Communication: The key to a solid relationship.

This is a big one. Many people put up walls to protect themselves from getting hurt, but you could be keeping out the ONE person who isn’t going to act like the rest. Isn’t that what you want to find? It’s easy to group together entire genders when we’ve had some negative experiences – but…

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Communication: The key to a solid relationship.

  This is a big one. Many people put up walls to protect themselves from getting hurt, but you could be keeping out the ONE person who isn’t going to act like the rest. Isn’t that what you want to find? It’s easy to group together entire genders when we’ve had some negative experiences –…

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How to keep sabotaging your relationships

I witness this phenomenon more frequently than I’d care to, and I’m sure many of you do as well. The more I observe, the more I think it’s mostly prominent in the ‘party scene.’ The unexplained merry-go-round of dating. The same girls willingly circulating around the same guys, all of whom usually have a terrible reputation. A…

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The Right Person Will Love Everything About You That The Wrong People Took For Granted

For anyone attempting “dating” in the 21st century, there is an overwhelming question of whether or not our generation actually appreciates the qualities many of us were taught to possess by our parents, grandparents, or hell – even Disney movies. In an age that seems to be overrun by the self-absorbed, those who are perpetual…

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Creative Dating: You can do better than “Dinner and a movie.”

*Disclaimer: The following paragraphs mostly apply to taking out a girl that you’ve got real interest in, not just a fling or someone you can’t see yourself with for very long. I think it’s safe to say that “dinner and a movie” has been the go-to date plan since, well, movies were invented. Don’t get…

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Where Have The Ladies Gone? Class And The Modern Woman…

I recently wrote a post titled What it takes to be a modern gentleman in the 21st century, and some people suggested I put together something similar for the women of our generation. So, I started to think. I started to think about the years I had spent in the “club scene” before I finally…

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To recharge your motivation, get a taste of what you want…

The above video is of a Ferrari F430 Scuderia tearing down the front stretch of New Hampshire Motor Speedway this past weekend – with me behind the wheel. I fully outline this experience (an amazing gift from my girlfriend) in the Cloud 9 Living blog here: https://www.cloud9living.com/blog/ferrari-driving-experience-gift, but I’d like to cover a different, aspect…

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What it takes to be a modern gentleman in the 21st century.

Fellow men of the world; I am constantly bombarded with posts and memes on Facebook about what “real men” and “real women”  do. Usually these things involve superfluous actions or qualities, but I always find myself sarcastically asking, does that make someone who doesn’t do this a “fake” man or woman? I see what they’re…

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Is technology making us…dumber?

Technology is a wonderful thing. I am addicted to social media and my smartphone might as well be surgically attached to my hand. I am in no way bashing the advancement of technology in society, in fact, I find it fascinating how far we have come in such little time. But (there’s always a but),…

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