One of the issues I've wanted to bring up for a while, but never seemed to get around to, is that of age and how it affects relationships. Recently, I've been hearing from some people that the games I'm seeing women play decrease with age. For example, Kate never mentions that men treat her poorly on her blog, and she's several years older than I. Sure, she complains about some of the guys who move too fast, but they don't do things like not show up or play "hard to get." I wouldn't call moving too fast a game, but a mistake.
Most of the people with whom I get along really well are several years older. Of course, I have some friends who are the same age, but after a while they always tend to drift away. I started paying attention to whom they drifted, and generally they were younger. Or, perhaps, the difference has to do with whether or not one attends college. Again, I get along better with those who are out of college or in graduate school as opposed to those still in undergraduate studies.
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A friend, who had read the article I posted earlier on this blog entitled 
I'm going to be the devil's advocate here and argue that unlike what Steve stated earlier, the idea of 
When I returned to Philly recently on a week-long trip, I remember again listening to a radio station to which I had listened frequently before I moved away. The station is one of the standard contemporary top 100 stations. In the mornings, like most radio stations, they put on a talk show. This particular station's morning show frequently discussed aspects of dating and relationships, as their prime audience was probably the 18-35 age group advertisers love.
Two people sent me E-Mails or left comments on other blogs suggesting that I was being too liberal when I state that I am constantly rejected. In other words, they didn't feel as if I had gone far enough to classify the women's responses as rejections. While I agree that I didn't directly ask someone out in the traditional sense in all of these cases, what occurred was a rejection all the same, and in most cases was worse than if I had asked someone out and she had said no.
Recently, I was talking with someone about this site. He asked about the eleven rejections and I briefly described some of the details. He suggested that I was doing something wrong, which I obviously am. But then he suggested that perhaps my lack of skill in the "game" is what was causing all this rude treatment.
I posted on the 
I've been saying for the past few weeks that I would finally get around to elaborating on one of the particularly distressing experiences I had in 2003 that contributed to my decision to write this blog.
I had been planning to make a post on this subject for at least a week, but other things kept getting in the way, and LD actually beat me to it with a comment about Brian's post yesterday. Apparently, it's not only me that gets the impression that a lot of women aren't interested in dating.
While I usually take Sundays off, Ld posted an interesting comment a few days ago that brought up an issue that I had been wanting to mention, namely the difference between dating "for fun" and dating "for a relationship."
For some reason today, I remembered a hilarious experience I had in the middle of November last semester. I was eating dinner at the Mio Zio on College Avenue. I believe it was a Monday, and I was headed to an extracirricular activity after I finished eating. I ordered my usual, spaghetti with meat sauce, grabbed my salad, and had a seat.
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