BOOK REVIEW: Getting Over Mr Right

by Chrissie Manby
I was really looking forward to getting this book-the premise is perfect; a chick lit for today, with a girl getting over being dumped on Facebook by her boyfriend of three years.
It was a fun read, but I felt it just didn’t connect with me enough the way some chick lit books do. [...]

Need to vent? Just Don’t Press Send!

I spend a large amount of time writing. It’s my job after all. It hasn’t always been that way however. When I was at school my teachers despaired at the lack of effort I put into anything written. The problem wasn’t the writing- it was that I hadn’t found anything I was passionate about to [...]

How much of your love life is recorded online?

I got sent this awesome video- it’s a four minute long video of a whole relationship documented in photos- some candid, some posed. (And it’s not TRUE but it IS awesome!)

Thrush from Gabriel Bisset-Smith on Vimeo.
I love it, not just because it’s clever, but because it reminds me how much of our life is documented [...]

How to Date Your Ex

I just finished watching The Break Up on TV. I am not even sure why I watched it- it always makes me feel a little blue by the end- it’s such a good example of just how men and women speak completely different languages. Though I object to the idea that Vince Vaughn’s character had [...]

Is He About To Dump Me?

You’ve got a funny feeling your date is about to dump you but you can’t quite put your finger on it. You know you don’t want him to. Maybe you are just imagining it because you’re feeling insecure and silly. It can be so hard to tell! However there are some pretty common signs- so [...]

BREAKFAST: Home Alone this Christmas? Can you be festive and single?

If I had a dollar for ever time I’ve heard about a relationship breakdown in the last few weeks I would have had enough for a wee overseas holiday. It’s a common occurrence for this time of year for a variety of reasons.
I spoke on surviving the festive season as a singleton this morning on [...]

Catching a glimpse of your “other life”

I was thinking this morning about the two lives we lead- the one we live every day, and the one we thought we’d be living if things were different. Sometimes I feel moments where those two lives cross over and I catch a glimpse of the “other” life with is a little less stressful and [...]

Jump his bones or wait it out?

I posed an interesting question on twitterverse the other day- what would YOU do if someone you liked broke up with their boyfriend or girlfriend? How long would you wait before you made any kind of move?
The overall answer was this: if you think he or she is hot, and worth a shot, jump but [...]

Assumption is the mother of all f$#@ ups

 why it’s best to leave your phone on sometimes… 
This is a six minute video- and a link someone else sent me on twitter- but it just shows why it is really NOT a good idea (And oh I have done it myself though NOT to this extreme) of assuming that someone not answering you is [...]

Beating the break up blues

The other day a friend asked me if I could add him to Skype to make it easier for us to discuss a meeting we had been to. We then laughed at how many ways we were able to connect with each other- not only could we pick up a phone and chat, we were [...]

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