You seemed to have missed the point of Dan’s advice, which is that couples should share their interests with each other. A partner who refuses to engage with your interests indicates a lack of respect for you, which is certainly a serious issue. A partner who behaves arrogantly and condescendingly toward you because…

Another good dog!

So much this! My wife and I adopted a pit bull from a rescue that fostered him a year ago and he’s the friendliest dog and leaves our cat alone (we told the rescue that we needed a dog that was fostered with cats).

I had a border collie whose preferred day was to sleep on the back of the couch, with his chin resting on the windowsill, sleepily watching the rabbits and birds outside. Couch potato in dog form. I miss that nerd so much.

She’s a good dog!

I can’t stress enough the importance that every dog is individual and their personalities will vary. For example, I adopted a fully grown blue heeler and Australian shepherd mix with the expectation of her being a high energy dog. Wow was I wrong.

This won’t work for every scenario, but if you’ve been gifted a stainless steel taco holder, they work well for batch searing. Place it on a baking sheet and get it screaming hot in the oven. Say, a cold oven at 500 and let it preheat. When you’re ready, a quick blast of cooking spray, place your thighs (or other…

This is what I meant! But I am also queer, and a lot of apps that aren’t explicitly for LGBTQ people are aggressively heterosexual and I am shown straight women ALL THE TIME on Tinder and Bumble. So I think if you’re a man looking for women who switches briefly to searching for men on one of those, you will see a lot…

I’m assuming everyone needs help. You all need help.

This makes you seem sweet and relaxed, but a lot of your descriptives are generic. Share a short story about a road trip, or be more specific about your fav restaurant. You seem nice! Give people more to remember about you.

I have two additional suggestions for what to leave out of your profile.

I think she meant that if you’re a heterosexual male, you switch your settings so you appear to be a hetero female and look at the other hetero male offerings out there - not switch your setting to bisexual or gay man and see what those courting their own gender are doing. As you note, switching your settings to look…

Two people can't handle all that much more than a 35-ft boat properly, I think. 45? In a storm? Fuuuck. When my grandad used to sail us around on the east coast, like down from Maine to Long Island, two adults and two kids were fine, but to race from Block Island to Bermuda he had a crew of 7 in that tiny thing. I say…

My thoughts exactly. Tell me more about this sailboat. Where are we going? How big is the boat? What are the kitchen and bath facilities like? Most importantly, who gets to navigate?

I think the best relationship I ever got was from someone who explained the difference between love and like. She said, I always love my husband, but sometimes I wake up and look at him and I really don't like him. This has helped me get over the fairy tale myth our society tell us in which you are only successful in…

Here's the thing, though... all that guy did was increase the number of times he went out on a date. The fact that it took him the better part of 100 "first dates" is indicative of how little what he did actually refined the process.

Indeed! I don't think my hubby and I would answer those questions the same way either... and we've been together for almost 20 years.

I'm far too nuanced a person to give a simple yes or no to at least two of these questions!

Why horror movies and not another genre? Dracula (1931) and Halloween are horror movies but very different. I like suspense but not gore.

On one level, this seems really weird and not indicative of anything. But on the other hand, I highly recommend reading this Wired story about how a math genius hacked OKCupid to find love—it's amazing what you can glean with people's answers to OKCupid's questions.