Why Sometimes Perfection Fails

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If you’re a man like me, you’ve known this woman.  You’ve bought her drinks at the bar, she’s sat across the table from you on dates, and she’s laid next to you in bed. She’s been a lover, a significant other, a friend with benefits.  She’s perfect, possessed with everything you might ever desire in [...]

Cuffing Season: from Marvin’s Room to Honeymoon in 7 easy steps!

Tis the season!

The pages on the calendar have turned once again to reveal the month of September. Summer is winding down, school is starting again, and vacations are ending. Days are shorter, nights are colder. Soon you will feel a primal urge for companionship engulf your natural senses. You will feel compelled to seek out new yams, [...]

So Don’t You Fall In Love: A Thesis for Emotionally Unavailable Men

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  Loved by a woman you have but moderate feelings for is one of the more frustratingly difficult places a man can find himself. It is even more frustrating when you’ve specifically told this person not to fall and when you’ve given them ample opportunity to avoid falling. I was reminded of what it feels [...]

How Do You Love?

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  When looking across the entire spectrum of human emotion, the feeling I’ve had the most difficult time trying to encapsulate and internalize is without a doubt, love. Love for me has always been a bit of an enigma. I can perceive it in others and I can conceptualize it, but I’ve always had this [...]

5 words or phrases that if women say, #reallymeans you’re in trouble

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Fellas, today I come bearing gifts of knowledge and advice. My favorite motto remains “The one thing I truly understand about women is that I will NEVER understand women 100%”. I don’t think the good Lord meant for us to be able to decipher women so easily. Male-Female interaction is a challenge and one of [...]

The Not So Tall Man’s Guide to Gaining Friends, Influencing People and … Winning

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Sometime around 11th or 12th grade, as all of my male classmate’s growth began spurting and they became taller than our female compatriots, I came to one of my life’s more important realizations: Height Matters. I’d always known that height mattered if you wanted to be a professional basketball player or a model or something [...]

The Break Up: How Projecting Ruined a Relationship

What Could Go Wrong?

  Looking back on it, she was a great person. She was attractive, funny, smart, and she treated me as well as any woman has every treated me. All of this makes it really difficult to understand why I felt the need to break up with her after only 4 months of dating. But that’s [...]

The Cost Benefit Analysis – How to properly rate the physical attractiveness of women

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So if you were black watching tv last night, you were most likely tuned into the BET awards. This award show is the most polarizing awards show ever. People continuously complain about he quality of BETs programming and how they abhor it, yet will turn in to watch faithfully. The best part about that awards [...]

6 Questions To Ask on a First Date

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Knowing how to go on an effective date is a bit of an art form. The first thing you have to understand when going on a date is that the whole point is for the two of you to get to know each other while having fun. Many folks have no idea how to extract [...]

For Those Who Think Young [Guest Post by @8plus9]

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My boy hit me up last week, excited that he spent the day chilling with two 20 year old girls who blew his mind. “Yo, they were mad fun, and it was just so easy to talk to them, they weren’t on some fake LA ish”. I asked if he got her number, he replied, [...]