Relationships

A Guy’s Perspective of Love and Making it Work

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Love relationships are all about companionship. We’re sociable creatures by nature, gregariously spontaneous in some respect when trying to find that companion. With a heterosexual guy, his ultimate goal is to find that perfect woman companion.  With that in mind, the story of boy meets girl is inevitable in his never-ending journey to find that [...]

The Media: Culprit for Shoving Romantic Expectations into the Realm of Unobtainable?

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Books, movies, the internet and more.  We can’t deny the hype over damn good-looking vamps who’d make decent lovers if they weren’t so determined to bleed us out from our jugular.  Or that Asian drama hunks manage to keep their masculinity intact with some very beautiful crying scenes (in fact, we want them more!).  Those slow-mo, nose-to-nose-but-not-quite-kissing, longing stares, possessive grabs and [...]

Love: A Fight ‘Til the End

I’m pretty sure they’ll last.  In fact, I’m confident.  Not just because I’m in love with the child they’ve created – the most soft-tempered, long-lashed cutie – but because their love is so palpable!  In their words, their actions, even in their silences.  When I say “palpable,” I don’t mean the tips of my ears blush red when [...]

What does being Hmong mean?

What does being Hmong mean? Really, what does it mean? If you ask me, the numerous things on my mind are: 1. Duh! It means that I am Hmong! 2. It means that my family does that tying cotton thread around the wrist ceremony.

Nonsensical Love

To my fans – the one, two, possibly three of you – you may have noticed my long absence from the love blog, if you will.  In my nearly three-month long hiatus, I became witness and participant to a barrage of romantic entanglements.  While I’d like to end the suspense with a heartwarming resolution over [...]

Interracial Dating

Eleven years ago I had the opportunity to write about my experiences in interracial dating and being involved in a interracial relationship. I came upon the article recently and found that much of what I wrote back then is still true today. I was a recent high school graduate when I wrote this and still [...]

A New Year’s Resolution to Love

Oftentimes, you just need to make and commit to the decision that you deserve better. Here’s a letter I wrote, what seems like, a lifetime of New Year’s ago. It tells a story of a boy and a girl – the girl is so head over heels over the boy, whose greatest joy is to [...]

What About Me? Part Deux…

After my later-in-her-20′s girlfriend got her deepest relationship concerns off her chest, my younger sister – 22 years old to be exact – turned to me and inquired nearly the same thing, “What about me?”  Only this time, she added, “I’m not ‘old’ by any standards but nearly everyone my age is ‘complicated,’ happy to [...]

What About Me?

I have a friend.  She’s rolling into the “later half” of her twenties and starting to worry that she won’t find a man to share her life with, to produce button-nose offspring with, to spend chilly evenings with, heck, to make love with! She realizes she might not be cut out for the competition – it’s a dog-eat-dog world.  For [...]

The Speed of Forgiveness

We’ve all been there before: committed some sort of mistake that rendered a romantic relationship for the worse.  Whether it was something as blatant as a full-fledged affair, skeletons revealed or not staunching hurtful accusations, our partners are given a window view to a side of us they have never seen before…and they don’t like it.  The “event” might not end the relationship but it sure [...]

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