Tweet One of the comments I got from last week’s tale of successfully crush revelation raised the question of what a successful crush entailed. The simple answer is this: A successful crush is one that helps you become a better person while causing as few new problems as possible. That’s it. Too often we confuse… Continue reading What is a ‘Successful’ Crush?
Category: How to Crush
Failure and Success: Telling Someone About the Crush (Part II)
Tweet So I’ve talked about how to tell someone you have a crush on them and why you’d want to do that. I figure now it’s time I share a couple of stories from my own life. Just a little while ago, I told you about one that didn’t go so well. Now I’d like… Continue reading Failure and Success: Telling Someone About the Crush (Part II)
Failure and Success: Telling Someone About the Crush (Part I)
Tweet So I’ve talked about how to tell someone you have a crush on them and why you’d want to do that. I figure now it’s time I share a couple of stories from my own life. One when things went pretty darn wrong and another where they went considerably better. A Failure to Understand… Continue reading Failure and Success: Telling Someone About the Crush (Part I)
Why Speak Up
Tweet After last week’s post about how to tell someone you have a crush on them, I was met again and again with two major questions: Why not just ask them out? and Why tell them? The first I answered a while ago here. In a nutshell: dating isn’t something everyone enjoys doing. At least… Continue reading Why Speak Up
Breaking the Silence: 5 Steps to Announcing Your Crush
Tweet With International Crush Day having just passed, I hope some of you let fly with declarations of wild interest to some of your crushes. Me? I discovered that I really don’t have many actual crushes around I haven’t told about my crush on them. And those that I do have… well, they’re not quite… Continue reading Breaking the Silence: 5 Steps to Announcing Your Crush
Mending a Broken Heart
Tweet Those who’ve read through here regularly know that a crush doesn’t need to lead to heartbreak. Heck, the end of an actual relationship doesn’t need to go there, either. But it happens to the best of us, no matter how prepared we think we are. And when it does, we have to figure out… Continue reading Mending a Broken Heart
Rules of Engagement: 5 Checks and Balances
Tweet If there’s one thing I’ve learned over the years, it’s how easily I can fall back into old patterns. And my old patterns when it comes to romantic feelings are far from beneficial to me or anyone else who may be involved. I can very quickly fall into an obsessive, self-destructive crush mode. On… Continue reading Rules of Engagement: 5 Checks and Balances