?
It’s not really a breakup, because you two aren’t officially “going out.” But [...]
The First Kiss
I have a friend who seems to have the most awkward first kisses. No matter what he does, his first kisses always end up being weird. Car kiss, weird couch kiss, doorstep fumble. He just can’t seem to get it right. As much as I laugh at him, I kind of feel sorry for him.
So [...]
