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I just wanted to update this thread with my thoughts on the book. Since I wrote this, several things happened to me that 2005 me would have thought impossible: I got married and have four children. We are having some trouble. I started a business which failed out of passivity on my end...

I think she has you pegged, because you're saying things I've found myself saying and bliz is describing conclusions about you that I have already concluded about myself. I too am sometimes tormented by the idea that my girlfriend might unwittingly become attracted to a male friend of hers...

Show some good social sense and keep the coffee date.

Man, I had an essay all typed up and my browser ate it. Here's the recap: Good for: -people refusing to handle a problem they should handle (me) -people whose hobby is effectively "nothing" (tv, aimless web browsing, pulp novels) -members of fatally effeminate churches Bad for: -people who...

All I've seen it do is catylize mid-life crises, turn cool people into overbearing type As, and irritate the rest of us whose talents and skills are decidedly cerebral.

Interesting. Reference?

The church won't let you. ;) I wouldn't mind a hollow-walled house, and I think I would make a fine deacon in a good Reformed church. Those are specifics, though: mainly we just want a good house and church to raise kids in.

What these women don't realize, I think, is that they DO look beautiful if they're in their natural weight range, even if it's very high or very low. The problem is when women clearly (as in visibly) above or below their weight range try to pass themselves off as "still healthy." With the...

Plato considered his wrestling as important as his writing. Thousands of saints through history valued the physical benefits of fasting and as well as the spiritual. In his diary, Jim Elliot wrote more than once on the importance of limited eating for servants of Christ. Excluding those with...

It really means a lot of things. Quite often it can go from "she's beautiful" to "nice ____" to imagining her in all sorts of compromising positions and (lack of) attires in seconds.

Happens with shallow pop period, you mean?

Come on, now.

"I just got an e-mail that we lost the sale, we're really f*ed financially, we can't afford the drive to church, and I'm not in the mood to see people, and my face is breaking out." Am I the only one who chuckled? I realize vanity is the least of his sins, but still...

It's nice to proceed with a clear conscience, knowing you exhausted your resources in your valiant attempt to save your marriage.

Trick question?

Almost none; I'm completely against it. I watch Arrested Development once a week when it's on, but I wouldn't start watching a new show.

Evie, like Jude the Obscure, really makes a man think.

Unless your wife commands a huge salary, I'll bet her net income isn't that much when you subtract directly related expenses (daycare, babysitters, gas, etc.) and indirectly related expenses (eating out, etc.). Factor in extra time the both of you spend making taking care of things that you...

"I only date white people." ...were you expecting any opinion variety at all?

In a fit of girlfriend-induced depression and unchecked lust, I behaved almost identically to your husband. I know his heart was adulterous.