Author Archives: Someone to Desire

Abandoned



Anúncio OnlineHotel QUESTION: I’ve been dating this amazing guy for a month. We had a really strong bond and we could spend hours upon hours just talking about our lives. We were fine, although he would talk about his fears of what would happen in the future when he had [...]

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Random Q & A (Part V)



Anúncio OnlineHotel QUESTION: Do you believe it’s possible for people can fall in love within the first few weeks? ARIANA: Yes, I mean anything is possible. Do I think that’s a sufficient amount of time to build a lasting meaningful relationship? No. Often the quickly ignited fiery relationships, passionate, etc…the [...]

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Top 5 Dating Texts of the Week (Part IX)



We just can’t get enough of your dating texts. And we think our own are funny, but some of you got us beat. There’s some beauty in the bluntness and realness of a crazy dating text. But, the best thing is that 1) we have close friend to share our [...]

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Exclusive



QUESTION: I recently started talking to this awesome guy. He’s a strong, confident, giving man. He always makes me a priority and always gets back to me whenever I text or call. Recently, we had a discussion about talking to other people and he told me to go ahead flirting [...]

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Random Q & A (Part IV)



QUESTION: What do you think about a couple waiting til marriage for sex? If a guy is willing to do that, that’s pretty serious, right? ANSWER: It is definitely not the norm. But, for a girl, it shows the guy is really serious about her, I think. And that he’s [...]

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Love at First Sight



QUESTION: I recently started dating a really great guy. Things are literally PERFECT! We have great chemistry. We can talk for hours on end. We are really close but have only been dating a few weeks. We feel like we’ve known each other and when we’re together we’re always gazing [...]

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Top 5 Dating Texts of the Week (Part VIII)



People are funny. And we can never stop laughing at the funny texts we receive. We love them, don’t stop, they really are funny! We want to keep it going! We did include a lovey dovey one this time because it is very sweet. Hey, we’re in the dating world, [...]

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Military Travels



QUESTION: So I went on a last minute trip with a few friends to Miami about a month ago and I actually met a guy. Not just any guy though, I met a smoking hot, mature, financially stable, military man. We only hung out one night.  But we had awesome [...]

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Random Q & A (Part III)



Random, that’s about what dating life is around here.  We’re watching our own team going through some changes, all good changes though.  But, new relationships here, taking breaks from dating, people preparing to date, and relationships ending.  It’s the circle of dating life!  So, we see questions from here to [...]

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Top 5 Dating Texts of the Week (Part VII)



We are beginning to love this feature, the wow text messages just don’t stop. Keep them coming! If you’re shocked reading your text messages then you can believe we will be too. But, that’s not a bad thing, we always say sharing is caring!

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Pimping 101 for Ladies



Picking up a guy is not always as easy as it seems!  In some cases, it’s downright next to impossible to even get a guy to buy you a drink!  I mean c’mon, I’m not even ugly!  Over the years, however, I’ve learned a few simple techniques to pick up [...]

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Unbelievably Wacky Week Happenings, Part VII



Wacky!!! It’s wacky time! Maybe we’ve had a little too much Red Bull and coffee, which is why we’re off the wall with excitement. Or maybe it’s because 25 days til our new website launch!! Big things poppin. So grammatically incorrect of us, but we love that saying! Anyhoo, you [...]

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Random Q & A (Part II)



Q: I met a wonderful guy, but he doesn’t want to be officially boyfriend and girlfriend. But we talk and text all day every day and he even drove an hour to come see me and have dinner with me the other day. He said he’ll wait til marriage for [...]

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‘Pimping’ Lines and Awkward Happenings (Part VIII)



Well, we try not to disappoint for pimping lines and awkward happenings, and thanks to you guys, we don’t. I mean, really, who of us, really knows how to do all these dating rules and such. And we all know they’re fluid. But we try and then things like today’s [...]

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Top 5 Dating Texts of the Week (Part VI)



Wow, we got such a great response with our recent addition of screen captures for top texts that we decided we’ll keep posting the unthinkable. There’s a very funny element to be seen when the personal, unedited thoughts come out! Oh, yes, it’s the truth we will speak and wanna [...]

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Love at First Sight



QUESTION: I met the most amazing man recently. I had just gotten out of a terrible dating experience with a guy who was very confused and took my emotions for a ride. It was so bad that I decided to cut off all the guys I was dating and scrub [...]

