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Thursday, August 28, 2008

  • The Guy at The Baby Shower

    This is a guest blog submitted by sleepyhead.

    I was invited to a baby shower, but I was pretty sure guys didn't usually go to events like that. After repeatedly declining, my friend's boyfriend convinced me to go. His girlfriend had forced him to go, too, and he wanted another guy there in case it got boring and we wanted to leave.

    He told me there'd be people from high school we hadn’t seen in a while and drinks. I wasn't thrilled about drinking in the afternoon, nor did I want to see people from high school I hadn't spoken to in years. But I went anyway, looking to leave after an hour or so.

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  • Sorry, We Can't Be Friends 'Cause I'm Married

    This is a guest blog submitted by sleepyhead.

    A few weeks ago, a fellow Xanga member declined my friend invite.  I had invited her to be my friend after writing a comment on her blog. I wasn't surprised with the decline; it happens. What surprised me was the message she sent me explaining why she'd declined; she said she was married so she didn't want to be friends. 

    I didn't respond to the message; I deleted it but wondered why she had to mention she was married when declining a friends invite. I expected her to say she didn't know me or wasn't comfortable with an invite from a stranger. If I get friend invites and plan to decline, I just do it. There's no need for a message to be attached.

    Since the message, I've been wondering if this woman is in a relationship where her husband controls everything she does. I say this because this coincides with an AIM conversation I had with someone's BF when I thought it was her.

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  • Dear Dr. Datingish: I Still Love Him But I Can't Trust Him

    Dr. Datingish

    My boyfriend and I broke up two years ago. He left me for another woman - I was left heart broken and I thought that was the end of the world.

    It took me a very long time to get where I am now; I am still single, and I do admit I still think of him every day.
    I still think of him in every song I listen to or romance movies that I watch.

    Throughout these past two years, I've still talked to him from time to time, even while he was still with his new girlfriend. At first, I was the one who kept contacting him, hoping maybe he would change his mind again and realize that he'd lost the best thing in his life.

    I realized it wasn't doing me any good, so I forced myself to stay away from him and tried to get my life back on track instead.

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Wednesday, August 27, 2008

  • Too True To Be Good?

    This is a guest blog submitted by spiritedsherry.

    In our marriage, there is no such thing as too much honesty and openness; Derek is an open book and I'm like an audio book on auto-play. There is absolutely nothing that we keep from each other.

    I think we can all agree that communication is key to a strong relationship. But there are some things we share that are honest, but potentially hurtful to the other person, damaging to the way the other person sees us or downright embarrassing or socially taboo.

    Here are some examples of unreserved candor that either we or our friends have shared with a significant other:

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  • Stuck Between Two Boyfriend Stages...Can I Have Both?

    This is a guest blog submitted by bigaslives.

    Being the Token Single Girl within my group of friends, it's no surprise that I'm the go-to girl when it comes to relationship advice. I don't mind it. It makes me feel useful and it keeps me connected to my friends that are usually busy with their significant others most of the time. It also sorta keeps me entertained whenever I end up third wheeling it, too.

    Sure, I may be the pathetic third party at the dinner table, but at least I know that she secretly can't stand how you leave dirty dishes on the table or how you were so immature over her going out last night. I bet she told you she had bad reception and didn't get your text, huh? I know she purposely ignored it. Yeah, that's right. Who's in the dark now?

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  • Dear Dr. Datingish: Is My Cousin's Business My Business, Too?

    Dr. Datingish

    My 13-year-old cousin is going out with a 16-year-old guy. This guy and I used to be friends until he completely ruined pretty much everything. I tried to be okay with their relationship, but there was just something really weird about a junior going out with an eighth grader. I let them know that, too.

    After four months of going out with my cousin, he's managed to ruin her relationship with me, her dad and everyone who doesn't like them going out. To top it off, he took her virginity, too.

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Tuesday, August 26, 2008

  • T-Shirts: Crude or Funny?

    This is a guest blog submitted by sleepyhead.

     "I suffer from PMS: Putting Up with Men’s S**t"

    We've all seen t-shirts like these around. For many it's a way to express how they're feeling, what they're going through or are at least good for a laugh.

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  • She Flat Out Ignored Me - Was It Because of Where We Were?

    This is a guest blog submitted by sleepyhead.

    I was excited after winning a great basketball game with my teammates and was talking about it on the way home with my siblings.

    Then she caught my eye. We were in the same train car and she was chatting it up with her friend. 

    She looked familiar - in fact, she looked exactly like the sister of one of my friends from college. At first I wasn't sure if I should approach her or not, but I figured it probably was her - she was taking the same train my friend takes to get home, so that gave me even more reason to believe it was her.

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  • Diagnosis: AIM Syndrome

    This is a guest blog submitted by sleepyhead.

    The 11-year anniversary of AIM took place this past May without much fanfare.  For many, AIM became the standard form of communication, which eventually made some "too shy" to approach a girl or guy. I call this the "AIM Syndrome", and my best friend is still afflicted with it.

    The syndrome is tough to grasp when it's taking its victims. At first you don't see or feel the effects of it, but slowly it penetrates the mind of its victims forcing them to choose their communication methods. Every LOL and smiley further engulfs the victims into believing that AIM is superior than having a face-to-face conversation with the girl at the end of the screen.

    Freshman year of high school, both my best friend and I got computers and we were excited to use them. AIM was the hottest thing about having a computer - sometimes I felt like the computer wouldn't have a purpose except for chatting. It was already making us believe that we couldn't survive without it. Slowly it became our main form of communication.

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  • They Connected Online, But Not In Person...Now What?

    This is a guest blog submitted by a Datingish reader.

    I've pretty much been in love with Bryan for the past eight months. He was a senior in my school – a little older than I was - and he was unlike any other guy I had ever met.

    There was no way I could just walk up to him one day and start a conversation, however, so du
    ring Christmas break one night, I decided to IM him after I got his screen name from Facebook.

    He replied asking who I was, so I told him, thinking that he wouldn't even recognize my name. To my surprise, he told me that he knew who I was. We started talking; it was mostly me asking him questions because I found him so interesting, and he sounded genuine and really nice.

    I IMed him again the next day, but on the third day I decided to hold back because I didn't want him to think I wa
    s desperately obsessed with him, though I was. And, to my delight, he IMed me after an hour or so.

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