5 Toxic Behaviors that Doom Relationships
His wife told him over text, while he was driving. Over the last few weeks he’s been trying to figure out why. She'd never complained about their marriage before, not once. He thought they were doing just fine. Her decision caught him by complete surprise.
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We met at a teachers’ conference. I couldn’t stop looking at him. Eventually, he came over to my table during lunch. We started talking. We got coffee. We exchanged numbers. We hugged goodbye.
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When I was19, a guy placed his hand on my cheek at a New Year’s Eve party and told me I was beautiful. He did that after about 20 minutes of flirting, to underscore his intentions.
Read full storyWomen Undermine Each Other for One Simple Reason
My friend and I were at a party, when one of my exes showed up. Let’s call my friend Jolene—you know, from that Dolly Parton song. Her pupils dilated when my ex waved at us. “Who’s that?”
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Ethereum is the cryptocurrency of 2021. It rivals bitcoin in performance, and the entry point is much lower (less than $2,000). With ether futures about to go live, on top of ethereum 2.0 updates, it's poised to blast off like a SpaceX rocket this coming week.
Read full story15 Habits of Genuinely Intelligent People
For years, I taught gifted teenagers—long enough to know how it sounds when someone brings up their IQ. The most intellectually-lazy people I’ve met obsess over their intelligence.
Read full storyA Heartbreaking List of Terrible Mistakes I Made in My 20s
Back in my 20s, a typical afternoon found me nibbling on a pimento cheese sandwich, like a squirrel, between classes I taught at a community college. I would lecture about George Orwell for half an hour while a bunch of under-achieving teens glowered at me and texted under their desks. After that, I would grade papers in a cubicle.
Read full storySomeone Who Really Loves You Will Also Believe In You
There’s no list of commandments when it comes to love and relationships. But there’s at least one thing you should never do, regardless of who you are—or what you want out of life.
Read full storyYou Don't Find Love. You Make It.
You meet someone, maybe at a coffee shop. Or the gym. Or online. They massage you with their eyes; it feels better than sex. Things are off to a good start. They’re smart, attractive, funny. Really into you. So you trade numbers and start dating. Wind up having the best sex. Next up, merging social groups. Everyone thinks you’re a super cute couple. You hold hands all the time. A few of your friends even reveal their jealousy.
Read full storyWhy She's Always Telling You "I'm Fine"
Something’s bothering her. So you ask what’s wrong. Nothing, she says. She’s fine. Her voice dances in ballerina shoes. Maybe she gives you that empty, Mona Lisa smile. Ugh. Women, right? They expect you to read their minds. Except… they don’t. Your wife or girlfriend tried to tell you what was wrong hours ago. But you weren’t listening.
Read full storyHere’s Your No Nonsense Guide to Finding Someone & Loving Them
He didn’t look angry or hurt when I finally showed up, forty minutes late. He just laughed and ordered us a drink. “What happened?” he said. He laughed. “You really do look like you just woke up.”
Read full storyLove Isn't Supposed to Make Sense
My friend fell in love in the back of a police car. She got there because of me. I wanted to see a haunted asylum. That’s how she met him, a bartender who’d come along with our group. Even in handcuffs, they couldn’t stop flirting. They went on their first date right after the cops let us all go with a warning.
Read full storyDo This Instead of Cheating on Your Partner
One look and I was filled with feelings I didn’t know I had, for someone I wasn’t dating. It was more than attraction, and more than chemistry. He was smiling at me. The photo was for me, and it made me deeply happy in a way I hadn’t felt in more than a year.
Read full storyYou Can Make Long-Distance Relationships Work
We lived in different cities when we met. We lived in different states when we fell in love. We lived in different time zones when we got engaged. We lived on different coasts when we got married.
Read full storyYou Can’t “Just Be Friends” with Someone You Love
Friendship is messy business. So is love. It’s hard to be friends with someone who turned a cheek to your kiss, or cut your heart strings. And yet, getting over rejection is basic adulting.
Read full story8 Qualities Mature, Intelligent Men Look for in a Woman
Some men I know have passed up plenty of chances to date gorgeous women. They didn’t use her for sex. They didn’t breadcrumb her. They just rejected her. They did it because she struck them as:
Read full story9 Signs They're Not Ready for an Adult Relationship
You can settle for fool’s love all day long. You can settle for a great kisser, or the perfect body — or bags of cash. But if they act with the emotional maturity of a third grader, they’ll never make you happy.
Read full storyThis Is What Women Really Want
If you’re a guy, you’re going to meet a lot of women who don’t have a clue what they want — even if they think they do. Almost all of us want the same handful of things out of a serious relationship. The hard part is figuring out what those are.
Read full storyHow to Love an Ambitious Woman
It's hard to love someone you don't believe in. It's even harder to love someone who doesn't believe in you. I've learned you can't share a life with someone who thinks your ambitions sound silly. If you meet an ambitious woman (or man), and you can't fall behind their plans, get out while you can. You won't help them by standing back and watching their setbacks and failures, waiting for them to give up. Everyone has to wrestle with their own dreams.
Read full story10 Habits of Every Karen
One of my coworkers is the biggest Karen I know. She started a campaign to redecorate the office earlier this year. She thought it looked “very unprofessional.” She called it “embarrassing.”
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