“I’d forgotten just how much of a feeding frenzy online dating is,” sighed my friend Emma. She’d just broken up with her boyfriend and had reactivated her OKCupid account. Evidently the emails started rolling in almost as soon as she’d clicked “confirm”. I’d been helping her fine-tune her profile and I’d had an opportunity to…
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The Top 5 Dating Mistakes Men Make
On Monday, we talked about how the key to learning any new skill is to deconstruct it. You want to break the skill – whether it’s playing guitar, learning a new language or even dating – into its core components. It’s entirely too easy to get distracted by side issues; the would-be martial artist wants…
Creep Week: Don’t Be THAT Guy
As Creep Week draws to a close and Con Season is beginning, it’s time to talk about That Guy. You know. The Creeper. The perv. The guy who either misses or ignores every single signal or sign or unspoken form of communication. The guy who makes people uncomfortable by his very presence. The one who…
Creep Week: How To Reform A Creeper
Normally I save letters from my readers for Ask Dr. NerdLove on Wednesdays, but occasionally I’ll get one that merits a full-blown article. Then every once in a while, I’ll get one that merits more than just one article. In this case, it’s a return to the ever-popular subject of how to handle creepers. A reader…
Creep Shots and Predditors and Cat-calls, Oh My
Brace yourself folks, I’m writing about creepers again. I’ve heard from a number of folks asking just why I talk about creepers so often, and the answer is simple: I’m totally angling for a staff writing job at Jezebel. No. Really. OK, not really.1 The real answer, is because my blog’s purpose is to help people be better,…
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Creepy Behavior and The Difference Between “Attractive” and “Attracted”
Looks like there’s going to be a bonus article this week. Whenever the topic of creepy behavior comes up, you can almost certainly take it for granted that somebody is inevitably going to bring up the Tom Brady Sexual Harassment sketch from Saturday Night Live as though it were some sort of “Drop-the-mic” debate-winning argument rather…
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