Talk About Sex?

Mid-week question for all y’all: Where did you get most of your sex education? Perhaps more importantly, where do you think people should get sex ed from? Should there be more or less talk about it? It’s always a hotly debated topic at school boards and among religious and secular folks. I’m curious what my [...]

Forward or Sideways?

Last year, I mused a bit about the usual need for an endgame in the initial stages of a relationship. That spawned some interesting discussion and, in the past twelve months, has been a near constant point of wonder in my own interactions. Every time I have one of those metro crushes or other passing [...]

Out and About

Getting some good answers about your time lines for dating->relationship definitions via the various places these posts show up. Next week, I’ll aggregate all the answers… so keep ‘em coming. Today, since I’m still far from my normal stomping grounds and just subjected myself to a couple of hours in a more or less typical [...]

What’s Your Time Line?

I’m off on a business trip this week, so long posts are going to have to wait. Of course, that doesn’t mean that things don’t come up in conversation. It was one of those things raised in a conversation today that made me want to know: How long do you wait between interest/crush and asking [...]

Sorting Into Bins

One of the initial concepts I put forward when I started this blog was the idea of seven types of crushes. Since then, I’ve only really explored a few of them with their own posts. The list, as it stands now is: The Grown Up Crush The Puppy Love Crush The Hot Crush The Obsessive [...]

20-minute Metro Crush (May 16/17 Edition)

I didn’t see her get on the train because of the inebriated college kids bouncing around, taking swigs of Bailey’s being offered by the Hispanic guy they almost got into a fight with. Between the posturing and half-hearted restraint, I caught a glimpse of her. She was half a train car away, cozy in the [...]

Hump Day Crush: Ask Yourself Why

The important question is “Why?” Why are you interested in getting into a relationship? Why are you in a relationship now? Why do you stay in this relationship? Is it for her? Or him? Or you? Is it because “that’s just what people do?” Why do you do what you’re doing? If you can’t honestly [...]

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