Tag: relationships
Dating When You’ve Had a Bad Childhood
In the course of any adult life, there will be periods when we’ll end up involved in that slightly odd, slightly unrepresentative and invariably slightly challenging activity: looking. Most people around us won’t be any the wiser, but with greater or lesser subtlety, we will be scanning: suggesting coffees and lunches, accepting every invitation, giving […]
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The Knight Before Christmas starring Vanessa Hudgens | Official Trailer | Netflix
We all grow up fantasizing about finding true love with a knight in shining armor and living happily ever after. But that’s all it is. Fantasy. Are you okay? Fear not. I’ve been thrown much further by much faster horses than your steel steed. Not a scratch on him. But apparently he believes he’s a […]
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Your Cure For Habitual Lateness Is Here
(keyboard clacking) (suspenseful music) – Trevor! (loudly gasps) I’m you from the future. (eerie music) Tonight, actually, it doesn’t matter. You need to get to your anniversary date with Ann now. – Wait, wait why? – Because we’re gonna be late, like we always are. And she’s gonna break up with you over it. – […]
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A Brother’s Heart to Heart | {THE AND} Tom & Dan
– How do you think your parents would react if you brought me home as your partner? (laughing) – Oh my God. Wow, I was not expecting that. (computer mouse clicking) – Oh, this is like the most skin deep question ever, I feel like. What do you think I’m hesitant to tell you? – […]
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Gay Men Are Bad At Dating…
ah what a nice cup of piping hot tea on this cozy autumn evening hot take the gays are bad at dating hello beautiful people today we’re gonna talk a little bit more about gay dating last week I discussed my Grindr alternatives to gay dating and not not bashing on Grindr give that a […]
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Why You’ll Never Find the Right Person
Your fears are right: you probably won’t ever find the right person. It seems harsh to say it just now but the right partner for you doesn’t really exist: there are just different varieties and degrees of wrongness. It’s not your fault or theirs. Anyone, however lovely they seem at first, will turn out to […]
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The Only Question You Need to Ask on a First Date – Sam Morril
I’m in therapy, obviously, and I see a therapist who sees a few other comedians. Like, I know comics that go to the same therapist as me. I was in the waiting room the other day, and I actually heard my therapist laugh through the door. And I was like, “Ugh. I got to bring […]
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How to Get Married
What to Do If You Hate Small Talk
A lot of discomfort about going to social engagements is rooted in what can sound like a rather high-minded concern: a hatred of small talk. We can develop a dread of parties because we know how likely we are to end up wedged into conversations about the weather, parking, traffic or the way we plan […]
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How to Get Attention Without Attention-seeking
One of the most obvious but in practice very hardest things to ask a partner, even one we name in our will and whose life is entirely entwined with ours, is: ‘Do you still love me?’ There would be so many reasons why they might not do so anymore: we might have driven them to […]
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