Author Archive: Matt Bird

As bad as it is later in life to get over a relationship, it’s much, much worse when you’re a teenager. Why? Well, chances are pretty good it was your first relationship, and whether it was good or not you…
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The idea that talking to your boyfriend is somehow difficult seems, at first, a bit ludicrous. Talking is easy: just open your mouth and let words spill out. If he’s in the vicinity he’ll likely respond. There, you are talking….
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The single life has its perks, but it isn’t for everyone. Indeed, most people will, eventually, want permanent companionship of their own, or at least someone with whom they can spend a year or two in happy couplehood. (Perhaps they…
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For a few daunting swingers asking someone out is as simple as walking up to them and saying “Hey, how you doin’?” in typically Joey-from-Friends fashion. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t – and when it doesn’t these confident, headstrong…
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Trust. It’s one of the rarest things to truly enter a relationship, and in some cases it may never materialize; indeed two people can be together for years on end yet never truly open up with one another and act…
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Nobody wants a pouty girlfriend. Ideally a girlfriend should be bright and chipper at all times – and even if they aren’t, we boyfriends (and fellow girlfriends, yes, let’s not neglect you) should at least be trying to put a…
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Men? Cheat on women? When they’re in a relationship? What a bizarre concept. And so foreign to our gender! … yes, well, poor lies aside, men do cheat. Women do, too, but men seem to perpetrate the crime a little…
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Generally speaking, the easiest way to bridge the gap between ‘friends’ and ‘more than friends’ is the simple application of the boyfriend or girlfriend label. If you have one of the two, you’re more than friends. But it’s not always…
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It really sucks to break up with someone and then have them stuck in your head. This is practically an inevitability for some people: they have trouble letting go, regardless of how bad their relationship was, and they’ll refuse to…
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Whether you liked your ex or not, chances are good you’ll always harbor some regrets about leaving them. There’s usually at least one or two things they did right that nobody else seems capable of matching. And that is perfectly…
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I’d like to think I’m not a jerk, or at least not in the dating sense. I can be a crabby SOB at times, sure, but I try to treat the fairer sex with a certain degree of respect. In…
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For guys, one of the first major milestones in life – not to mention fear-worthy moments – is asking out a girl. There couldn’t be anything tougher than doing this, despite how easy it may seem later on in life,…
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Much like offline dating, online dating needs to be done with a certain amount of panache and understanding. Saying something along the lines of: ‘hi asl wnna date’ Would probably be about as successful in wooing a partner as this…
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Gold diggers are the leeches of the dating world. Seldom out for companionship or love, these guys and gals – yes, let’s not be foolish, there are plenty of male gold diggers – just want to use their new companion…
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So you and your partner have gone your separate ways. A tragic loss, that, but perhaps an inevitable one. Most relationships do end eventually, and not through the death do you part routine. People lose interest and split up. Simple…
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Man, do breakups EVER go smoothly? By their very nature breakups are meant to be turbulent affairs: you’re splitting up two people who have, for possibly a long time, had an emotional investment in one another. It’d be no big…
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Breakups are terrible, aren’t they? One minute you’re enjoying the boons of a happy romance, cuddling and laughing and loving together, and the next your relationship is sitting in a dumpster along with your heart. Yuck. Don’t despair. Despite how…
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I may be a guy myself, but that doesn’t mean I can’t recognize the signs of fading interest. Indeed if anything I can see them more acutely in relationships than the woman herself, as I’ve struggled against some of the…
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For the most part kissing is a learned art. You can read about it as much as you like, but every article in the world probably won’t prepare you for that epic first kiss. And even after the first, you…
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