In honor of spring, the guys blossomed delicate and fragrant answers to you questions this week. They covered exes, texters, sex pots and friend-zone-violators. Not to mention birthday cake. Because who doesn't love birthday cake? (Answer: no man worth his Y chromosome.)
Here are the top five GuySpeak answers of the week:
1. What's with guys texting instead of calling? Is this some sort of "game" thing?
Metro-textuals aren't trying to game you - or practice their Tiger Woods sexting skillz. Mystery Man puts it bluntly: Dudes are cowards. If a guy is calling you to ask you out, he is praying you don't pick up. If the dude doesn't man up and call, ignore him.
Tough love. True words.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me ten times - one of us needs therapy. Wise-Ass offers this sound advice: You can tame a tiger, but I wouldn't turn my back on it. It's still a tiger. He probably does love you and wants to treat you better. But there's a big difference between wanting and doing. Love is action, not words.
Speaking of action ...
Well, you have three choices, according to Reformed Player:
1) Get ugly, fast. Chug pints of nacho cheese and eat Hamburger Helper directly from the skillet.
2) Hang out with different guys.
3) Become more proactive. Let the men in your life know that you are fun, open, and looking for a giggle. This is called compromise, and it happens to the best of us.
You know what else happens to the best of us? Or the worst of us? Boyfriends.
4. What if you've got a BF, but one of your guy friends also wants to slide into the boyfriend zone?
Straight up tell him you're taken! Funny Guy breaks it down this way: Telling him you've already got a boyfriend is about the easiest you'll ever let a guy down. It's no harm, no foul. If you really can't man up, try, "Oh, you like Cormac McCarthy? My boyfriend likes to read passages from The Road when I'm blowing him." Trust me, he'll get the hint.
5. It's birthday time for your new boy - if you bake him a cake does that count as a gift?
Ding, ding, ding! Chic Geek says making sweets for your sweeties is the perfect present solution: It's a way of sharing your interests with him, while also going after his heart via the stomach. Since it's early in the relationship, you don't want to overload him with gifts and put the pressure on. He's a lucky guy!
And we're lucky ladies to get such great advice. Thanks, guys!
This is like the SparkNotes of GuySpeak answers. Love it, Carrie!
I'm sorry, but I don't get why you're on here Carrie. Sure you are a competent, funny writer, but this is guyspeak. We come here to get guys advise, not girls. And I don't get this article, either. Why summarise what other people wrote?
I kind of agree with Hmm, but at the same time, I think this site could have a whole new twist with "galspeak." Why not have a couple more female writers, and have a place where the guys could specifically ask females for advice?
Also... is there any rhyme or reason to how many questions each of the guys will/can answer in a day? I often wish you guys could answer more questions each day. Then again, I get really bored at work...
I happen to agree as well...I can see where the idea came from, but I think a separate section/site would be a better idea. This particular blog entry was pretty disappointing...if I want to know how the question was answered, I just read the answer...I don't need it summarized and agreed with by someone else.
If, perhaps, the "Gal Pal" section was a place to get advice on "being one of the guys" instead, then it would make more sense. But I come to this site to get a guy's insight...there are a lot of places to find other female input, including much easier to access girlfriends.
And in the time I've been following the site, the number of questions answered a day has dropped. Blogs don't come out as regularly either. If you need more questions, say the word! You guys could probably even get suggestions for blog topics if there's a shortage of ideas.
I don't mean to sound so negative, I really do LOVE this site and all the guys and their unique ways of answering questions. You've all helped me out quite a bit!!!