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  • Email Drama

    Sorry for my lack of writing lately. I am (kind of) on vacation visiting family. I got some interesting emails yesterday from my ex, the Army Guy. We are supposed to have a moratorium on contacting each other while he's…

  • Phone Games

    Ok, so I have a little bit of a complaint/question about men - what is with the phone games? For some reason, almost every guy I have ever met follows the three day rule exactly. Pretty much without fail, I can expect …

  • :-)

    He emailed me back. Nothing grand, no outpourings of love or anything, but it was friendly and he said he missed me and would be sure to keep in touch. He also sounded worried about me and told me many times to be safe b…

  • Dating Coworkers

    I tend to be of the school of thought that dating coworkers is a HORRIBLE idea. Sure, it could work out great and you could live happily ever after. But it could also explode in your face and then you have to see that pe…

  • The 35 year old

    Last night I broke a couple of my dating age difference rules - I went out with a 35 year old. I'm 22. In general, I try to stick with "don't date someone more than half your age older than you" and/or "don't date anyon…

  • The Email That I Wanted To Send

    This is the email that I wish I could send to my soulmate (not the one I actually sent). You don't have to read it if you don't want to. It's long and I'm recounting some stuff I've already explained to you guys. But I j…

  • The Email

    This is the email I sent to Soulmate - the first since he left. It's not the email I wanted to send (I'll post that tomorrow) but it's the email I thought was best to send. My goal was to make it pretty clear that I stil…

  • Dating when you're in love with someone else

    Even though I think I've found the love of my life, since he's no longer in this country, I feel like I should still date. So that's what I've been doing. I like going out and meeting new people. I'm having fun going on …

  • The true meaning of Feminism

    I went out on another OkCupid date tonight. We went and saw Regina Spektor (and Albert Hammond, Jr.) at McCarren Park Pool and then grabbed dinner afterward. He was nice, but I'm not interested (for obvious reasons). Any…

  • The Next Step

    For those of you very supportive Datingish/Xanga readers who have been following my soulmate drama, I have a question for you: What do I do now? I have already decided that my next step is to email him in about a week.…

  • Oh Cruel, Twisted Fate

    Fate, it seems, really likes to fuck with me. Excuse my language, but there's really no better word to describe what happened to me today, as I experienced a series of mortifying moments. I went to the Verizon store tod…

  • The Best Friend Test

    Part of every relationship is meeting the friends, particularly the "best friend(s)." This is often a test of the relationship, as the best friend's opinion is very important. And of course the best friend is going to ha…

  • The Pervert

    I met with OKcupid boy #5. Yikes. I guess I should've been tipped off by his random obsession with juggling - that's really a majority of what he talks about. But he still seemed nice and so I thought I would give him a…

  • Boys Are Stupid, Throw Rocks at Them

    He's gone. And I didn't get to see him again before he left. He's pretty much the most disorganized person in the world, so he had a lot of trouble getting everything together before he left. When I spoke to him on the …

  • The Soulmate

    I met him through my coworkers (he worked on a different project with them) and I always thought he was cute and seemed very nice. But I had a boyfriend so I didn't think much of it. When The Army Guy (my most recent ex…

  • Age Differences

    I've always been of the school of thought that men are less mature than women, or mature more slowly. For that reason, I tend to date older guys. I don't think I've ever dated a guy more than a couple of months younger t…

  • Unhealthy Relationships

    I'm sure we've all been in an unhealthy relationship or two. You know - a relationship that's unequal in some way, where one person treats the other person not so well, or that kind of thing. But it's hard to break free …

  • The Grand Gesture

    While I have never been the type of girl who requires grand gestures, I have to say that every now and then, they're kind of nice. Not in public, mind you. I don't like being put on the spot. But a private, intimate gran…

  • The Frat Boy - Date #2

    Yesterday I went on an all-day date with The Frat Boy. First we went to the Natural History Museum. It was packed for some reason, but it was still pretty cool. I hadn't gotten to see much of it the other time I went, so…

  • Meeting People - The "Where" Question

    So it's 1:30am on a Saturday night (or I guess it would be Sunday morning now). I just got back from date #2 with The Frat Boy. I'll write about that later. The reason I find myself having to write right now is as follow…

  • The Engineer

    I'm starting to get disheartened. My date tonight was kind of disappointing. He's nice and at least he's smart. But he's pretty short and not as attractive as he looked in his pictures. Plus he talks about engineering wa…