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Just A Warning: Jealous People Might Contact You

My ex-boyfriend John has friended and unfriended me many times on Facebook. Thus, I wasn’t shocked when he unfriended me again recently. I just rolled my eyes and shook my head.

Then I received a personal message from him:

[Unfriending you] was for your own protection. Seriously. The woman. She began to show a very mean, possessive and jealous streak and has begun contacting FB friends. You and about six other females were deleted. Nothing personal. All passwords have been changed just in case. So fed up with dating.

One might find this terribly dramatic and shocking except this is not the first time I have been warned by a man about the possibility of a woman contacting me.

Who’s calling? A jealous person.

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Sadder (Older) But Wiser Gal For Me

30 September 2013 / Sip and Go Girl / One comment

Two noteworthy things happened recently. One, I talked with my friend Gary about one of our favorite musicals: The Music Man. Two, I had a conversation with passionate sipandgogirl.com contributor Crazy Spectacular about dating.

The two events intersected in the most fascinating way.

I was chatting via Facebook’s personal messaging system with Crazy Spectacular and told her about an ex-boyfriend posting compromising photos of a woman.

She went to that man’s Facebook page and contacted me in horror. But it wasn’t the photos of the woman that gave her pause. It was the photos of the man. She was stunned he was 20 years older than me.
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He’s Just Too Into You

20 August 2013 / Sip and Go Girl / 2 comments

You’ve heard the phrase “he’s just not that into you.”

I argue a guy can avoid you because he once was too into you.

At least twice recently, I had conversations with women about men from their pasts. In both cases my two friends knew the men from workplaces, were close friends or at least kind of fooled around with them, had lost touch over the years, and had slightly reconnected via Facebook

But both female friends said roughly the same thing to me.

“He doesn’t show any interest in maintaining the friendship we used to have.”

My response to both of the women is “He was too into you.”

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Mysterious Illnesses Of Facebook Users

23 July 2013 / Sip and Go Girl / One comment

There are plenty of lists that mock certain “types” of posts on Facebook. You’ve surely read those posts from people who constantly talk about how much they love their significant other or that they just finished a crazy difficult exercise routine or ate the world’s tastiest burrito.

The website Funny Or Die satirizes the popular social medium’s users who post– among many things– about being terribly alone or unlovable.

http://www.funnyordie.com/lists/6706d22475/people-who-should-be-immediately-unfriended-on-facebook

I’m adding another type of poster: The Mysterious Illness I Won’t Explain.

It doesn’t seem possible, but it was one year ago today that we took off for [insert location here], so our [child]could have specialized surgery there. The surgery was a success and we were well taken care of in the [number] weeks we spent there thanks to our doctors and nurses and to the friends and family who lent their support. Feeling a lot of gratitude today.

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Relationships Are Like Garage Sales

27 May 2013 / Sip and Go Girl / One comment

I found this on Facebook, but can’t remember which friend had it on his or her wall.

The sentiment is a little too dramatic and negative for me. Plus I don’t like the angry swear word.

What do YOU think, Sip and Go Girl reader?

A Corps of Leaders Telling You What To Do

20 May 2013 / Sip and Go Girl / Comments Off

“Each arena, it seems, has a corps of leaders of its own.”

And we might be those leaders, say Elihu Katz and Paul Lazarsfeld in their 1955 book “Personal Influence: The Part Played by People in the Flow of Mass Communications.”

I took a PhD class called Media and Politics in America. I like both topics, and also liked that one of the assigned readings dipped into another fave topic: interpersonal relationships. We read the Katz and Lazarsfeld study, which is famous among scholars who study politics and media. It focuses on interpersonal relationships and the potential influence those relationships have on fashion, public affairs, movie attendance, and the purchasing of household products.

Their research showed most people aren’t directly impacted by messages like advertisements. Instead, they’re influenced by a two-step process in which people thought to be leaders with valid opinions and judgement receive messages from the media. They in turn analyze and share with others in their personal networks.
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