I was up the other night until ungodly hours of the morning obsessively binging on a Netflix series called "Dirty John". I haven't been hooked on a show since Game of Thrones but it was honestly so gripping! Based on a true crime story, it's about a manipulative, sociopathic con man who uses dating sites [...]
Tag: dating stories
Intuition or paranoia?
How do you tell the difference between intuition and paranoia? I have wondered this so much myself and I like to think I have an answer. Before I throw my thoughts out there, let me provide the definitions as they are remotely not the same thing… yet somehow many people manage to confuse the two. [...]
A story of conflict: Growing up with strict Asian parents and having an interracial relationship.
This is by far one of the most difficult posts I've ever had to write... it's a sensitive subject, an extremely personal account and still to this day evokes so many negative emotions as I type. I can literally feel my heart tightening along with a slight rise in my blood pressure when I cast [...]
The eX-Files: Keeping memorabilia from past relationships.
Today I’m wondering… “Do you keep memorabilia from past relationships?” I think it’s a good question and I’m sure the answer varies from person to person. I honestly don’t. At least not on purpose. After a failed relationship, I purge anything and everything attached to an ex — especially if it was a bad relationship. [...]
“It’s nothing personal.”
Maybe it was a first date and they never followed up, maybe you've been seeing each other for a few months and they decided it's not going to work, maybe you finally plucked up the courage to ask them out and they weren't interested... While rejection is pretty much inevitable in some capacity, it still [...]
Does size really matter? Time to break it down…
I know, I know. It's an old, classic question but it doesn't make it any less relevant right? So let's start with a bit of context... Why does our culture make such a big deal about the size? For years we've place so many unrealistic body standards on both men and women. Where size is [...]
When the past becomes our present.
Old emotional wounds have many ways of inserting themselves into existing and new relationships. When this occurs, they can prevent a connection from blossoming or slowly pull at a relationship until one or both parties suffocate. Some of our deepest wounds often come from childhood, and others will make an appearance at a later point in [...]
“I had a great time, when can I see you again?”
These days you'll need to come armed with garlic, a crucifix and a dictionary if you’ve got any chance of survival in the modern dating world. Learning the millennial language of "love" can be pretty helpful to if you want to figure out what kind relationship you’re getting yourself into — or whether it’s even one [...]
COVIDiares: From quranteasing to pandemic pleasing
If you’re an avid reader of my blog then you’ll know that I started COVID-eo dating a guy that I met on Hinge back around mid-March (here is the post for reference.) Nine weeks in I wrote another piece giving a quick update on how things were going and bringing to light some of my [...]
Still waiting to be “swiped” off my feet…
In 2012 Tinder ushered in a new era in the history of romance and revolutionised the dating game. The introduction of the swipe left for a no and swipe right for a yes formula was quickly adopted by many other dating apps. With a mobile-first generation; the carefully put together profiles quickly lost out to [...]
