Essential Love & Dating Advice (By and For WP Members)

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15 Mar 2015, 7:13 pm

I think like oxygen, food and water love is also the most essential thing for our life. The life without love is not a life worth living. Love either from your family, parents, friends or your spouse it gives you energy and encouragement to live a happy life and try to improve it every day. So love and be loved and stay happy :)



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18 Dec 2015, 4:36 am

In the interests of making this thread used and useful, I'm going to unlock it, and anyone can post a link to a thread or post they feel is useful. Yay democrazy

So post links to threads/posts you've seen in L&D that you feel would be worth preserving for all eternity or something like that.



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24 Dec 2015, 4:06 pm

JBY - just be yourself



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24 Dec 2015, 4:18 pm

Melo11 wrote:
JBY - just be yourself


What do you think I've done for the last nineteen years?! Number of dates: zero.



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01 Jan 2016, 4:46 pm

Grammar Geek wrote:
Melo11 wrote:
JBY - just be yourself


What do you think I've done for the last nineteen years?! Number of dates: zero.


Agree. We are ourselves for all our life, and yet dates are too rare, sometimes there are no one in several years.



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11 Jan 2016, 9:20 am

When it comes to coupling up of whatever variety, be it jumping bones or til we're dust and bones, everyone is in the same boat. We want

1. Someone to who we are, in as broad or narrow a sense as you care for, attracted; and who is

2. attracted (again, broad or narrow) to us.

It's the details of these that matter, that inform the venn overlap. Reflect on what it is you want, and why, and on the kind of person who would be attracted to you. You may find change in these matters, large or small, is necessary and doable. Do not feel beholden to others' idea of who you are, nor indeed your own.

Some people struggle to find someone, and they're miserable. Others find it too easy, and fall into repeating dysfunctional patterns of behaviour, and are miserable. Be as content and comfortable in your own skin as you can be.

If you look out of desperation and someone turns up, the other person may sense that. It need not be the unseemliness of desperation in itself that pushes them away, but a concern that you're only interested in them because you're desperate, and they may feel that more is expected of them than they can be. Desperation will also keep you in a bad situation where otherwise you might walk away.

There was a daft comment about pedestals in a thread a few days back. But there is a serious point to make: do not put people on pedestals. It's not nice. Cherish them, care for them - of course. But find them faultless? No-one is faultless. Allow people to be human, to screw up. And keep away from those who want to be treated as faultless.

Read. If you want to know the psychological workings of the other gender, read what they write, and widely. It is a way into the workings of a mind like no other, and should help to dispel any idea of a hivemind, and remind you to consider the nuances of individuals. Short stories and poems may be easier to get through than novels, where your interest isn't held so well.


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19 Jan 2016, 10:25 am

DavidTaylor wrote:
I think like oxygen, food and water love is also the most essential thing for our life. The life without love is not a life worth living. Love either from your family, parents, friends or your spouse it gives you energy and encouragement to live a happy life and try to improve it every day. So love and be loved and stay happy :)


It's comments like this that make lonely people feel even worse. You're supposed to say that love is overrated and meaningless.



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19 Jan 2016, 10:30 am

... You're supposed to say that love is overrated and meaningless.[/quote]Says who?

If you believe that love is overrated and meaningless, then it will show in your attitude and behavior toward others. If you think that you'll lose, then you've already lost.


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08 Feb 2016, 9:58 pm

Fnord wrote:
... You're supposed to say that love is overrated and meaningless.
Says who?

If you believe that love is overrated and meaningless, then it will show in your attitude and behavior toward others. If you think that you'll lose, then you've already lost.[/quote]

This was intended to be a joke. I know this is an Aspie forum and jokes often fly way over peoples' heads, but you're quite a wise person and it seems like you're baiting for an argument. Moving on to advice...

Dating and dating sites can be quite an enigma and to some, even a chore. If you struggle with dating then why not consider getting to know someone first through interest groups, or your work, and then it takes away the whole "interview" side of the thing. You'll be able to agree to places you know you'll both like, talk about things you know won't push the wrong buttons.. so maybe not rush to date someone, and don't rely on dating sites to make that connection. Go through other channels if its possible to you.


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01 Apr 2016, 6:57 am

Melo11 wrote:
JBY - just be yourself


I thought I was being Louis XIV of France - thank you for waking me up.



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16 Apr 2016, 6:26 pm

I have been single for a long time. I sometime have trouble understanding what women what. I also live in a small town.



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03 May 2016, 3:40 pm

I keep playing relationship "yo-yo" with my ex/perhaps soon-to-be partner again. I became incredibly jealous when I discovered she had developed feelings for someone else, yet I felt bad for her that she had been rejected by him.

Although she's said that she never wants to be in a relationship with me again, I don't understand why she is always flirting with me.

Maybe I just wasn't programmed to have relationships. They are too confusing for my simple mind to comprehend.


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16 Sep 2016, 3:44 pm

The most valuable love and dating advice I could probably give is don't pay any attention to love and dating advice.



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21 Sep 2016, 3:30 pm

Don't play lonely hearts with playboy bachelor men. When a man's fidelity is shot down, one more female dodges the bullet.

Also: If you can't steal the right girl or boy of your dreams when you had the chance, it's highly unlikely that you ever will.


Sometimes, a relationship which lacks any meaning ends in disaster, so sometimes you talk yourself into being used, until someone yanks on the handbrake, and turns around to see which way the story unfolds.

Usually, the best advice you can give yourself, belies a real sense of trust and feeling in a spouse who will be there for you, no matter what.. and not when their pleasure has turned sour..and realises that your the one that they want.

If you're looking for genuine advice, then your not going to seek it here.



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24 Dec 2016, 12:38 pm

Thank you for the information. I have made many large strides forward in my life in just the past two years, but one big hurdle remaining is how to know if a man is interested in dating me and wondering if I will have someone to spend my later years with. I don't know if anyone is really interested in me. I'm 52 and never married and never really dated during my life. I would really like that to be a part of my new and growing life, but sometimes I think I'm too dumb to read the social cues others give me, although I'm hardly dumb in other ways.



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07 Jan 2017, 10:51 am

TomS wrote:
The most valuable love and dating advice I could probably give is don't pay any attention to love and dating advice.

:ninja: I think many have taken this advice.


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