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The End of Love

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Re: The End of Love

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Well, you could have started a legitimate conversation here about commitment or gender roles or whatever it is "blackpilled" means. With a genuinely diplomatic attitude and some nuance in your presentation you can broach most topics on here without getting too many downvotes.

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Re: The End of Love

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I can sympathize with the author's experiences, though I find things like One recent man had a lot going for him. In fact he was the most promising prospect I’d had in some time. But then he mentioned that he got his daily coffee from Starbucks, and I found it hard to imagine dating someone who liked Starbucks coffee; or even if they liked the coffee, didn’t find Starbucks so odious and soul-diminishingly ubiquitous…

Sounds like a Seinfeld plot for one of Jerry's relationships. Bet this lady also goes "Sorry, I just don't see it working out. Not with your green bubbles."

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Re: The End of Love

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I can sympathize with the author's experiences, though I find things like One recent man had a lot going for him. In fact he was the most promising prospect I’d had in some time. But then he mentioned that he got his daily coffee from Starbucks, and I found it hard to imagine dating someone who liked Starbucks coffee; or even if they liked the coffee, didn’t find Starbucks so odious and soul-diminishingly ubiquitous…

I think that is the problem with modern dating. There is too much information and too many choices available so that it is easy to reject someone for something that is obviously trivial. In the olden days you would sometimes fall for someone as you got to know them better, even if they had a few flaws that made them seem imperfect. There is a great Russian movie "Moscow does not believe in tears" where the heroine says she will never date a man with dirty shoes. She meets a man with messy shoes.. (spoiler) eventually they fall in love.

Re: The End of Love

#24

> The first date where the guy took a nap. Honestly sounds like a keeper. Imagine being that relaxed that you can just have a little snooze for a bit after meeting someone. If after 100+ first dates you don't like anyone, then perhaps face the reality that it's probably you, not them?

That's where I thought it was going, but no it is the end of love, not the end of dating or online dating, but the end of love.

Re: The End of Love

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> I have been on first dates with 107 people in the past five years, without securing a long-term love relationship with anyone

Time to take a good look in the mirror, honey.

Re: The End of Love

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> I have been on first dates with 107 people in the past five years, without securing a long-term love relationship with anyone Time to take a good look in the mirror, honey.

Fuckin A you are not wrong. If I went on 10 dates and couldn’t find someone I would be looking inward.

Re: The End of Love

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post #21

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Well, you could have started a legitimate conversation here about commitment or gender roles or whatever it is "blackpilled" means. With a genuinely diplomatic attitude and some nuance in your presentation you can broach most topics on here without getting too many downvotes.

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Re: The End of Love

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I think it is not the author's fault that the world is, in some ways - to some people - at some times, a meatgrinder. I have tremendous sympathy for her. It is often the case in the modern world that we are promised one thing by society and receive something quite different.

Promised by whom?

I think they promised themselves and want to blame society.
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