"Dating"

In The Modern World

"Romance is dead.
It was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark,
homogenized,
and sold off, piece by piece."
- Lisa Simpson

From the sound of things,

it would seem like "dating" today, in the free, post-revolution world,
should be constant fun . . .

- a nonstop party
where you meet tons of cool, interesting, good people,
experience miraculous, ecstatic, life-changing moments,
fall in love . . .

and live happily ever after.

 

But those of us

who are actually out there

know the truth . . .

Before dating. . .

Happy happy, joy joy, love love!!

After dating . . .

Ice cream. I want ice cream. Lots of it.

Before dating. . .

I'm so cool, I should be on MTV.

After dating . . .

Somebody kill me . . . please . . .

Before dating. . .

True love, here I come!!

After dating . . .

This is probably going to hurt a bit.

It's a fact: dating is one of the most important things we do in life.

It determines who we will or won't marry,
who we will or won't have kids with,
what we experience in terms of sex,
it can have some big effects on our confidence and character,
- and we can't forget to mention things like pregnancy, rape, and pretty unpleasant diseases.

So if this actually is one of the most important things we do in life . . . where, exactly, are we supposed to learn how to be smart about it?

From school? Sex-ed classes, textbooks, teachers, and scientists?
From our friends? (Where did they learn it from?)
From our parents? (How well did it work for them?)
From bad self-help books?

. . . or the way most people do,
completely on our own,
the hard way,
using trial and error?

This sounds
like a job
for LiveReal.

CONTINUE . . .