Shared Experiences
It pays to be prepared
Second date. Still not entirely sure what the mutual understanding of the crowd in regards to sex. Three dates has always been what I’ve heard, though in my life, that’s rarely happened. Seven dates? Maybe. Longer than that and you risk losing the person…or so they say. I had only been out with this girl [...]
Awkward mating rituals
This is a guest post contributed by Erin Whitehead. Erin is a featured writer for the online dating site onlinedatingsites.net and a comedian and improviser in Los Angeles. You can follow her on Twitter at @girlwithatail.
So I’m driving through Hollywood checking out a billboard for yet another show about beautiful people coping with terrible things, [...]
Issues? What issues?
When we’re single, we want a relationship. When we’re in a relationship–an incompatible one, that is–we want to be single. Never satisfied, it’s easy to miss what’s really wrong in the picture.
I’m what the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator would refer to as “Perceiving.” Basically, that means that I’m comfortable in a state of indecision. To those [...]
Sometimes, they just don’t know
So you’ve been reading this blog, perhaps other dating sites and books, trying to pick up on subtle hints that someone is interested in you. You’ve read about indicators of interest (IOI), the subconscious actions that give away a person’s romantic attraction. You’ve mastered listening to the words that someone else is saying and finding [...]
emotional REAL estate
Robyn just posted a recent sonogram as her FaceBook photo. I decide to ring her and we meet for an impromptu picnic in the park. Something we both have shirked since I left the firm we sold our souls for. It was high time for some herbal Honest Teas, huge hoagies from Saigon Sandwiches coupled [...]
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 [...]
A Good Man is Not That Hard to Find
Reposted from GoodMenBook.org (November 18, 2009)
My mother used to pressure me to settle down. “Get married,” she pestered. In spite of this being the modern world and all, it’s still not as easy for a woman to get a husband as it is for a man to get a wife. And I [...]
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. [...]
