Polls: Relationships

A few friends / colleagues have set me up with their cousins or friends - and though I've been around say Egyptians & Indians and what not for a LONG time, been invited to Egypt, India and Saudi, etc. - I find myself with a negative ideology towards dating them.

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I was raised consertatively - consertative dress, don't sleep around, etc., etc. - so it's not like I usually parade around half naked and they're demanding I cover up, I'm usually covered up.

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My family, which has lived in India and Qatar, etc., has some Asiatic habits - e. g. kids looking after parents, etc. - and one of the reasons why I relate so well as friends and colleagues. But dating is more difficult than I thought; I find with some my mind is "can't stand" them.

I have very few friends left but I don't really mind. I think most friends are either temporary or toxic or at least that's my experience with them so far.

I've got some friends left - we mostly chat online, some live abroad and the others are often busy with their own lives...

Thankfully, I have found a guy who seems to enjoy spending time with me. We text each other when we are both at work, after work we go see each other (hand in hand, always), spend time together. We still do not officially live together but I tend to be over at his place more than back home with my family. When he feels like it (and I do as well), he takes me with him everywhere even when going out with his friends even though they're all guys.

Some of my friends (acquaintances more like) say it's wrong to be with each other so often, but if it works for us, is it truly such a bad thing?

I also see and read articles about this "issue" online.

And just to clarify more, I don't have many hobbies except the very basic simple ones (baking, movies, TV Shows, going to the cinema, eating out, car drives... sleeping & cuddling). I just prefer to do the stuff I like to do with my man ♥

Your feelings for said person were present prior to the relationship you are in now (with someone else) and are still present/consistent is that ok/fair to your current partner?

Why do some people enter into relationships while having equal to or stronger feelings for someone else they already have/had in their lives?

29 yr old male here just got into cooking again and I was telling my girlfriend that I got inspired because my good friend of mine (male) taught me to cook. Me and my friend and another homie of ours would make drinks and all kinds of things. I talked about how he’s a smart good guy been my friend for awhile and my girlfriend thought that was weird and gay thoughts?

I'm not fat, I run 5 kms daily. But I am tired of posts on this site about people being "lazy" if they gain weight. There are a lot of reasons why someone can become fat and it has nothing to do with being lazy (people that say laziness are typical nasty, ignorant & uneducated).

KNOWN reasons include:

~ Medication can cause weight gain, in fact it's extremely common for certain medicine
~ Mental health issues - depression, insomnia, etc. can be cause for weight gain
~ Medical issues such as hypothyroidism is very typical in causing weight gain issues
~ Serious injuries that handicap mobility (e. g. broken legs) can cause weight gain
~ Poor diet overly processed but cheaper products can obviously cause weight gain

Plenty of reasons that involve weight gain without being lazy.

When you're in a romantic relationship, are you a nickname person? Like babe, baby, etc. Or do you call each other by your names? If you use nicknames, do you choose them, or do they just happen naturally as the relationship progresses?

I keep hearing these couples come up with the weirdest things and I always wonder how they progressed from something simple to some crazy variation of baby-darling-cuddle-muffin.