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Top 5 Dating Texts of the Week (Part V)



We scrounged around and got ‘em.  Straight screen captures of some crazy text messages.  Some of these are new to me.  I’d have to say my friends are pretty stable compared the tricks these screen captures of text messages are speaking of.  They’re fun, they’re raw (again), they’re real.  Oh, [...]

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Random Q & A (Part I, Updated)



Hey, we’re all about change. And if you feel like trying it out, do it! Who knows where it could go? That’s the exact reason we’re just putting some random Q & A we’ve gotten from our readers. I mean, some are mundane, but really, it seems that somehow our [...]

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Unbelievably Wacky Week Happenings, Part VI (Updated)



Wacky wacky wacky, I’m beginning to think that the dictionary meaning of dating is wacky. Is anybody with me on that? In fact, I think there is more wacky than there is anything else. Sometimes I wonder if people grew up in their backyards. I’m sure they wonder about the [...]

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Friends with Benefits Relationship


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  QUESTION: I have a friend who has a guy friend who she has been hanging out with for over a month.  She is interested in having something more with this guy.  But, unfortunately, their relationship started out as a ‘friends with benefits’ hookup and is still that way now. They [...]

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Top 5 Dating Texts of the Week (Part IV)



Anything goes folks. We all get pissed, frustrated and upset when it comes to dating, I mean, who wouldn’t. But it’s Friday, we need a laugh and well, why not just laugh at dating. If you’re having struggles, why not laugh at them, it makes it a lot easier to [...]

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‘Pimping’ Lines and Awkward Happenings (Part VII)



This week is a lot more awkward than it is pimp. It seems hard to find pimping lines lately. People just seem to do funny things. What can we say, we all know the best of us are always super rational when it comes to relations with the opposite sex. [...]

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Unbelievably Wacky Week Happenings, Part VII



Wow, what happened?? It’s been a while since we’ve had our wacky dating stories. We know we’ve had them, they must’ve gotten misplaced. But behold, we found them. It’s Tuesday, Valentine’s Day, so maybe Valentine’s Day is a good day to roll out a little laughs. You’ll be thankful for [...]

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Top 5 Dating Texts of the Week (Part III)



It’s raw, it’s the truth. It’s unedited thoughts about your dating life and well, some will make your jaw drop or say ‘OMG’. We say it here all the time. I think we use ‘OMG’ more than we use the word ‘the’. If you saw the dating world on a [...]

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Dust Yourself Off and Try Again


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http://youtu.be/xcIvIladNnQ   QUESTION: It’s almost Valentine’s Day 2012 and I’ve been out of the dating scene since 2007, staying on the straight and narrow.  Living the pure life, not being promiscuous, being the good “Christian”.  Well, I’ve been frequenting a local salsa studio.  One “lady” has been flirting with me [...]

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No Takebacks



QUESTION: I left my ex of 8 yrs about 2 yrs ago with our 2 daughters. We moved out of Cali and back to Hawaii where my family is from. I got fed up with his casual parenting. He would only show up when he felt like it and didn’t [...]

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Truth and Habits



QUESTION: I recently moved back home after being gone for 15 yrs in Cali for school, then work. And I have met a great guy who was my cousin’s good friend. He was charming, sweet, funny, and really good looking. I wasn’t sure why he was interested in me, I [...]

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Faithful to DC


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Got Your Back QUESTION: I was recently at a bar and a girl approached me to hook me up with her friend. The friend started talking to my friend. And she and I looked at each other puzzled. I ended up talking to a cougar most of the night, so [...]

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Faithful to DC



QUESTION: I was recently at a bar and a girl approached me to hook me up with her friend. The friend started talking to my friend. And she and I looked at each other puzzled. I ended up talking to a cougar most of the night, so that’s all I [...]

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Top 5 Dating Texts of the Week (Part II)


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Man, it always gets down and dirty around here. And when it comes to texting, there is never a disappointing moment. One, your words really are captured forever and then texting really is a cross between posting comments online and a private conversation. Anything’s bound to come out and with [...]

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Past is the Past


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QUESTION: I’ve been dating this girl for 3 months and she’s wonderful in every way. She’s a really strong Christian, a great mom to her 2 teenagers, loyal to me, kind to everyone, beautiful but simple, and very family oriented. I really do think she could be the one. So, [...]

