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“For it is not inertia alone that is responsible for human relationships repeating themselves from case to case, indescribably monotonous and unrenewed: it is shyness before any sort of new, unforeseeable experience with which one does not think oneself able to cope. But only someone who is ready for everything, who excludes nothing, not even [...]

Follow-through

You know you’ve got issues when even your therapist is bugging you about starting to date again …

But it’s like this; I’m scared. I’m scared to death of repeating the same mistakes that I made when I was married. I’m afraid that I will still not be able to open up and share who [...]

Reality bites …

Had an appointment with the crazy doctor tonight … and I’ve got a lot of thinking to do about some of the things that have been going through my head the past week or so.

Things like:

Beating myself up for stepping out of my comfort zone, and failing. Rather than beating myself up, I [...]

Ah, chick flicks …

I’ve said it before; if not on this blog, then elsewhere …

I love chick flicks, especially of the romantic comedy sort. Perhaps it comes from being raised by women; or perhaps I just have a keenly defined sense of the aesthetic and am not afraid to let my self experience emotion (except in terms [...]

Neural commuting …

There is a theory in cognitive therapy that people repeat the same patterns because our minds become used to traveling particular neural paths; and thus seek those paths.

It’s sort of the mental equivalent of commuting … where you always take the same route to work, even though you know that sometimes traffic is really [...]

The Laws of Attraction

Seems like a lot of my friends are wondering if it’s possible for men and women to be friends without the ugly spectre of sex rearing its head.

Here’s my take on the issue, from a guy’s perspective … it is possible to maintain a simple friendship with a woman without the relationship being sexual. [...]

I really hate this process …

… and it’s obviously not very easy on K. either.

She thinks that I’ve been portraying her in a bad light when I’ve discussed her and the process of our break-up here. If I have, it was certainly not my intention to do so …

I feel that I’ve been more than fair in portraying [...]

Redefinitions

I don’t want to scrap the relationship … but …

Maybe dating other people is part of figuring out what we want. I’m sure it will hurt no matter what happens, or with whom, but I have a particular problem with certain people and situations.

I don’t know if my negative feelings would be as [...]