Dear Captain Awkward: About ten months ago, I started a relationship (a really-long-distance relationship with someone I met on a website). At first, and I have to be honest here, I was just fooling around, I couldn’t believe that you…
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Lindy West reacts to a new book by the authors of The Rules with the correct amount of “What the everloving fuck?” (h/t Bitches Gotta Eat) “So, essentially (according to these jokers), online dating is a forum where you put…
Tagged with: Dating, don't call us crazy, feminism, graduation, links, mentors, Work
Posted in bad internet dating, Culture, Feminism, Inspiring, Quotes, Rants
Posted in bad internet dating, Culture, Feminism, Inspiring, Quotes, Rants
#229: You must chill (online dating edition).
Dear Captain Awkward, I’m a serially-single female in my mid-20s who has only been in two relationships. The first was when I was 20 and lasted seven months and the other was a on-and-off disaster that ended a few months…
Tagged with: boombox, Dating, golden retriever of love, online dating, Relationships
Posted in bad internet dating, Captain Awkward's Dating Guide for Geeks, Dating, Overthinking It, Reader Questions
Posted in bad internet dating, Captain Awkward's Dating Guide for Geeks, Dating, Overthinking It, Reader Questions
Reader question #61: My long distance girlfriend avoids me whenever I make it to town for a visit. Should I take this personally?
Dear Captain Awkward, I started dating a woman late last year, but shortly afterward economic circumstances forced me to move to a town a couple hours away. We’ve been doing the long distance thing ever since, and it’s been going…
Tagged with: long-distance relationships, penpals, sempahore
Posted in bad internet dating, Captain Awkward's Dating Guide for Geeks, Dating, Reader Questions, rejection, Relationships
Posted in bad internet dating, Captain Awkward's Dating Guide for Geeks, Dating, Reader Questions, rejection, Relationships
The art of “no,” continued: Saying no when you’ve already said yes.
A reader responded to yesterday’s post with this story: …I was sitting around at 3am reading blogs when some guy knocked on my window, since mine was the only light on in the street–he’d locked his keys in his car,…
Tagged with: bad internet dating, forced teaming, gavin de becker, manipulation, personal safety, silence of the lambs, sketchy people, the gift of fear, violence
Posted in bad internet dating, Personal Safety
Posted in bad internet dating, Personal Safety
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