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 [...]

Black Girl Lost: The Fallacy That Unmarried Women Over 30 Are Losing

You Just Lost One...

I swear I wasn’t looking for trouble… It was Sunday, and I was recovering from the community service I performed from the prior evening, helping young women mitigate the cost of heir higher education. I checked on Twitter to see what the morning conversation was about. I saw a young lady’s tweet appear across my timeline [...]

She’s Out Of My League

Not every post pic has to feature black people!

  I recently watched the movie, She’s Out of My League. It’s actually pretty good. I will qualify that compliment with the fact that I began watching it with the lowest of expectations, so you may want to keep that in mind. At one point in the movie, the characters break down the spread one [...]

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 [...]

The Five Relationships You Have Before You Find the One

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Behind every married man or woman there usually can be found a number of men and women who, at some point, thought they might be the one but were lost along the way. We rarely talk about these relationships, these stepping stones to the altar because ultimately, marriage is the holy grail of relationships; once [...]

5 Lessons Learned From Dating

Dating ain't teach me how to dance doe.

**Was digging around on my old site and found this one. Enjoy.** The other night I was getting my dose of Twitternet and noticed that #collegetaughtme was the hot new trending topic. Everybody was following the hashtag with things they learned from college ranging from promissory notes to trains…and I don’t mean a mode of transportation unless the [...]

How do you know it’s Love?

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There are several questions that make life for men difficult.  A few questions that never have a good answer, yet can never be left unanswered.  They put us on the spot, make us sweat, and may cause stomach pains. – Where is this relationship going? – Did you sleep with her? – Do you love [...]

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 Hyphen Issue – Should She Change Her Last Name?

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Recently, I was perusing Twitter, and the usual antics were on display. My timeline is pretty diverse, so different conversations will occur and I will be entertained and intellectually stimulated. One conversation that I saw was posted by the homie @itsMarisaRoss. She posed the following question: Fellas, if you get married, and your wife doesn’t want [...]

The Derek Jeter relationship model: Lessons that we can learn from Mr 3000

Every time he bags a modellin chick, he does this!

    He’s the Captain. he’s the model for which every baseball player strives to achieve. He dates the baddest women, and he is the newest member of the 3000 hits club. This is the man who put NYC on his back daily, and reps a city, a sport, and a culture like no other. [...]