"I’m a little nervous when we apply financial terms when we’re talking about relationships." -- Kat Wilder on Return on Investment in Relationships

Mr. "Sex Me Up" wanted to know why I am still "open to other offers" so to speak when I can just utilise the "back up spouse". It's not so simple of course. There are the mental hurdles to cross ( ( Read more... )

My grandmother has been having heart problems lately. She was warded on Saturday night, placed under observation and released this morning. She felt sick again this evening and she's been admitted to a private hospital (public hospitals are only good for emergencies). They can't operate on her because of her other medical condition and she doesn't ( Read more... )

It's a bit weird when an ex-boyfriend whom you haven't spoken to for the past 7-8 years suddenly looks you up out of the blue. And after all those intervening years, you wonder what you saw in him to begin with.

For something so simple and fundamental, I was kind of surprised that the answer didn't come to me right away. Why is it easy to say 'no' to sales people but harder to do that to someone who shows an interest in me? On reflection, I think it's a problem that both men and women face. And both sexes are guilty of leading people on when they should ( Read more... )

So this is the story of my (dating) life: the guys I have absolutely no interest in keep asking me out and the ones I do have an interest in...don't. To be fair, I tend to neither encourage nor discourage someone and people can't read minds. The guy mentioned in a previous post, "Excuse Me, Are You Married?", has been texting me repeatedly over ( Read more... )

Interesting discussion topic on 
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From an email forward (the grammar is just atrocious):

A student ask a teacher, 'What is love?'

The teacher said, 'In order to answer your question, go to the padi field and choose the biggest padi and come back. But the rule is: you can go through them only once and cannot turn back to pick.

'The student went to the field, go thru first row, he saw ( Read more... )

Was having coffee with a friend the other day when a little kid of about 1 or 2 years old wandered over. S/he was smiling a toothy winsome smile at us and s/he had his/her arms outstretched.  At first we thought the child was curious about our things. After all, my friend had just gone shopping and he'd bought a number of toys. At my friend's ( Read more... )

A _male_ friend showed this to me:

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I feel like I've been drifting for quite a while and part of the problem was that I didn't have a written plan and set of goals. So I've started drafting up one. While mulling over some goals, my ever marriage minded mother suggested I make getting married one of them. It's a strange idea but it's up there in my list of goals now. I'm trying to ( Read more... )