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Spreading Yourself Thin


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QUESTION I am new to the dating game. I just got divorced from a 10 yr marriage last year, so I’m new to all this. I’ll give these guys nicknames cause there’s a lot of them. I saw Fembot, the guy I am smitten with but we had drama the [...]

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Unbelievably Wacky Week Happenings, Part VI


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Wacky wacky wacky, I’m beginning to think that the dictionary meaning of dating is wacky. Is anybody with me on that? In fact, I think there is more wacky than there is anything else. Sometimes I wonder if people grew up in their backyards. I’m sure they wonder about the [...]

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‘Pimping’ Lines and Awkward Happenings (Part VI)


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So, it looks like this week, we hit a variety of things. You can never know what to expect when it comes to dating. All rational goes out the door and it gets aw-kward!! If only people would stop checking their brains at the door before they leave the house [...]

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Top 5 Dating Texts of the Week (Part I)


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We like to entertain. And dating is entertaining. Whether we like it or not, we think about it, talk about it, laugh about it, and dread it. This is the best of the best, the inner workings of those daters and datees out there. And where better to hear the [...]

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Meth in my Life


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QUESTION: I was dating a guy for 3 years and he was using steroids for over a year while we were together and I didn’t know. One night after I got upset after seeing a text from a girl he used to talk to, he went into a rage. He [...]

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Be a Marine Wife


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QUESTION: Last year I fell in love with a Marine pilot who I thought was my soulmate. Not a day has gone by when I haven’t thought about him or prayed for him. He was scared to get in a relationship and was afraid to hurt me. I knew he [...]

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Only the Committed


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QUESTION: I’m not the best boyfriend, in fact, I think I’m one of the worst. I dated a girl 4 years ago for 4 years and I caused her so much hurt and pain from my selfishness. She got hospitalized for overdosing on some pain meds after we had a [...]

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Cali Cali Cali, Here I Come


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QUESTION: I recently had a girl from my past that I used to talk to, contacted me on facebook. She lives back home in Cali and I’ll be moving back there in 2 months after my training for my job in the Army reserves is over. I couldn’t believe she [...]

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What is a Soulmate?


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QUESTION I met this guy a month ago, but I really feel as though I’ve met my soulmate. From the first night, I knew something was different when we looked into each other’s eyes and it was if we were staring into each other’s souls. We are both engineers, but [...]

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‘Pimping’ Lines and Awkward Happenings (Part V)


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I’m sitting here eating my candy bar at 1 in the morning try to think write this up and I told myself I would probably run from a guy who’s eating candy bar and drinking soda at this hour like I am. Anyhow, I digress. It’s only the 5th day [...]

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Love Songs Don’t Stop


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QUESTION I really think I’ve fallen for a guy I just started dating a few months ago. I swear I am smitten to the point I almost want to say the L word. Right now he’s on a 2 week trip in Europe he decided to go on last minute [...]

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Unbelievably Wacky Week Happenings, Part V


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Okay. 10 hours left and it’s 2012! So, this is our last post of the year and the last of the wackiness for this year. I’m sure we’ll have more wacky next year, after all, dating brings out the most wackiness in all of us! Even the best of the [...]

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Confused Love Songs


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QUESTION: I have been talking to this guy for the last month and I am so confused. When we’re together, things are amazing. We get along so great. We have a really strong vibe and it feels like we’ve been together forever. There’s time when he looks me in the [...]

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Fish in the Sea


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QUESTION I made a big mistake. I have been friends with my Navy classmate for a couple months now and I really wasn’t interested in her when I first met her. I just didn’t really have an attraction to her and she wasn’t my typical kind of girl that I’m [...]

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‘Pimping’ Lines and Awkward Happenings (Part IV)


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Yeah. It’s been a while since we’ve published those pimping lines that are just a plain fail or make you scratch your head. As in, don’t use these lines! Bad, bad, bad ideas! Here we go: ** A guy asks my girlfriend, ‘where did you get your glittery shirt from, [...]

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USMC Wife Bound


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QUESTION: I’m a single mom and I’ve been dating this Marine for a year. I adore the guy and would do anything for him. I would support him through deployments, take care of him and believe and respect him. We talk about getting married soon before he gets deployed to [...]

