5. What would make the date a success? A failure? What could a girl do to make the evening easier?
When it comes to guys‘ dating success stories, almost all the answers were only slight variations on a common theme. Our guys thought it would be a great night if they felt comfortable, enjoyed the conversation, felt attracted to the girl in question, felt as though they had connected with her in some way, and wanted to see her again. Read the rest of this entry »
Since dating takes two —at the very least—wouldn’t the ordeal be a lot less stressful if you were privy to the other party’s hopes and fears? Natch. So, once again, all for you, we did one of our survey things and asked roughly fifty guys your top ten questions about dating—with emphasis on the rebound variety. Here’s what they had to say. Read the rest of this entry »
Just as Indian heartbreak can arrive with little or no warning, so, too, can it leave. “I was just getting used to being in another blue funk, when it went away,” says a thirty-two-yearold personnel director. “One morning, I woke up and I thought, ‘Hey, I don’t feel so bad.’ I can’t really think of any specific event that led up to this. I guess it just ran its course. I was sick and tired of feeling sick and tired—I was ready to meet new people again.” Another woman remembers how “I snapped out of it in the middle of working out. Read the rest of this entry »
No, we don’t mean the crazed, murderous, headline-making kind of stalking that’s all the rage these days. We mean a less violent type of safari in which your ex calls and hangs up as soon as you answer, or lurks around your apartment building to see if you’re coming home alone, or tries repeatedly to pick up the messages on your answering machine, or leaves you flowers or writes plaintive missives declaring his love. Ah, but that would be impossible, you say. Men never do such silly things, do they? Read the rest of this entry »
Stop number one for most men: In this stage, a man will deal with his problems by simply . . . not dealing. He’ll do just about anything to distract himself from the sad topic at hand—e.g., if he thought that walking over hot coals might help him get his mind off things, he’d happily march right over them. “There’s nothing like a good bungee jump to put things in perspective,” said one thirty-four-year-old respondent. Whatever you say, Geronimo. Read the rest of this entry »
You haven’t been on a date for as long as you can remember. Then again, you’ve been so busy working/talking on the phone/staring into space that you really haven’t had a chance to meet the four available, straight, single men in your metropolitan area. Fair enough. But maybe it’s time to stop making excuses and to ask yourself that crucial question: What am I waiting for? Read the rest of this entry »
Though most of our money problems stem from some other issue, sometimes when we fight about money, we’re really fighting about money. For instance, let’s say you’re flat broke, or in debt. You don’t know how you got yourself into this situation. So you blame your partner. And she blames you. You’re fighting about money. You can avoid such a pitfall by following this three-step process once a year. Read the rest of this entry »
To find out how to take an insult well, we went to a guy who grins and bares it for a living. His name is John Sweeney, the public editor, correction writer, and chief complaint-taker for the News Journal, the leading newspaper in Delaware. On a bad day, Sweeney weathers nearly 100 insults on behalf of his paper. Here’s his strategy for taking criticism unflappably. Read the rest of this entry »
Romantic retaliation is a tricky thing. As someone once said (we think it was Alec Guinness, but maybe it was Martha Stewart), revenge is a dish that people of taste prefer to eat cold. We’re not exactly sure what that means—we think it means something like it’s better not to fly off the handle all hot-headed, but rather to seek vengeance in a cold, calculating, meticulous way. Read the rest of this entry »
These days, many women choose to let their fingers do the stalking; they prefer to seek vindication without ever having to leave the comfort of their own homes. In other words, they make use of one of the cruelest instruments of modern times: the telephone. Read the rest of this entry »
