Another Friday and hopefully all you singles have big plans for the weekend. It’s autumn, and I always feel that there’s a sense of possibility in the air at this time of year. It’s the season for getting cozy, so how about meeting someone new? At the blog Life After College, guest blogger Ryan Stephens [...]
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Narcissus in Greek mythology is a hero, renowned for his beauty. He is exceptionally cruel, in that he disdains those who love him. As divine punishment he falls in love with a reflection in a pool, not realizing it is his own, and perishes there, not being able to leave the beauty of his own [...]
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Posted by Susan Walsh on Jun 9, 2009 in
Relationship Strategies Jane Austen understood everything about the human heart. That’s an astonishing accomplishment for a woman who died a virgin at 41. Lauren Henderson, a novelist who attended Cambridge University in England and wrote her dissertation on the courtship rituals in Jane Austen, has gathered JA’s wisdom, and added some of her own, into Jane Austen’s [...]
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Posted by Susan Walsh on May 11, 2009 in
Personal Development,
Relationship Strategies I feel compelled to write today in appreciation of a regular reader of Hooking Up Smart. She calls herself The Singlutionary. She comments regularly, and she has her own blog, which you may have checked out. I love it. I love her. She is a woman who is not in a relationship, and she has [...]
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Posted by Susan Walsh on Apr 13, 2009 in
Ask Susan,
Relationship Strategies Dear Aunt Sue,
I’ve been with this guy Tyler for a while and I really like him a lot. At first we were just hooking up, and we never talked about the relationship or anything. But it became a regular thing, and I developed feelings for him. Then I found out he hooked up with someone [...]
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