Tweet Whether it’s in regards to a crush, an actual relationship or any other facet of your life, being able to tell when you’re falling into a negative spiral is the first step in not getting stuck in a very bad place. A negative spiral is a pattern of thought or behavior that is self-reinforcing… Continue reading Today’s Reminder: Avoid the Negative Spiral
Category: Lessons Learned
Hump Day Crush: Half the Story
Tweet Nearly 15 years ago, right at the end of my first year of college, I met this wonderful girl. We met at a very outdoorsy community service project my service group was working on. She was a friend of a friend and had spent most of the day trudging through the underbrush on the… Continue reading Hump Day Crush: Half the Story
Old Habits
Tweet Most weekends, I head out with friends to a bar or a dance club. I go because I thoroughly enjoy it. It’s a chance to be social, a chance to meet new people and a chance to be reminded of things that are easy to forget between the week-day rush of work and the… Continue reading Old Habits
The Big Game
Tweet The first Super Bowl party I was ever invited to happened when I was in high school. The invitation itself was a surprise. The geniality of the other people there–people who generally didn’t have a lot to do with me in school–was even more surprising. I don’t remember who played, let alone who won… Continue reading The Big Game
Hump Day Crush: Ten Years, Plus Another Five
Tweet May of this year marks fifteen years since my high school graduation. As anyone who even casually reads here knows, high school played a large role in setting the groundwork for who I am now. That all became very clear to me when the ten year mark was rolling around and I got involved… Continue reading Hump Day Crush: Ten Years, Plus Another Five
Hump Day Crush: Taking a Leap
Tweet Things are busy here in WithoutBeingCrushed.com-land. Between Christmas and today, I’ve already fallen into three or four new crushes. And of those three or four, I’ve already taken the chance and pushed one or two of them ahead to the “trying to get to know her better” stage. That, of course, brings the whole… Continue reading Hump Day Crush: Taking a Leap
Hump Day Crush: More Than the Cover
Tweet The new season of Beauty and the Geek has hit the CW. Anyone who knows me, knows that this is one of the few reality shows that I actually think is worth watching. It’s one of the few that doesn’t encourage every-man-for-himself backstabbing. The show is actually about personal development and learning about others.… Continue reading Hump Day Crush: More Than the Cover