myTakes: Relationships

There is an age old saying that men are the gatekeeper's of commitment, while women are the gatekeeper's of sex. Women use sex to get commitment from men and men show they have resources/high status to lure women into...

Society breeds the concept of "the one". Finding that ideal partner who ticks a number of boxes, and is the mate made in heaven that will fulfill all their fantasies and needs. Is it true though? Does such a person exist...

I have learned this the hard way in the past. But once you and the person you are seeing get passed the flirting/first date phase. There is very important things to discuss before getting seriously involved. So I made a...

I don't actually believe that there's any real science to astrology but I do have fun reading about it, especially in regards to relationships. I never really gave two shits about it until my girlfriend started sending me...

People say the holidays are the most stressful time of the year. Well, that's arguable. For many, Valentine's Day is just unwanted stress during a dreary time of year. And you know, it doesn't really matter if you're in a...

You Are Not Enough Running on this treadmill you think in your head " I am not enough" and every time you feel that pain, that sting, you push harder you fight stronger until you ran five miles when a month ago you...

I have an assumption, and perhaps I’m not the only one, that most girls already have boyfriends and that those who don’t are likely to lie about it. 1. Why assume this? So why have I come up with such an assumption? I...

I'm a young guy. I'm 21 years old, and im in a generation of terrible people with terrible minds. Sometimes i feel like im stuck in a world that im not supposed to be in. Sometimes i wake up, and i feel like there's just...

Fostering a relationship in a demanding world like that of our own we often, forget a many major important events thing extremely crucial to the significant other, that is, either male or female. Time is also a very...

Ah, The Challenge. When you meet one of those old school girls that makes you "wait" not only for sex, but to date her, to be in a relationship with her, to meet her friends etc. She provides in as simple terms as...

A lot of people who become traditionalist as a counter culture. However, it's not really taught what are the roles of the guys in these kinds of relationships. If you have a woman enjoys doing anything to make the guy...

With the rise of online dating as an extremely (and surprising) form of meeting potential partners, it follows that long distance relationships are, as well, becoming more popular. For anyone who’s been in one or a few,...

To me? Ballroom dancing is the most beautiful and sublime expression of a masculine/feminine relationship. It's the metaphor I reach for whenever I try to discuss what I believe to be the perfect harmony between the...

You sign up for this site asking questions about what you should do to resolve a relationship dilemma, Then before you know it, you get involved with someone and for some reason it triggers sense of emotions and feelings...

In a relationship, there is always that fear of loosing the one you are with to another man or woman. However, it can be drastically influenced by your prior experiences, and sometimes it's hard to,if you ever, regain the...

There is a big difference between being friend zoned and he/she just not being into you. Being friend zoned involves being put off as being a brother/sister whilst they continue to look for their ideal partner who is a...

I've said before that I have, officially, stopped believing in love. However, whenever I say that, I am always met with the same bullshit rebuddle about love being a chemical process in the brain, or a universal force...

A couple months ago I met this amazing girl named (y). I saw her 3 times before we actually had a conversation. We then began hanging out with each other from then on. Turns out we knew a lot of the same people but we...

I was naive in my youth and I gave my heart away like drops of rain in the spring. Her name was Hayley and her father abandoned her and he left her mother and started a second family. Her father would forget to call on...

Bitterness is a natural by-product of being hurt on one or more occasion and as natural as bitterness is, it's self-defeating, it traps the man in a vicious cycle and only heaps on the misery already inflicted upon him by...