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The Marrying Kind, The Lying Swine, and the Online Shame Machine: Guyspeak's Best Of the Week

A 21-year-old called "Wifey material?"  A husband with an active dating profile?  Facebook?  It's either Friday night at my place or Guyspeak's Best of the Week.


Oh.  It's both.  Well, let's do the best of the week so I can get this cheating husband out of the house with my nunchaku.


Why Do Guys Don't Like Me?  I'm F*cking Hot!


Funny Guy: Hi Mom, I've told you more than once now, please write to me on my regular email. This is my place of work. If you have a question like this, ask me at gmail or even online.

IF, If, if, this is someone else, allow me to respond here. Though you may be as physically hot as steaming dog sh*t, it actually takes more than that. You are not a snapshot. You are a 3 dimensional being and that means personality and interaction.
Perhaps your personality is awful. Though one sentence is not enough to work with, your sentence happens to give a lot of clues as to why guys choose others: arrogance? Self entitled? A total disregard for sentence structure? A narrow view of beauty? A potty mouth?

There. Four possible reasons using only nine words from you. I may be wrong, but the point is to take a look in you not at you and see what you're projecting.

There are plenty of girls that guys don't not like. And they're not that f*cking hot.


RP RespondsAmit nails it in one.  As I've mentioned elsewhere, hot counts for nothing if you're dumb as a brick, nasty as a swarm of wasps, or worse, both.


Should I tell my best friend that her husband has an active profile on a dating website? It says he's been online within the last 24 hours. I'm pretty sure she doesn't know bc I'd be getting an earful if she knew. Should I tell her or just mind my own business? I don't want to hurt her.

Girls' BFF: Yes, you should tell your best friend that her husband has a dating profile...an ACTIVE one at that. Here's the thing, it isn't like you were spying on him, you came across his profile. While you shouldn't tell her that she needs to leave her husband, what you should do is direct her to the place to see what her husband is up to so that she can then go to her husband and find out what's going on.

This isn't he said/she said because you're not seeing something that can be construed the wrong way. In this scenario, she can directly go find out herself and see the proof. You will have done no meddling or anything short of alerting her to what you saw.

And maybe she does know and she and her husband are into swinging or something (clearly I'm making stuff up here). Point is, as a wife, I'm sure she'd want to know if her husband was out there messing around, or trying to.

It might hurt her, but finding out later that her husband was cheating on her will hurt worse and then you might feel guilty because you never let her know. Maybe you tell her and she doesn't care and she laughs it off. Maybe she does though and the conversation she takes to her husband addresses some issues they have.

Point, she deserves to know.

RP Responds: Cheating is a bad thing, and whether it's your business or not, your friend needs to know.


I'm 21, and a lot of guys won't date me because apparently (according to them) I'm the wife/wifey type. What does that even mean? Am I screwed for forever? Because I feel like giving up.


Wise-Ass: I have no idea what that means, sorry. I've heard people talk about the kind of girls you date versus the kind you marry, but I never really understood that. Wouldn't you want to marry the kind of girl you would date?

Why don't you ask them what it means? Do they think you're boring? Too motherly? Too nice? Too chaste? Maybe it's about sowing your wild oats before you settle down. What's funny is that in a few years they will be looking for a "wife type" to marry.

I say ask them what that means and why they say it. I don't think you're screwed, no. I think they're juvenile and clueless.

Thanks for the question.

RP Responds: I wouldn't trust 21-year-old guys to know what "wifey" material is in the first place.  Don't worry, you'll find somebody.

I never like guys (well I very very rarely like them) I've recently met a guy and I've turned into one of those annoying staring at my phone, obsessive, irritating girls who always talks about her man. My friends say it's cute but I'm terrified in case he disappears, and I get hurt. How do I stop? :(

Mystery Man: OK, gentle time. I hate these .....

You don't. You cannot get eat without opening your mouth, right? You cannot fall in love without opening your heart. Those are the stakes and you already paid. Might be regretting it slightly now, but all sales are final, no refunds given.

Love hurts. Accept that right now. It is also wonderful.

The obsessive stage will pass, it always does. You got it bad cause you are one of these "all in" people. You are in the very early stages of the relationship, otherwise, why would he potentially disappear? He can, however, be frightened off quite easily. So, to answer the question within your question:

Don't go putting him on a pedestal too often. It may be good for the ego, but the air gets awful thin up there.
Make sure he has some space and you are not always hovering. 
Relax. Take a deep breath and dial it back a notch. Not much, just turn it from 11 to 10.

For those curious as to the question within the question, it was obviously "How do I keep him?"


RP Responds: Mystery Man has it nailed; you've got to put yourself out there to get anywhere.

Is Facebook a temporary fad, or a permanent part of our lives?

Chic Geek: Interesting question. For better or worse, I think Facebook will be a permanent part of our lives in some form or another. It's telling that despite all the changes and updates (like, say, the new Timeline that just unrolled), we all haven't jumped ship yet. We complain about it (usually on Facebook, of course) but after a couple weeks we adjust and continue to post, share and comment on the minutia of our own lives and the lives of friends. 


Sure, there will be other social networks or online distractions (Google+, Pinterest, Diaspora, etc.), but they'll all be trying to compete with and/or improve on Facebook. Facebook has been in the social consciousness for roughly seven years now -- MySpace and Friendster had about three years each before they became a joke. Even though I have some problems with Facebook (and I'm mostly annoyed by Timeline) I still greet every new social media thingie from the viewpoint of "Well, how is this more worthwhile than Facebook?" Think about all the things that have become less used because of Facebook -- when's the last time you used eVite when planning a party? In terms of keeping up with almost everyone I know and sharing stuff about my life with them, I can't imagine anyone topping the house that others built and Zuckerberg took all the credit for anytime soon.


Plus, until they make a movie about MySpace, I'd say that particular war has been won.


RP Responds: I think Facebook will be around until investors realize it's not worth $100 billion. Then expect things to get interesting in a hurry.


As for myself, I'm taking the Mystery Man route and abstaining: there's only so much stroking of one's ego you can do in public. Now if you'll excuse me, I've got a jerk to throw out of my house.


See you next week!




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