Tweet First impressions count for a lot. If you’re meeting people online, there’s a good chance your profile picture is a hefty part of your first impression. The crew over at OK Cupid (you know them–they’re a dating site and also one of the big producers of silly meme-quizzes) has dipped into their massive user-base… Continue reading Getting a Picture of Online Dating
Category: Relationships
A Little Bit of Communication
Tweet This little video, a 2009 Cannes Lions winner, says a whole lot about communication. How much we need it. How difficult it can be. How wonderful making the right connection is. And it does it all without the main characters saying anything. It really does take the idea of text messages–something those of us… Continue reading A Little Bit of Communication
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
Infographic Love
Tweet Every now and then, something pops up that’s kind of tangentially related to the whole relationship thing. This is one of those times. Shane Snow, writer and artist, produced a nice little infographic over at Gizmodo that touches on a very important issue: technology and our relationships. In this case, the near-ubiquitous iPhone. It’s… Continue reading Infographic Love
What to Do On a Date
Tweet With my current schedule getting in the way of all sorts of things, I have yet to write what I planned on for this space. Luckily, friends in other places stumble across interesting things. For example, here’s a little vintage educational film about dating… By today’s standards, that’s some amazingly tame (and downright square)… Continue reading What to Do On a Date
Old Habits and the King of Wishful Thinking
Tweet You’d think that with three years of a totally obsessive and self-destructive crush behind me, I’d have learned my lesson. Especially with everything else that I started to learn in high school. Well, you’d be wrong. I still had a habit of fixating on people. Usually people I was interested in dating and horribly… Continue reading Old Habits and the King of Wishful Thinking
More away than home
Tweet Despite my best efforts, I never was able to fully overcome all those little anxieties that had settled into place over the yeas before high school. They were always at their worst, though, when I was surrounded by the same people who had been around when they first formed. The odd thing was, anytime… Continue reading More away than home