My mom is awesome. She had it rough growing up: losing her parents at 13 and raised by her sister; on her own since 18; putting herself through nursing school. Hell, I didn't even know that we were on food stamps when I was a child until I was an adult because she didn't want her kids to bear that burden. So, she…

Crying at work sucks a whole lot. Sympathy hugs all around.

Never could, so kudos on making it to 34.

I have no problem with someone stating it during a date. I would personally rather know up front than have them tell me later. And I do find it interesting why people don't want to have children and really don't hold it against anybody for making that choice.

More than likely

I'm socially awkward and very anxious most of the time, so I have a hard time picking up and interpreting signals. Needless to say, I don't hook up much. The few times it has happened the woman are more dominant and aggressive in their pusuit.

Me too. I didn't have too much of a problem with her playing Pokemon Go and losing track of time (although in hindsight she had to have seen my texts and willfully ignored them), but her outright saying she didn't feel like coming when she agreed, and not even telling me until the next day, really did it for me.

Definitely. I've had a few relationships where it was revealed later on and it became an issue. A few years ago I worked with a woman and we started hanging out together. She mentioned in a very early conversation that she never wanted kids or marriage. Later on we started developing feelings for each other, and when…

I think its more of the second reason, which is why I'm not too upset about not seeing her again. The date ended on a good note, and we both said we had fun, but I could tell she wasn't interested and she never responded to my text the next day. I'm not going to pursue it any further because I know that even if it…

Flakiness is a pet peeve of mine. I think it has to do more with my anxiety issues and less to do with it being rude, although it is also that.

Oh yea, I forgot to mention something. So, we were the local opening act for a tour at our Thursday show. The headliner was a band from Italy that, somehow, had booked a show in rural West Virginia. Unfortunately, we played to a total of 4 people, one of whom was the female singer from the Italian band. At the end of…

Definitely. I was kind of hesitant about going out with her anyway because we went out last year and it didn't work out. Oddly, she either doesn't remember this or she is simply not bringing it up, which is what I am doing.

Good. I'm really happy to hear this. You're right though, someone is going to love you for everything you have to offer, including your flaws and graces. And seriously, if physics teacher doesn't want any of that, then he can fuck right off.

That's all true and you're right. I probably should not have used "asshole" there as that is divisive and reinforces things rather then helps. Thanks for setting me straight on that.

Well, in the past week I hung out with two different women, and, well, the results were kind of…meh. The first woman I met for drinks seemed kind of cool. We liked some of the same bands, movies, and talked a lot about Mr. Robot. But then she brought up that she never wants to have kids. Like, ever. Like, she already…

I've been having the same problems with online dating recently. I'm also in a smallish area and the amount of people on any given dating site is pretty slim. Add into that the fact that most of the women on there that I am interested in I went out with last summer. So, I'm thinking of just cooling it with any…

Yea, I didn't understand why he didn't try to have sex after the dinner/dinner party. Like, that just makes more sense to me.

I came close to this also after a few really bad relationships in my twenties. I'm lucky that I have a mom who will not take any shit from me on this front and continuely put me in my place. I guess when you helped your older sister and your daughter escape extremely abusive relationships with men, you're not going to…

I've had this happen and to me and it I am no longer friends with that person. Really the best thing to do is call that person out when he acts this way and explain why what he is doing makes him an asshole. Worst case scenario, that person is no longer in your life.

I would hesitate to say plagerize too, but I think it comes pretty damn close when Suicide Squad used "Sprit in the Sky" which was also used in GOTG.