Tweet Flirting was one of those things that always mystified me. I was always too dense to notice when it was directed at me and too nervous to carry any out growing up. In college, I was just getting the hang of flirting when I ended up in back-to-back long-ish relationships. (Still too dense to… Continue reading Wink-Wink, Nudge-Nudge, Grin
Tag: Relationships
Handle Your Baggage
Tweet Last time, I talked a bit about figuring out what you bring to the table in a relationship. That focused mostly on your particular self-image and how much you can give when you get involved with someone else. There’s another component that everyone always complains about in other people, but few take the time… Continue reading Handle Your Baggage
Where do you go?
Tweet When you have questions about love and relationships, where do you go for answers? Who do you trust for advice? What makes you listen to or disregard advice that’s offered? Are you someone who people come to for relationship advice? Why do you think that is or isn’t? I ask because I’m curious. (And… Continue reading Where do you go?
The Cooper Constant: Childhood Love
Tweet Every now and then a show comes along at just the right time and matches almost perfectly what you’re going through. The Wonder Years was one of those shows for me. Sure, I was a little older than Kevin Arnold when the show started in 1988, but the memories of starting middles school were… Continue reading The Cooper Constant: Childhood Love
Art Imitates Life, Life Returns the Favor
Tweet Like many of my generation, I grew up on a whole lot of TV and movies. Specifically, on TV, I grew up on reruns of sitcoms from the 50s, 60s and 70s and was front and center for the “golden age” of the sitcom in the 80s and early 90s. I was indoctrinated into… Continue reading Art Imitates Life, Life Returns the Favor
Now and Later: The Truth Behind the Myth of The One
Tweet The main problems with the idea of The One True Love of your life come from a watering down, glazing over and outright manipulation of the myths that once upon a time laid out a pretty sensible picture of love, life, relationships and romance (when there was any to be had). The Big Secret… Continue reading Now and Later: The Truth Behind the Myth of The One
Breaking the Silence: 5 Steps to Announcing Your Crush
Tweet With International Crush Day having just passed, I hope some of you let fly with declarations of wild interest to some of your crushes. Me? I discovered that I really don’t have many actual crushes around I haven’t told about my crush on them. And those that I do have… well, they’re not quite… Continue reading Breaking the Silence: 5 Steps to Announcing Your Crush