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I made it through one and a half years, and the environment had changed very drastically during that time. It seemed the company was expanding in a direction where I was no longer needed. By the end my job had become irrelevant, and I pretty much lost all motivation and stopped coming in on...

http://money.cnn.com/2015/09/07/news/economy/who-pays-for-first-date I guess some things never change...

Yes this is an online dating thread. You have been warned. So I made a profile on OKCupid a while ago just to try it out. I'd sent out a bunch of greetings and until yesterday had nothing to show for it (curse you, male/female ratio!). Then last night out of the blue, someone actually...

My friend has been dating this guy for the past two years, and she is completely miserable with him. Their personalities are mostly incompatible and they fight over trivial things almost every single day. However they've stuck with each other out of habit and don't seem to be making significant...

Thanks to Facebook I found out that this girl I sort of dated years ago recently got engaged to her boyfriend. At Disneyworld, no less. You can't really top that. I'm not delusional, but there was always a part of me that really missed her company and all the time that we used to spend...

As someone who's recently turned 25 (a.k.a. the magic threshold for "real" adulthood) this is a question that I've been thinking about lately. Do you get more freedom when you get older, or does it gradually get taken away? I think that both can be true depending on how you define the concept of...

This seems to be a term that gets thrown around a lot but never gets defined. "Oh he's nice, but he's not boyfriend material." I realize everyone is attracted to different things but I wonder what common things guys exhibit that are turn-offs. It would be helpful to recognize these traits in...

I'm guessing a lot of people have trouble with this... perhaps the way their parents treated them made them bitter towards them in some way, and as a result they never considered themselves as truly "loving" their parents. I was like that for a while but I've somewhat moved on from that. I...

To be in a good relationship with someone you should be close friends with that person first. I'm sure we can all agree on that. However, being close friends with someone makes it less likely that they'll want to be in a relationship with you. It makes things "complicated" so a lot of people...

Fairness and honesty are great in theory, but the trouble is that practically nothing about the world is fair. People are dishonest and they get rewarded for it more often than not. I see it at my university all the time... many students are not afraid to do anything it takes to get ahead...

Mine would be: not everything in the world has to be a competition.

Good or bad idea?

Underpopulation would be a major problem in practically every society. In order to ensure the future of humanity and maintain functioning economies, the governments of the world would be forced to establish yearly quotas for births. Since very few volunteers are willing to do the deed on their...

Assuming it is possible, of course. How would we know if we've achieved it, or at least close to achieving it? My idea of world peace is that there no longer exists large groups of people who desire to bring harm to or forcibly take things from others. Where our collective energies are focused...

When most people experience their first relationship, they typically don't last very long. It's assumed that the main reason that these relationships fail is due to inexperience and immaturity. It's said that without these failed relationships, it's hard to get a good idea of the sort of person...

This happened to me yesterday. For some reason I thought it was Thursday when it was actually Friday, and I woke up this morning ready to go to a class and realized my entire family was at home... that's when I checked and realized it was the weekend. It's kind of surreal. Almost like time...

So there's this female friend of mine. (LONG STORY ALERT!) We go way back... before we were in high school, but we didn't become close until we were both in college. She's pretty much the only person from my high school that I still see on a regular basis. We try to meet up whenever I'm on...

I had been looking forward to having lunch with an old college friend this weekend. She's moved to the other side of the country and I haven't seen her in years. It was kind of something I was looking forward to the entire week. Well, she just canceled on me. For a good reason - she had a...

What are some things you've learned from your past relationship experiences? About yourself, about other people, about relationships in general?

I once had a teacher in high school who could draw giant circles perfectly on a chalkboard, with a single stroke. Our class was pretty sure he was God's cousin.