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How to Deal with Rejection - A Guide on How to Reject People Properly
Often times we find ourselves in a situation where we do not share mutual feelings of interest with a potential suitor. Once we have realized our disinterest, we may have some negative feelings towards the person. These feelings will continue to grow as the unwanted suitor carries on assuming nothing is wrong because you have not voiced your ( Read more... ) -
The "E" Effect, The Bachelor, and Dating in the Real World
In every relationship, we always want that "e" effect. What "e" effect am I referring to? Should we all start dropping ecstasy to get this great feeling?
No, I am not talking about the "e" you find at raves! Rather, I am referring to the feeling of happiness, excitement and butterflies when thinking about or seeing your special someone -- that ( Read more... ) -
Dating & Job Hunting - Two Things I Don't Particularly Enjoy Doing!
I've recently discovered that dating is a lot like job hunting. They can both be tedious, require lots of time and effort, and can cause stress and anxiety. They are both things that we need to do in order to get what we want, whether a job or a significant other. Here are some parallels I've found between dating and job hunting:
GETTING AN ( Read more... ) -
Dating Fail Chronicle #3948719 - Making a Connection
According to my former roommate (who happens to read a lot of books and articles about love and relationships), every person is compatible with 4 out of every 1000 people. This means 1 out of 250, which also equates to 0.004 - not even one percent. Actually, that’s not even HALF a percent!! What the f*ck? Now how the hell are we supposed to meet ( Read more... ) -
General Update/How to Be a Good Listener
As many of you know, I’ve been sick the past week with a cold/flu and bronchitis. Being sick in itself already sucks. Being sick and alone sucks even more, when all you want to do is lay in bed and have someone take care of you. When your body feels like jelly, your temperature is never just right, and you’re coughing almost as much as you’re ( Read more... ) -
What Women (and Men) Want
The Implications of Attraction
Men seem to often ponder the age old question of “what do women want?” If this question could be easily answered, then it’d save multitudes of men and women a great deal of headache and frustration.
Simultaneously, women are trying to figure out what men want. Though men are supposedly simple creatures ( Read more... ) -
Plenty of Fish or Plenty of FAIL??
Plenty of Fish or Plenty of FAIL??
A Rant on Practicality & Dating
Are you looking for Mr. Perfect? Well step away sista’, cause he’s mine!!!
Yeah, right. In reality, we are not the only ones looking for Mr. Perfect - 3,257,392,573,927,593.5 other women (and some men) are also looking for him too! Thus Mr. Perfect has many, many, ( Read more... ) -
Relationships & Opportunity Cost
The Next Best Alternative - Is there someone better out there?
In economics, opportunity cost is defined as the cost of an alternative that must be forgone in order to pursue a certain action.
There fore, if you are pursuing Person A, the opportunity cost may be Person B, who you could be pursuing instead.
However, you could also ( Read more... ) -
How Relationships Are Investments
A Rant on Why Dating Sucks :)
Do you ever wish you could just meet your dream significant other (soulmate?), magically fall in love with each other instantly and then BAM! Long term relationship and time to get married. Done deal. Easy breezy beautiful, like a Covergirl ad.
Too bad real relationships take way more work than we'd like. We can't all ( Read more... ) -
How To Pick Up Girls
How to Pick Up Girls
A Guide on What NOT to Do
Disclaimer: The following are merely my thoughts & opinions and in no way reflect the opinions of general society, so don’t take it too seriously. Thanks. =)
Think you’re original? Think again! Women are not stupid. (Okay, sometimes they can be but let’s just assume they’re not.) Men need to ( Read more... )