I went for a long bike ride today and cut my leg on the chainring. So, when I’m not changing the dressing on my puncture wounds, I’m lying around watching The Tudors on Netflix, resting my sore muscles. Clearly, not a day to write a long post!
Where, exactly, is the friend zone? Here it is, [...]
Archive for June, 2009
Lazy Sunday links
Posted in Dating, Friends, Links on June 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Mailbag: On going back to an ex and letting bad dates down easy
Posted in Breakups, Dating, Letters to CHO, Relationships on June 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I always love when I get letters from readers. It makes me feel like people actually trust my opinion. Here are two recent ones!
Letter #1:
I need advice on a situation I’m in. I have been seeing this guy for 6 years and I broke up with him recently because I was unhappy. I don’t see [...]
Spread the joy!
Posted in Friends, Links, Physical appearance, Self-Help on June 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Blogger Caitlin at Healthy Tipping Point started a great site called Operation Beautiful, where women write encouraging anonymous notes to other women and leave them in public places. Women can be so catty to each other, and so unsure about themselves. We need to help each other out!
Anyway, head to Operation Beautiful for a quick [...]
Introducing a new periodic feature…
Posted in Don't Be This Guy/Girl, Talking to Strangers, Working the Room on June 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Don’t be this guy/girl
As the mood strikes me, I’ll wax poetic on some of the characters one could encounter during their dating adventures. I’ll start off with one I witnessed last night.
Don’t be this guy: The Dance Floor Hoverer
I was at a friend’s birthday party. The guests: a mixed group of guys and girls in [...]
People who live in glass houses, etc.
Posted in Self-Help on June 17, 2009 | 2 Comments »
This blog has not only resulted in my dispensing a lot of dating advice, it has led me to read up on the subject quite a bit. I did something similar the last time I was job hunting — I read all the career blogs and articles I could find, and some gave pretty radical [...]
I stopped wearing my iPod on public transit
Posted in Talking to Strangers on June 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s why: No one’s going to try to strike up a conversation with me if I’m zoned out listening to music! Besides, it makes you a better target for muggers.
When I stopped listening to music on the train, suddenly I noticed how annoying it is when attractive guys have earbuds in. They might check me [...]
When you like everything about them, except the way that they look
Posted in Dating, Physical appearance on June 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Reader Deena had the experience where she met a guy through Twitter. They exchanged photos, chatted often, and she grew to have a pretty big crush on him, except for one tiny detail. She didn’t find him physically attractive. Worried about whether or not she might be leading him on, she wrote to me to [...]
The concentric circle theory of friendship
Posted in Friends on June 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Sort of like how people have the Ladder Theory to determine if they’ll just be platonic friends or friends with the possibility of more, I have my own ladder theory when it comes to weighing how close of a friend you’ll be with someone. It’s really more of a concentric circle theory (but is unrelated [...]
Stuff I can’t flesh out into full posts
Posted in Dating, Ettiquette, Friends, Links, Miscellaneous Advice, Self-Help on June 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Be cheap about it
I got this link from psuacoustician: Dating on a Budget: To Eat or Not to Eat? Basically, it discusses how expensive dining out with dates can be if you do it very often. Think of creative and cheap dates!
Or, you could just guarantee they won’t want to go out with you again…
…by [...]
