It's not unusual in a relationship for one person in the relationship to not get along with the other's friends as much as the other person in the relationship might like. And sure, it can be difficult to inherit a group of strangers and be expected to immediately form a meaningful bond with them based solely on the fact that you have a meaningful bond with someone that they know. But you must at least recognize, as a caring participant in a meaningful relationship, how important these friends are to your loved one, and how your effort to get along with his or her friends is actually a demonstration of your effort in the relationship. And if you still find yourself having trouble establishing a relationship with your boyfriend's or girlfriend's friends, then find a quiet, subtle way to excuse yourself from uncomfortable situations. What you should NOT do is constantly make fun of them for being a machine and insisting it's not even possible to be friends with a machine anyway when clearly it IS possible since some of us are friends with him and maybe even best friends. And don't roll your stupid eyes, or make snide remarks about the machine's weight as if that is any of your business, and definitely don't break them completely by tampering with their voltage regulator override circuit buttons on the back of their heads. Now your boyfriend's or girlfriend's friends don't even remember how to BE friends, much less any of their nice songs about God. Thanks a lot, Nick. Maybe you should spend a little less time on stiltedly ruining everything, and a little more time focusing on building that giant pile of broken wood (?).
Remember all your boyfriends who you date and love and make love to? Well, you also date and love and make love to these guys. Duh.
Is it weird for you? It must be like dating in a mirror, huh? "Being in a relationship is always a compromise, but in our case it's not that much of a compromise because we're almost exactly the same." That is what you say.
I'm still not entirely convinced that your boyfriend is even real. In some ways (in lots of ways) he seems like a pitch-perfect parody of a would-be Perez Hilton by some Improv 201 UCB graduate. He jumped over a fence to meet Monica? He just got the first look at the new Time magazine? C'mon son! But there's also something that's almost TOO REAL about him. That's probably why you love him so much. You guys will be out one night and it'll be three in the morning and he'll just be like, "oh my God, I seriously need some popcorn shrimp served in a champagne glass with a side of absinthe-scented cocktail sauce ASAP" (and of course he pronounces it a-sap) or "I'm sorry, I didn't hear anything you said for the past five minutes, because I was thinking about what it would be like if Lady Gaga was my roommate and we slept in bunk beds," and you're just like "are you for real right now, Micah Jesse? You are the worst! I want to kiss you on the mouth!" That is what you are like. (Via BuzzFeed.)
Huh? I don't know! Although I will say this: whoever made this video deserves to date whoever they want. As long as they don't murder and eat them afterward! I also appreciate that they used as broad of a definition of "President" as possible to also include Prime Ministers, Secretaries of State, egomaniacal dictators, and Popes. In this modern day of blurry gender roles and self-determined sexuality, it's important not to impose our value judgments on president-sexuals. They want the same things we want: love, security, and to be dating someone that respects them for who they are while simultaneously being either a President, or very close to a President, depending on a country's chosen (or imposed) form of government. Preferably one with a big MANDATE! (No politico.)
I'm sure that his sensitivity has opened him up to you emotionally and sexually in ways that you've never experienced with your previous lovers. But he needs to grow a pair if he's ever going to GET THAT MONEY. Who is going to pay for your fancy dates? Waiter, we are going to need another Tiramisu, this one is soaked with (his) tears!
Have you ever barfed so much that you couldn't barf anymore and you're just kneeling there over the toilet drawing up thin strands of hot, yellow bile, FROM YOUR EYES?
Somehow this is worse than blackface. I'm disappointed in you. For dating and loving and constantly having athletic sex with this man.
[Ed. note: due to a Netflix Error, the Hunt is postponed for a week. Boo hoo, I'm sure. We're all devastated.]
On a day like today, with Couples Retreat making headlines as the number one movie in the country and reminding us that there's nothing America loves better than Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau organizing a paid vacation to the Bahamas for themselves, it is hard to remember that there are even things to like in this world. Everything is so hatable! Jon Gosselin is claiming that he's half-Jewish? Shut up, Jon Gosselin. Shut your mouth. Roland Emmerich is making a movie about Shakespeare? Alas, poor Yorick! He blew his brains out, Horatio. So when you do find something that you like, HOLD ON TO THAT THING. Grip it tight, Of Mice and Men style, and try not to crush it in your soft-brained hands, but hug it and love it and keep it forever.
Today, we have two classic entries in this on-going search for elusive Human Happiness:
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