Category Archives for "Relationships and Social Skills"

A post about how to be less sensitive might be unpopular in 2022. We live in a day and age where more and more people are becoming hypersensitive. We have terms like microaggressions to describe how someone can deeply offend you without even knowing it. I care about the planet and want it to survive, […]

If you want to change your life for the better, surround yourself with good people. How many of us have heard the saying “You’re the average of the five people you spend the most time with,” but choose the five people we spend time with in a haphazard way? The biggest mistake people make when […]

The toxic traits you notice most in others are the ones strongest in you. Everyone, myself included, would like to see themselves as the good guy or gal and everyone else as bad. But we’re all fucked up in our own unique way and we’re almost always projecting. So, this list of toxic traits will […]

I’ll start with a little story about guacamole. I’ll tell you how I extracted a bunch of life lessons from a moment at Chipotle and saw deep into someone’s psyche after observing him for five seconds. I’m standing in line and the man in front of me is ordering his food. He gets a steak […]

Getting over someone is tough regardless of who ended the relationship. I’d never used the word depressed to describe myself up until that point in my life. But, at this point in my life, I was depressed. The rug had been pulled from underneath me. I’d tell people that it was mutual, but she left […]

“You should read this book.” I was in college at the time. One thing about being in college is that you’re really horny all the time. My horny friend gave me this book to read and my horny ass read the book. This book was called The Game. A journalist named Neil Strauss went uncover […]

I had a friend in college named Eric. Eric was short and he was well aware that he was short. Too aware. He struggled mightily with dating. He’d ask me for help from time to time. We’d go out to bars and I’d help him try to talk to girls. We’d find a group to […]

Emotional vampires drain you of the life force necessary to live a happy, healthy, and meaningful life. Some types of emotional vampires are easy to spot. Others hide in plain sight. People grossly underestimate the impact their environment has on their life. I know the ‘five people you spend the most time with’ idea is […]

We suffer from the disease of more. Almost all the messaging in society tells you that you need to add something to feel better about yourself. You need better clothes, a nicer car, a bigger home. Or, it tells you that you need to change something about yourself to feel good. Even seemingly positive messages […]

Your relationship with yourself spills into all of your relationships, period. We’ve all had moments in our life where our relationship with ourselves was more responsible for our real-world outcomes, whether or not we want to admit it. An inability to be alone can push away partners and friends because of co-dependency. We blame other […]