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How To Call Out Bad Behavior Without Seeming Controlling

One of the biggest difficulties guys have in dating isn’t understanding ideas around attraction conceptually. It’s calibrating them effectively in practice. Which is why I wanted to highlight two tweets from the great Nash I saw on Twitter recently: These are masterful examples of how to handle two of the biggest “disrespectful” behaviors guys encounter

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The Power of Expressiveness

Recently had a tweet go viral about a girl getting some street food: It’s funny what gets attention and what doesn’t. This was a throwaway comment, but apparently the last thing you want to do today is come between a western woman and her psychiatric medication. YetI stand by what I said about more and

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Your Capacity To Stay

Last night, like most nights, my daughter broke down crying. It was time for my wife to put my son to bed, which meant “mama” — the person she loved most in the world — was once again going to leave her. My daughter is a nearly 2 and a half, and this sort of

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Why Adults Have No Friends

A reader writes in: I’m nearing the end of grad school and took some time to isolate and think, take inventory. I realized I’ve become miserable to the fact that I have no social circle anymore. In high school I was in the football team, in college I made new friends at the boxing gym

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