Posts Tagged ‘warning signs’

While I do believe that we should see each relationship we have as a learning experience that brings lessons to us whether they do or don’t work out in the long run, it does not negate the concept that time can be wasted with people who are not right for us. It is better to…

Sometimes when I receive emails from or have discussions with women regarding their current boyfriend or a guy who they are thinking of becoming exclusive with, one thing seems to be apparent to onlookers, but missed by the person in the relationship. There is a big difference between liking someone, and liking the idea of someone. I…

Wait…what? Did you read that right? I thought I was the guy who was always supposed to be advocating for equality and fairness, particularly between genders and in relationships. Well, I still am, but the reality is that your relationship will never be truly equal. And on top of that – it shouldn’t be anyway. How…

So as a woman, you are consistently told that you shouldn’t show too much interest in a man. That you should play hard to get. Make him work for it. While this is sound advice in the respect that you should of course never lower your standards and accept advances from just any random man…

It may be surprising to some of you to hear me say that monogamy is not natural, considering I talk about building healthy relationships with one person and not running around picking up women at bars, or something. Well, it’s not natural. In many ways it’s quite unnatural for us, actually. On a biological and instinctual level, if we did…

There’s an article in The New York Times called “The End of Courtship?” which I find to be more than a little disappointing. The article discusses how men generally put minimal effort into dating or women anymore and the extent of dates these days is “hey babe I’m out with some friends, wanna come meet up?”…

With half of the United States now being officially single, it is no surprise that there are quite a few people out there with negative opinions about relationships. Whether they think they will be held back, anchored down, suddenly overrun with drama, or any other less-than-ideal misconception, I think they all have one thing in…

Because I can already feel people opening a new internet browser window and beginning to type their hate mail to me just because of the title of this article, I should put a disclaimer out here. If you are a regular reader, then you understand my position on gender equality and you know that I absolutely…

I often receive emails or Facebook messages from readers – not all of which I have the time to answer. I do my best to read through them though, and one had stuck out to me in the past. It was from a female reader who wanted input on her relationship. One of the lines…