Dating
Women Can Be More Choosy With Dates Than Men
Single women, I have good news and bad news for you. The good news: there's less competition in the dating pool for the man of your dreams than you probably thought. The bad?
Do You Think It's True That Men Love B*tches?
I've never read the book Why Men Love Bitches, but the title is pretty arresting, and having perused The Rules, He's Just Not That Into You, et al, I think I can probably construct the argument without it.
Basically, unless you're a challenge and make him work a little to show you he's worthy of your attention, you're a doormat, and a lot of men will take advantage of that. For example, you're not supposed to call the guy you like a lot (particularly at the beginning when you're just getting to know each other), you're not supposed to drop plans you had because he invited you out (duh!), and it's important you have your own life.
Word du Jour: Breakover
For some reason, the urge to wash that man (or woman) right out of your hair can also involve cutting or coloring your hair or getting a new shade of lipstick. Whatever it is you do, sometimes you need a breakover (breakup makeover).
Perhaps, you're declaring that you are a new person without the dead weight and splitting with your split ends symbolically represents that.
Word du Jour: Boss Lady
Perhaps it’s too early to reclaim a word that has yet to enter the lexicon the way “b*tch” did, but I would argue “boss lady” comes close.
It’s dating expert Rachel Greenwald’s word for a successful woman who doesn’t tone down her confident and opinionated self on dates. If you're a boss lady, according to Greenwald, it's the number one reason “he didn’t call you back.” (Oh, brother.)
The author of (you guessed it) Why He Didn’t Call You Back, interviewed thousands of apparently insecure men who told her this was the number-one type of woman they would never call back.
Love For Sale: Personal Ads From the 19th Century
It's not often a history dissertation warrants consideration outside a university, but Pam Epstein, a PhD candidate at Rutgers University, has turned hers into a blog worth blogging about. She's using old personal ads to explore love and marriage in mid-19th- to early-20th-century America, and has dug up some real gems — both the ads and the men. What I love is that instead having categories like "missed connections" or "casual encounters," they have "matrimony."
The Harsh Truth About Craigslist Missed Connections
Have you ever spied your dream lover in the frozen food section of Trader Joe's but were too shy to start a conversation or flirt? Maybe you were moved to post a prose poem on Craigslist's oddball "Missed Connections" section, writing to that person in the hopes that they would read your true feelings, remember who the hell you were, and contact you.
Still don't understand what Missed Connections is?
How Do You Let Someone Know That You’re Interested in Him?
If someone came up to you and asked, "Hey, wanna make out?" unless you were a little cuckoo in the cabeza, more than likely you'd look at him funny and back away. Men might like it, though, because at least you'd be unambiguous.
Have Hookups Triumphed Over Dating?
The hookup is spreading! First high school students were too cool to attach a relationship to sex. Then college students followed the trend.
Do You Play Games When Texting or Calling Back?
There are so many silly dating games that people play in order not to look too eager or worse, desperate. I knew a married woman who carried her playing hard to get into her marriage! I was shocked when she told me that she never, ever called her husband; she waited for him to call her and took her sweet time getting back to him.
Do Tell: What Is the Last Thing a Man Did to Win You Over?
"Whatever happened to a boyfriend?
The kind of guy who tries to win you over
Whatever happened to a boyfriend?
The kind of guy who makes love 'cause he’s in it
I want a boyfriend, I want a boyfriend
I want all that stupid old shit,
Like letters and soda."
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