The Perfect First-Date Guide: Planning
A first date makes or breaks the way a woman perceives you. Do well and she’ll be counting days to your next meeting; screw up and you get no second chance. Now imagine you’re out with a gorgeous girl....
View ArticleDon’t Be Yourself; Be Someone Better
“Just be yourself.” This is something people hear often – children from parents, adults from friends, readers from books and magazines. Well, how’s that working out for you? Are you living the life you...
View ArticleHow to Find an Amazing Girl
“There’s someone amazing out there for everyone.” I say this all the time but nobody believes me. I understand: most guys can’t even meet a nice girl, let alone an amazing one. But in a world of 7...
View ArticleHow to Handle Relationships Like a Man: A Crash Course
My parents were both 22 when my father proposed; they’d known each other for just a few weeks. They got married shortly after and have stayed that way for over two decades. Until recently, such stories...
View ArticleAre You Destroying Your Self-Esteem?
Do you feel inferior to other people? Do you criticize yourself a little too much? Do you struggle with indecisiveness, fear and a weird desire to please everyone? If you answered “yes,” “yes” and...
View ArticleHate Dealing With Douchebags? 3 Ways to Put Jerks in Their Place
You’ve met The Douchebag before. He’s the guy who tries to tool you in front of a hot girl. The guy who picks fights at clubs for no good reason. The pompous, arrogant asshole you hate and want to...
View ArticleHow to Date Turkish People the Right Way
It is hard to find a better way to discover new horizons, meet new people, taste new flavors of romance and relationships than dating. It is a wonderful way to meet someone with different views,...
View ArticleWhy Most People Never Get Anywhere
A girl I know hired a dating coach because she wasn’t satisfied with the men who asked her out. 2 weeks later, she “fired” him. In her own words, “he sucked – he wanted me to change and it made me feel...
View ArticleHeartbreak Is A Choice. Here’s How Not To Make It.
The day my ex and I broke up, I didn’t feel much. A month later, I was doing my morning stretches. Suddenly, my body went limp and I felt something warm and wet rolling down my face: tears. For the...
View ArticleWhy You’re Not Connecting With People – and What To Do About It
Outside of friends and family, people don’t often “get” each other. When two people do connect, they usually end up being friends or lovers – mutual understanding is that rare and valuable. I blame...
View ArticleIs Your Ego Killing You?
Being narcissistic isn’t just bad for social relationships. Having an ego could kill you. In a study released earlier some time ago, researchers found that certain types of narcissism can lead to...
View ArticleIf Growing Up Means Not Enjoying Life, Count Me Out.
At about four weeks shy of my 29th birthday, I never imagined I’d still be considered “young and idealistic.” But that’s exactly what a friend called me in an e-mail where I listed some “dream” jobs of...
View ArticleMoney Changes Everything: Can You Put a Price on Passion?
In her awkward, somewhat raspy voice, singer Cyndi Lauper made popular the line, “money changes everything,” in her 1983 “She’s So Unusual” album release. While the song might be nothing more than a...
View ArticleRomance: Too Much to Ask For?
I think that’s one of my least favorite phrases in the English language. It declares defeat before you’ve even tried to succeed. And very rarely, if ever, do we manage not to hope. Even in the most...
View ArticleHey, Workaholic: Are You Destroying Your Relationships?
Are you like me and feel as if work sometimes consumes your life? Whether you’re replying to e-mails at midnight after working 15 hours that day, taking and making work phone calls on weekends, or...
View ArticleIs Your Relationship Worth Saving?
“How much real time are you willing to put into saving a relationship?” I had asked this question at a college where I was a guest speaker on a forum discussing couples and relationships. A young...
View ArticleFalling Out of Love
Your heart races, your palms sweat; being together is almost unbearable. The way your body feels is indescribable. You can’t sleep, you won’t eat, and all you do is think about your relationship day...
View ArticlePlaying Sports with Your Partner
I’m really competitive…Scratch that. I’m overly competitive. My friends don’t even like playing Scrabble with me. I’ve played sports since I could crawl. In fact, when I was a baby, my mom entered me...
View ArticleIs Lasting Love a Thing of the Past?
Last week my parents celebrated a major milestone that fewer and fewer couples seem to be reaching: Their 30th wedding anniversary. That kind of milestone is no small feat — especially in an era of the...
View ArticleThe Guy’s Guide to Booty Call Texts That Work
Before the advent of text messaging, a guy was prone to drunk-dialing a woman after stumbling home from a crowded bar, desperately trying (and often failing) to persuade her that he wasn’t that drunk,...
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