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Hey, Let Me Go Ask My Significant Other If We Can Be Friends, Mmkay?
By
Alex Wise
This is going to sound supremely stupid. I’m aware of this. Luckily, a vast majority of relationship “issues” sound stupid because whether we like it or not, there’s a lot of “how does it look-ism” as opposed to “what’s really going on-ism” involved. We all get so caught up in what something may look like…
Three Reasons You Can Be Your Best Friend’s Worst Dating Enemy
By
Alex Wise
There are songs about it, jokes about it, entire movies centered around it: a guy trying to date a woman and being consistently blocked by her “best” “friend”. Unfortunately, unlike the movies, usually the friend in question isn’t some horrible harpy but somebody who sincerely means well and just is tripping up. Furthermore, everybody does…
Things Are Always More Complicated Than They Seem
By
Alex Wise
Recently I was asked for my “philosophy of dating”. It took me a while to stop laughing. I mean seriously, a philosophy of dating? That’s one of the funniest things I’ve heard in a while. But the person persisted and I thought about it for a while. Finally I came up with this, “things are…
Valentines, A Little Perspective
By
Alex Wise
Yeah, the hype is getting serious now. Adverts, V-day specials, frantic shuffling of plans and the inevitable irritation of it all. We start to think, “Why bother?” It is a made up thing anyway, to sell cards and roses and sentimentally tacky stuffed animals. It puts pressure, sometimes bad pressure, on a relationship and makes…
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