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The Jerk Card

I love my therapist - she has awesome suggestions all the time for practical ways to deal with issues in your life. I think everyone should have therapy at some point in their life to examine issues that have been problematic and also to have an un-biased confidant with resources to help you. If you're like me, you want to see the good in people and you often do this to your own detriment. Missing an ex we were surely in love with is a great example... quite often we romanticize the good parts of a lost relationship instead of accurately remembering the good and the bad. I also have a tendency to romanticize people as being "better" for me than they actually are. Often it's very difficult to let go of someone you have attached to if you're incorrectly remembering the past. This is where the 'jerk card' comes in. Now I'd say on the whole usually people need reminders about the good in each other but it's the opposite for me. Someone has been a...

no more drama? @okcupid followers & friends respond

This is a phrase I keep seeing on dating profiles... to me, "no drama" has begun to be code for, "no feelings"... or "please God NO FALLING IN LOVE." I realize we all view this phrase differently. So I posed the question to the twitter-verse and here are some answers I got: 1. No drama = no unwanted display of emotions and no undesired unpredictability. It's a major red flag if you want a giving partner. 2. I'd say it has more to do with no craziness, undue jealousy, possessiveness... And women say it too. 3. answer: No, it's code for: when we fall in love and you get issues, please solve them yourself and don't burden me with them :P. 4. I have found that "no drama" usually means they bring plenty of their own drama and resent the competition. 5. "no drama" = red flag. Either he wants a girl with no opinions or he has crazy exes (& is probably a bit crazy too) 6. I think it means no dating at all. Like, "Le...