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I don’ think I was ever a fan of Alanis Morissette. Sure I listened to Hands Over Feet and Ironic and Hand In My Pocket growing up just like everyone else, but I always felt her music was a little angsty and not for me.
Fast forward to early this year when Chloe and I were [...]

The way I was brought up, my mom always impressed upon me the importance of not going to bed angry with your partner, partially because it’s not good for the relationship, partially because you never know what’ll happen tomorrow. I guess that’s why this song really leaps out at me.
Mad. – NeYo
I know sometimes it’s [...]

I am literally discovering new things about being in a relationship every day.
It’s wonderful.

A trend that I’ve noticed (and as someone has said to be the “annoying question”) is how girls like to ask “So why do you like me?” when they find out that you do. Guys, on the other hand, kinda just nod, accept it and that’s it.
I usually don’t know how to deal with the [...]

While on that amazing 14hr train journey on Friday, I was watching endless episodes of How I Met Your Mother:
Barney: The more you learn about a person, the better chance you have of hitting the fatal “oh” moment.
Marshall: The “oh” moment?
Barney: “Yeah. The moment you find out that one detail about the person that’s gonna [...]

I was out with Le Raine yesterday and she mentioned that the smart girls go out with the older guys, say 26 and up.
So I looked at her and said “That’s very disturbing for a guy turning 24.”
I see it not empirically, but anecdotally at least with my friends, dating guys many years older than [...]