It’s the new Atkins: no more pasta, and no more second dates with men who do not hit « Reply » promptly enough.<\/p>\n
Rebecca Traister in Salon<\/a> does a good job at debunking the myth around the highly popular book called He’s just not that into you<\/a>, a dating advice book that explains to single women that when a man doesn’t call them or doesn’t answer their IM promptly, then well, he’s just not that into them, so they should forget about him.<\/p>\n I know a lot of couples who would not be together now if the woman had not been oh so slightly persistent…<\/p>\n Dear male readers, if you feel so inclined, read the « Maybe He Doesn’t Want to Ruin the Friendship » part of the book (4th paragraph here<\/a>), and let us girls know what you really think:<\/p>\n I hate to tell you, but that whole « I don’t want to ruin the friendship » excuse is a racket. It works so well because it seems so wise. Sex could mess up a friendship. Unfortunately, in the entire history of mankind, that excuse has never ever been used by someone who actually means it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s the new Atkins: no more pasta, and no more second dates with men who do not hit « Reply » promptly enough. Rebecca Traister in Salon does a good job at debunking the myth around the highly popular book called He’s just not that into you, a dating advice book that explains to single… Continue reading The new Atkins<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}