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The Ten Things Women Do That Drive Men Away
Adrienne, Mixologist| October 21, 2010 2:45 pm
Some women, without even knowing it, are driving the men who love them right out of their lives. For the most part, women aren’t getting information about men straight from the source. They’re asking other women, listening to so-called relationship experts, and believing statistics. While those sources may be helpful and provide some information, nothing is as accurate as asking men what they think and feel. This list of ten things women do that drive men away was compiled from informal interviews with real everyday men. None of these men are “experts” from academia. None of them are sociologists, psychologists, or relationship experts. They’re just regular guys: a computer technician, a personal fitness trainer, a mail courier, a college student, an entrepreneur, a corporate executive, a sanitation worker, a police officer, a mechanic, and an attorney.
When I got the guys together, the first question I asked was
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Meeting your Fruit
Adrienne, Mixologist| September 16, 2010 7:27 am
I’ve been noticing my friends pairing off…. and it’s causing me to feel alone and quite negative about finding my compatible match. I have even been telling myself some of them are choosing incompatible people because they are desperate – but it’s not true. Just because I’m not also deep in a new relationship, doesn’t mean I can’t feel supportive elation rather than insane jealousy.
It is easy it is to get stalled in the pit of a place you don’t want to be. When you’re single, you know that pit, right? Feeling like there’s no hope for a future relationship. Fearing you’ll never meet anyone? That nothing will ever change? That you’ll have to watch each one of your friends partner up while you end up alone?
Whilst surfing Amazon I came across this intriguing book -
Meeting Your Half-Orange: An Utterly Upbeat Guide to Using Dating Optimism to Find Your Perfect Match
How would you like to have a wonderfully well-suited, kind, adoring half-orange who feels like a teammate, a partner in crime, a true other half? “Half-Orange” refers to the Spanish term mi media naranja, which describes one’s sweetheart, that perfect other half. What if you heard he or she would be coming along soon? Would you be relieved? Excited? Happy? Well those are the feelings that dating optimism can give you.
The book seems to tell us to be more optimistic about meeting other singles – and in fact, be more optimistic about life in general as a single! I wonder how you’ve been feeling about coming along to Duck Soup recently? If you’ve been less than optimistic and a little run-down by the whole singles scene, it will come across in your language and attitude. However, if we want our dream relationship, we should do as Emerson said: Go confidently in that direction and live—really live—the life you have imagined. Bring an injection of optimism & fun to Duck Soup next month and watch the difference in your attitude and the response of others.
Raw Emotion
Adrienne, Mixologist| August 20, 2010 5:36 am
I received a call from an out-of-town friend of my parents looking for their number. I quickly learned that her situation had drastically changed after I asked about her partner. She was literally devastated by the betrayal and abandonment of her husband of 18 years and found it really difficult to be positive at all. However, because she is very intelligent and driven, she knows she needs to get back out there into the world and start to network with others and make new friends – if only to find a job at 50+ years old! She was really interested in the Duck Soup concept and was determined to discover if there is something similar in her city.
However, it struck me that this woman was still incredibly
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