Welcome to our new column, Relationship Fails, where we'll be showcasing the disastrous, hilarious, sad, and pathetic things people do online in the name of love. Our first installment is a doozy we found on Craigslist—you'll have to read it to believe it.
Maintaining relationships can be difficult business, and it only grows more complicated as the time and emotion you invest into a partner increases. As expected, you won’t always get along. There will be plenty of arguments over finances, the clashing personalities of friends and family as well as over little things like how he always leaves the quart of milk in the fridge with not even enough for a bowl of Special K. If your relationship is strong enough, it will breeze right past the small stuff, but sometimes even the strongest relationships will find themselves at a point of no return.
Those tell-tale signs that your relationship is taking a turn for the worse, that for some reason you haven't seemed to notice? We like to call these "red flags," and apparently we're pretty good at ignoring them when we don't want to admit to the reality of things: that the guy we’re dating is a complete douche and it's time to give him the boot.
It's the relationship advice we wish our mothers had shared with us when we were younger. Funny and engaging yet brutally honest, The Little Black Book of Big Red Flags shares the dating warning signs you should be aware of -- or you'll be sorry later.
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If you’ve tried online dating and ended up frustrated, emotionally drained and feeling like you wasted your time, you’ve probably made some very common mistakes. Avoid these 12 online dating don’ts, and you’ll have a much better experience the next time around.
A “dating trap” is an unconscious relationship choice that results in an unsolvable problem in a relationship. Getting out of the trap often means leaving the relationship. When you're single, by practicing Conscious Dating you can do a lot more than you realize to avoid these traps and prepare for a lasting and successful relationship. 1. Marketing Trap
As you take the dog out for a walk, you come across your new neighbor walking his dog. He is attractive, smart and single. You stop for a brief chat. Unfortunately, it’s not your lucky day. You have just been laid off from work and haven’t had a shower for almost two days, your hair looks like you just got out of bed, and you smell like old garlic. “I don’t normally look this way … or smell this way”, you say without thinking. “What?”, Hottie says, “Oh… that’s OK”
Five Ways Women Can Sabotage a First Date 1. Being Too Picky – It is very important to understand what you want in a relationship, however, not everything you want should carry the same weight. For example, you might want a man with dark hair, but if a wonderful blonde showed up, you might want to reconsider. It’s important to have your top ten must haves and your top ten deal breakers. But if your list of must haves is actually five pages long, than you are too picky.
There are certain relationship mistakes men make over and over again. And, most of the time, us guys won't tell you about it until it's too late. Let's nip this in the bud, shall we? Let's be reasonable and let's make this thing work and let's leave the armchair quarterbacking to the guys on ESPN.
According to a science report (we picked it up from the crazy sombitches at Asylum), people who feel pressured to be attractive are more likely to fear rejection. While it probably doesn't take the University of Buffalo (or the University of Kent, for that matter) to tell us that people hung up on their looks place a lot of stock in what other people think about their appearance, the study does have some other interesting finds.
There are certain relationship mistakes women make over and over again. And, most of the time, us guys won't tell you about it until it's too late. Let's nip this in the bud, shall we? Let's be reasonable and let's make this thing work and let's leave Dr. Phil-isms to daytime television.
