Category Archives: Amy Waterman

Courting Like Insects: Helen Fisher’s Anatomy of Love

I’m always suspicious of scientists who try to generalize from animal behavior to human behavior. Animals lack the enormously complex social structures that condition our behaviors and cultural expressions. Whether it is true, as Kant believed, that we are a step above animals because we can project ourselves into the future and envision the consequences of our actions, the fact remains that generalizing from insects to people is a rather far stretch. Continue reading

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Dating Is Not Just For Beautiful People

Dating Is Not Just For Beautiful People You would think it was obvious. But how many women justify their single status by saying, “I’m not good-looking enough to attract men”? Personal appearance is the first excuse on the dateless woman’s … Continue reading

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Why You Should Ditch the Rules

If you keep yourself from doing certain things around men and make yourself do others based on FEAR that you’ll make a mistake or FEAR that he’ll reject you, then you’re setting the foundation for a relationship based on insecurity.

It’s the same error our grandmothers and great-grandmothers made so many years ago: they looked to the MEN to define whether they were in a relationship, what form it would take, and how long it would last. Continue reading

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When Do You Know If He’s Right?

Twenty years ago, I loved all boys. I played with them innocently and full-heartedly. Boys were my playmates, my cohorts in crime, and my teammates for games. I could think no evil of boys. Their strange preferences for dirt, body odor, cars, and constrictive underpants were simply idiosyncrasies of fascinating playmates. Continue reading

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Why It’s Called a Breakup

He’s Just Not That Into You revolutionized my perspective on dating. Friends who read it suddenly “got” why previous relationships had dissolved. Greg explains that the simple reason why some relationships stuck together and others didn’t was because the guys who are really into you want to be with you … no matter WHAT. Continue reading

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