So basically, women have more realistic expectations, thus their expectations are more frequently realized.

Maybe some people "date down" because they didn't realize they were dating down until they were neck deep in the relationship.

I really hate the notion of dating 'up' or 'down'. It bothered me — and still bothers me — when my mom says it about my now-ex; yes, we weren't made for each other — I'm far too ambitious compared to him, and we wouldn't have been happy in the long run — but we loved each other a lot, and the relationship worked for…

Has anyone ever had a crush just spontaneously end? There's a guy I had a crush on at work and one day I just walked in and didn't anymore. The think is there wasn't a fight, he didn't do or say anything offensive, I just liked him one day and didn't the next. Weird, right?

I'm so sorry that you went through this, too :(. I have deleted him from social media (actually the first thing I did after finding out about the other women). He never asked me why, and never responded to a text telling him when he could pick up the shit he left at my place (which I'd nicely thrown in a box and left…

Writing his name on a piece of paper and then ceremonially burning it helps for quite some folks. Might be worth a try.

Hmmmmm...I am an older type chickie, and in my experience, when a guy says "I don't want to break your heart," what he means is, "I would like to be held responsible for breaking your heart, so can we please have sex but not a serious relationship?" :/

Sometimes I wonder if I am perceived as doing this when my intention is only to find common ground with people and relate. *shrugs* I try to be aware and sometimes I don't do it because the voice in my head tells me the person will think I'm trying to take their spotlight or something.

Oh Smithy, you alien-faced babe.

at first i thought matt wasn't cute, and then i saw him in motion as 11 instead f in a still image, and i thought i was wrong, he's really cute.

His name isn't 'Doctor Who', it's The Doctor.

"he was the cutest baby on the floor."

"The guy from Seinfeld? The main guy?" I love you, Ilana. Be mine.

TRUTH. Beware a man with a lip ring and super-beware a man with more than one. I was briefly involved with a guy who had three. He was the douchiest dicksneeze who ever lived.

Hearing girls say "he had sex with me, he must kind of like me" is sort of heartbreaking. No, he doesn't. He doesn't want to be your friend and he doesn't want to date you. He might want to have sex with you again when he's drunk. I realize this is cynical but like you I wish I had figured it out sooner.

Um, yeah, duh? Don't take a line out a context. My post was about people's attitudes. How one has to "qualify" to be a victim.

What do you do when the person that you're trying to get over is well-known or even famous? How do you create distance when the television at any moment can surprise you with their face, or the radio is suddenly airing an interview?

Mallory Ortberg's response to the father of girls article on The Toast is amazing.

I'm pretty sure Sarah Palin is neither 24 years old nor from China.