The Best Kind Of Guy Friend
You know who the best kind of guy friend is?
Relationships
Navigating Family, Friendship, Marriage, Colleagues, Companions & other social connections
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55 Words: Salsa With A Stranger
Couples floated across the dance floor, flowing over each other. Someone said, “Up close with a stranger. You sure?” She said, “I want to learn.” He smiled. They were the last couple on the floor. Melting into each other. Then the music stopped. She walked off the floor, leaving him…
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Office Capers: Cleanliness Is Next To Nothingness
I share an office cubicle with two colleagues. Are all men so untidy??? Arrrggghhh…I have about three seizures a week and one major case of heartburn once a fortnight. Put it all down to the ‘let’s call it creative’ habits of my cube-ies (cubbies? Sure, we do occupy a cubby-hole…
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Another Ex-Factor
“Who was that?”
“Oh, the ex-girlfriend of my ex-boyfriend.”
“She seems abnormally thrilled to see you.”
I had a chance to review my Ex policy.
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Raksha Bandhan: Bonds and Securities
This is a blog about gender roles and male-female relationships. This time its going to be about a non-sexual (so it is hoped!) relationship. I am an only child and probably am not really qualified to speak about sisters and brothers. On the other hand, I see and hear, I…
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Office Capers: Personality Splits
The office seems to be a permanent school of life in ‘Things you didn’t learn in b-school’. And some of those were lessons that sound familiar but I didn’t really understand them till I came to live them. During my management program, I worked on a lot of ‘team projects’…
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Judgment Call: When Women Make War On Each Other
Women judge each other and we make war. If a woman’s best friend must sign off on all relationship decisions, then she also has the power to wreck you with judgment.
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Men Are Like Waves
I navigate eligible men in the second wave of companionship. No rose-tinted glasses, just practical decisions & a pursuit of love without societal pressures.
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The Knot…Or The Noose?
Another shouting match with my family. You know those scenes in movies where they’re trying to show a person who’s slowly losing it? They have this deep distorted voice booming all around in dingy gray surroundings. That’s how I feel now. The pressure to tie the knot is making it…
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The “Untitled” Relationship
I believe everyone has been in love, in some form or the other, by the time they hit their late twenties. A lot of people I know have been in relationships. Most of them are even married and into that all-consuming activity of baby-making & rearing. Few people I know…
