Failure and Success: Telling Someone About the Crush (Part I)

So I’ve talked about how to tell someone you have a crush on them and why you’d want to do that. I figure now it’s time I share a couple of stories from my own life. One when things went pretty darn wrong and another where they went considerably better. A Failure to Understand Back [...]

Falling and Missing the Ground

High school and middle school were tough for me. Or, at least, for the person I was then. Toughened and nearly defeated by four years of mostly total (“No I will not go out with you. Please go away.”) and partial rejection (“Oh the movies, right, uh, sure I’ll go with you, but my friend [...]

Hump Day Crush: Half the Story

Nearly 15 years ago, right at the end of my first year of college, I met this wonderful girl. We met at a very outdoorsy community service project my service group was working on. She was a friend of a friend and had spent most of the day trudging through the underbrush on the other [...]

Hump Day Crush: Dating and Timing

Relationships are part of a vast plan for our enlightenment… —Marianne Williamson In high school, I attempted to go on a few dates. By most standards, none of those attempts were successful. By the time I got to college, I fel a lot less pressure about dating and tried to get things going more often. [...]

Lessons Learned: That Green Eyed Monster

My years at college were very busy by just about any standard. A lot of things were started. But one of the most painful and educational things that happened that year started the summer before I left for school. And it started in New Orleans. Between my last year of high school and my first [...]

Lessons Learned: Your Buddies and Your Crushes

Yep. I’m back on a slight relationship thinking track again. I think I’ll blame this one on seeing The 40 Year Old Virgin (which, if you haven’t seen it yet, you should–especially if you’re a guy). Or, maybe, I’ll just point to the fact that Friends and the lessons I’ve learned in the past are [...]

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