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Unbelievably Wacky Week Happenings, Part IIII


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Wacky #1: I was watching my favorite local band and met another ‘groupie’. She was fun to chill with and dance. Then her fiancé came up and he smiled at me. Then he rubs my butt. He walks away to get a drink and I awkwardly tell her that the [...]

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Soldier Boy


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QUESTION: I’m in a town with a bunch of military guys and every time I go out, I meet a Marine, Air Force guy, Navy guy, and even one Army guy. I just moved to this town, so this is new to me to have military guys talk to me. [...]

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Hungry Spice


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QUESTION: I have this guy I’ve been talking to for a few weeks now. He’s a really good guy, but he always teases me about how I like food. At first it was funny, then it started to bother me. We were supposed to have our first official date tomorrow, [...]

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Ride the Wave


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QUESTION: Last night I went on a 2nd date with a really great girl that has caught my attention and none have really at all in the past 2 years. She’s similar to me, very reserved, really thinks things through, and is kinda quiet. I was a little nervous because [...]

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Replay


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QUESTION: Last night at the club, I ran into the girl I had been talking to for a couple weeks. I had just stopped returning her texts a week before because I just didn’t want to get into a relationship like she wanted and rightly deserved. I met her in [...]

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Feed Me


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QUESTION: I’ve been dating or whatever you want to call it with this guy I’ve known for 3 weeks. It’s been okay, we get along, but the only thing we do is lounge around his house all day. I love being out and about, so I’m getting really irritated that [...]

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911


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QUESTION: My girlfriend and I and our daughter just came back from NYC and it was a nightmare. I’m exhausted because I had to spend the last 3 days trying to get her get out of the psych ER there, not to mention it was worse since it fell around [...]

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First Date Failure to Launch


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QUESTION: I recently met a cute guy who’s in the Marines and is leaving for his next duty station next week. We went out on our first date and I never give any guy a chance. The last date I went on was 5 months ago. The night started out [...]

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Light of Day


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QUESTION: I’ve been dating a Marine flight instructor for the past couple weeks. I met him a couple weeks ago at a late night club in town. My sister actually pushed me into him and we started dancing. This guy started acting real into me, pulling me close, holding my [...]

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Who Are You?


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QUESTION: I’ve been talking with this Marine officer pilot the last couple weeks and things seems to be going well. Anyhow, I got in touch with one of my Marine buddies recently who I haven’t talked to in a while and I told him about the guy I was talking [...]

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Missed Dates


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QUESTION: I met a really great guy through a friend the day before Thanksgiving. We clicked really well. We went late night eating afterwards and he paid for both my sister and I. He complimented me all night on how beautiful I was and even my friends talked about how [...]

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Doing it for the friends


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QUESTION: Recently my buddies and I met a few girls at a club while we were stationed a new duty station. It was almost time to go. I walked out of the bathroom to meet my buddy who had been chillin waiting for me. As soon as I walked out, [...]

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Unbelievably Wacky Week Happenings, Part III


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It’s about that time for the wacky week happenings. You know you want to send in your wacky stories, so send it in. We’d love to hear it. We’ll give your our wacky factor rating and you’ll have the pleasure of sharing your story. Trust us, it’s very freeing. Wacky [...]

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‘Pimping’ Lines and Awkward Happenings (Part III)


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Just when you think you’ve heard it all in pick up lines, then you run into a few more that just make you say ‘Wow’. Hey, people get creative, it’s what our human minds do best. We think we’re clever. Sometimes we are, sometimes we’re not. But, c’mon some of [...]

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Give a Little and Fear a Little Less


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Q: I’ve dated 20 guys in the last year since I’ve broken it off with my ex of 4 years. Before that I was in 2 other relationships for a few years. I used to always thinking I was a relationship kind of girl. But now that I’m trying to [...]

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Fights That Never End


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QUESTION: I love my girlfriend of 5 years without a doubt. She’s one of the most amazing women I’ve ever known. She is very much like my mom in a lot of ways, even in the same annoying ways my mom has. She blows everything out of proportion and gets [...]

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Move on Time


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QUESTION: It’s me again, I was the girl who was partying a lot and my ex moved our daughter out of state. Well, I didn’t really take your advice and I just kept up my partying lifestyle. I was just so hurt that my daughter was not with me so [...]

