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Myth Busting

14 March 2013 / / Comments Off on Myth Busting

I was wandering the world wide web and ran into an article about the myths of dating. It was on match.com. No, I don’t have a profile on the site, but I do read it for the articles.

The following myths are the ones most applicable for those engaging in a sip and go or maybe more.

#1: There’s no such thing as love at first sight

Reality: Actually, there is… but interestingly, it happens more often for men than for women. “Men can fall in love instantaneously when they lay eyes on someone attractive because they’re so visual,” says Dr. Helen Fisher, a noted anthropologist at Rutgers University and author of Why We Love. Women, on the other hand, are biologically programmed to “fall” differently: Since women aren’t as visual, they’re slower to feel smitten. “Women at least have to talk to the person!” she says.
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Post-Date Hecklers

15 January 2013 / / Comments Off on Post-Date Hecklers

One of the challenges I face as creator, editor, and primary writer for a website about relationships is making sure I also stay true to my journalist roots. This means that while I might tell a seemingly far-fetched story about a person, place, or thing, the story is true and I tell it without embellishment.  Thus, you won’t see a sentence like this:

“And he very stupidly took the door handle and, like a big imbecile, decided that…”

My goal is not to mock. It’s to learn, teach, and share.

Nevertheless, there is the possibility that someone somewhere is going to read an article in which his name is used and feel sad or angry that I’m talking about him. One of the ways I also try to get around hurt feelings is by allowing some time to pass between the date or experience and when I publish the article.
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