DATING MAKES PEOPLE CRAZY! AND YELL AT THEIR MONITORS!!!
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DATING MAKES PEOPLE CRAZY! AND YELL AT THEIR MONITORS!!!
RE: http://theboard.byu.edu/index.php?area=viewall&id=37901
Yellow may ban comments on the Board, but he can't stop me from creating a poll. Give me insane relationship questions or give me death!
Note that I am entirely ignoring the question*-asker, but rather, asking you to vote on the wittiest, funniest, or most helpful of the writers' responses. Prizes may be involved.
Incidentally, I think "A Slap" is Uffish and that Queen Gertrude is Whistler or K&G.
*In the loosest sense of the word.
Yellow may ban comments on the Board, but he can't stop me from creating a poll. Give me insane relationship questions or give me death!
Note that I am entirely ignoring the question*-asker, but rather, asking you to vote on the wittiest, funniest, or most helpful of the writers' responses. Prizes may be involved.
Incidentally, I think "A Slap" is Uffish and that Queen Gertrude is Whistler or K&G.
*In the loosest sense of the word.
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Ok, so I attend a failing single's branch when I'm home for the summer, and I was reading a book that someone brought to something cause it was just lying around. It was called "The Rules" and it made me laugh. It's about how to get a man, right? One of the tips is to never call a guy and try really hard to not return his calls. You, aparently, want him to be chasing you, and you don't want him to know that you like him. I don't wonder any longer why no one dates in this branch.
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"And did you know, Monsieur Marius, I do believe I was a little in love with you..."
Eponine
"And did you know, Monsieur Marius, I do believe I was a little in love with you..."
the rules
dude! i totally read that book for my "writing in the social sciences" class at byu. i'd never heard of it, but it was on a list of books that we could read to write reviews, and i pretty much trashed the whole thing hardcore. then last year there was this guy in my ward who actually owned his own copy of it so that he could like use it on girls and stuff... or use it against them? ...or something?...he brought it to our apartment for my sister to read b/c he thought , yeah... anyway, she was really mad and took it back to him without reading it... and now she's married and i don't even know that he has a girlfriend...haha! that book may work sometimes, but it still pisses me off. it's just the rules for playing the game, but playing games is so jr. high. grow up. be honest with people. you might not date a lot, but when you do it'll be a lot less complicated. not that i've ever managed to have anything uncomplicated, but i'd like to.
well, wisteria, you're right... but, in my defense, i did say less complicated... i suppose statements like that, in order to be accurate, ought to be qualified in terms of types or degrees of complication... but, let's face it, that might not be possible... that's what makes them complicated, right? haha!
uncomplicated dating
I'd like to say that I've had two uncomplicated dating experiences. My first boyfriend was in high school and we liked each other, smooched, and broke up: pretty straight-forward.
My second and current boyfriend (there was a mission and another boy or two in between) was pretty straight-forward as well. We became best friends, liked each other, and still do. The only complicated part was when I tried dating while he was on the mission.
I'm also lucky to be able to say that all of my breakups have been really nice.
It depends on how you deal with it, really.
My second and current boyfriend (there was a mission and another boy or two in between) was pretty straight-forward as well. We became best friends, liked each other, and still do. The only complicated part was when I tried dating while he was on the mission.
I'm also lucky to be able to say that all of my breakups have been really nice.
It depends on how you deal with it, really.
Yay! Thanks for proving me wrong, Krebscout. I feel the world is a slightly happier place now. I'm not being sarcastic, either. And Mabel, I was looking at the last bit of your post where you said "not that I've ever managed to have anything uncomplicated, but I'd like to" as my reference for stating that uncomplicated dating is a myth. I think the reason I've never had an uncomplicated dating experience is that I've never had a mutual breakup. It makes it a lot harder when one person still wants to keep going and the other doesn't.
wisteria, i like that i know you in real life because...well, just cuz this seems more fun that way...haha. anyway...
i've never had a mutual breakup either. in fact, i've never had anything mutual enough to make it anything to break up. so when i say dating is complicated i don't just mean relationships are complicated, i mean just the whole concept is complicated. i'm sure it isn't that way for everybody, but it is for me. wisteria is probably vaguely familiar with my sister, who lived with me until recently when she got married. she met her husband on a blind date. they hit it off right from the start. some people have all the luck...
i've never had a mutual breakup either. in fact, i've never had anything mutual enough to make it anything to break up. so when i say dating is complicated i don't just mean relationships are complicated, i mean just the whole concept is complicated. i'm sure it isn't that way for everybody, but it is for me. wisteria is probably vaguely familiar with my sister, who lived with me until recently when she got married. she met her husband on a blind date. they hit it off right from the start. some people have all the luck...
complications
Hmmm . . .anyone else agree with me that while having an S.O. is great and all, that it is not necessarily less complicated, and even perhaps more so?
Maybe I just don't have that innate need for a boyfriend shared by so many 'round here, yet they seem to keep popping up. Or, that I am the type of person towards whom people are indifferent or really like, so I have gone on precious few typical "dates."
Maybe I just don't have that innate need for a boyfriend shared by so many 'round here, yet they seem to keep popping up. Or, that I am the type of person towards whom people are indifferent or really like, so I have gone on precious few typical "dates."