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‘Pimping’ Lines and Awkward Happenings (Part II)


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Let’s face it, sometime the lines people use in the dating game are just downright silly. I don’t know if they get it out of a pickup line dating book or they have their top 5, but some of us are not dumb enough to believe them. Instead we may [...]

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Unbelievably Wacky Week Happenings, Part II’


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You know there’s always something wacky going on at STD. And well, that’s pretty much true for everywhere, the world is wacky. And if you’re not seeing it, then you must be asleep or hiding under a rock. If you don’t have wacky, it will come looking for you. As [...]

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Invisible Family Ties


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Q: I’m currently in the Navy and stationed out of state. I’ve been here for a few years since I signed up for the Navy. My wife and I moved here from the East Coast. And what I thought was supposed to be a happy event, we got pregnant. I [...]

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But I Thought It was a Frog


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Q: Hindsight is always 20/20. How could I be so blind to what a great guy I was letting go of 10 yrs ago. We were young when we first met, I had just gotten out of college and moved out of state. I was at a prime in my [...]

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Choices Overload


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Q: I am so confused. I have way too many things going on right now. Six months ago, I broke up with my boyfriend of 10 yr and made all the changes–confidence, makeup, clothing–I pretty much look my best all the time. I carry a lot of confidence with me [...]

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Unbelievably Wacky Week Happenings, Part I


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So, another new feature we plan on implementing is the ‘Unbelievably Wacky Week Happenings, Part I’. This series will feature stories of wacky happenings in our readers dating life and relationships. Because we all know that sometimes love and dating is just plain wacky, sometimes downright weird and more often [...]

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‘Pimping’ Lines and Awkward Happenings


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Yes, the age old game of throwing lines out during the dating game in the beginning. We’ve all heard them, we’ve used some of them, but sometimes there’s just some that stand out from the rest. Either they’re so far fetched, ridiculous, and sometimes downright funny. There’s also those awkward [...]

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Dating Ms. Gossip


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Q:  I swear I am dating the queen of gossip.  I’ve been with my girlfriend for 2 years and she tells her girl friends and family everything when we have an argument or disagreement.  She tells me it’s because I don’t listen to her and she needs someone to talk [...]

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Stuck in Friend Zone


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Q:  I have a girl friend that I’ve been hanging out with for a while now.  We are good friends, but I really like her.  She broke up with her ex 6 months ago, so I started trying to make my move and upped my efforts.  I started asking her to [...]

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Dating World Series (Part III)


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Special multiple series posts, original part I can be found at: http://smalltowndating.wordpress.com/2011/10/29/dating-world-series-part-i/   Part II can be found at:  :  http://smalltowndating.wordpress.com/2011/10/29/dating-world-series-part-ii/ QUESTION: Yeah, me again, yes me for the 3rd time! I’m clueless and confused. I should just hire you as my own personal ‘Hitch’. I know I didn’t listen the [...]

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Dating World Series (Part II)


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Special multiple series posts, original part I can be found at:  http://smalltowndating.wordpress.com/2011/10/29/dating-world-series-part-i/ QUESTION: It’s me again, needing more help in the same guy situation with Navy school boy.  We continued text messaging back and forth each day, less than we did initially.  But, we still talk.  We finally went out [...]

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Dating World Series (Part I)


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QUESTION: I really thought I found something special this time, as special as the Rangers being in the World Series for the 2nd time in a row. My best friend and I were walking downtown to a bar to meet some friends when she saw a couple of Navy guys [...]

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Beach Bum Formal Wear


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Q: I have one of the sexiest, good looking guys ever. I mean, he is GQ model hot. He also happens to be a great guy, so I got really lucky! The only thing is that because he’s a professional surfer, he wears nothing but surfer wear. He has a [...]

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Polar opposites



Q: I’ve been dating this girl for 3 months now and things are going great. We workout together, volunteer together, and study together. We even pray together. And she’s also an energtic, fun, and sweet girl. I can talk to her about anything. I’ve been through some tough times with [...]

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Far flung


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Q: I had the greatest week of my life earlier this month. I live in Augusta, but I was in Atlanta for a week for work. A month earlier when I was in Charleston visiting some friends, I happened to meet this guy. He was a friend of a friend, [...]

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Text message date


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Q: This is total role reversal and I’m not sure what to do. I hang out at a local bar in town and I met a kick ass girl. She seemed cool enough to chill and get to know, so we exchanged phone numbers. We never really hung out after [...]

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