That too.

I think the guy interviewed here hits several bullseyes.

Get on with the tele-commuting thing it promised us 20 years ago. That would take the pressure off the SV housing market and boost local economies elsewhere.

This. Many Baby Boomers grew up with increasing prosperity, high wages, job security, strong unions, affordable housing, etc and just assumed that was the natural order of things, not something that was fought for and needed protection. So they didn’t protect it, and for the most part haven’t felt the repercussions,…

Got a link to the exercises?

You were agreeing with orginal poster who said “Everyone! Lemme tell you how to go about your life!” even though literally no one asked. That right there indicates an assumption that single people don’t already know the big advice bombshell that’s coming. Generally one doesn’t spend several paragraphs spelling out…

Then why did you post about it in a discussion about “how singles should find love”? You opened with this, ffs:

I love this reminder that the Jolie-Pitt marriage fell apart after all the comments like “When I finally learned to love myself that’s when I met my husband. The End.” on the post about being alone.

Please don’t.

I thought she would pull through :(

Isn’t he dating Louise Linton too?

Actually, I came across an article on this! Maybe it was on nymag.com

I just had another skim of the comments and I notice the only people saying “you can be just as happy and fulfilled single as you can being in a couple” are people in couples.

LOL, have you met any married people? Plenty of them are gross, unattractive, emotional and financial trainwrecks, complete dead weight. Half of them will find themselves single again at some point, so what is your point?

Holy fuck, I just caught this:

I can guarantee you that most people who find love didn’t go through some long journey of self discovery, self-improvement, “learning to love” oneself, taking up new hobbies, doing charity work, etc. in order to earn the relationship they’re in.

Why do you assume that single people haven’t already made that shift, or never needed to make it in the first place because they were already there? Maybe YOU were sitting around waiting for a partner to show up and give you a life, but that doesn’t mean everyone else does.

Or you can do all this stuff because you want to and still have the goal of meeting someone.

Unless he decided not to take that course at that time. Or was not interested in dating at that time, or not interested in dating you. Any number of things could have gone any number of ways that resulted in you not meeting him. You could have shifted yourself to kingdom come and still not met anybody.

if you spend more time working on yourself and doing things, you accomplish the twin goals of 1) doing things that can concretely improve your emotional situation, and 2) you’re out doing stuff where your chances are higher of meeting people (which is cool if you’d like that, but also fine if you don’t, because…