Category Archives: Love

SYBD ARCHIVE: Infidelity – The Timeless Act of Being Cheated On

[Translate] What follows is an article, first posted on SYBD back in 2000, about the timeless subject of infidelity…written by a woman with experience of it in a variety of levels and different situations. ***** When I was in high … Continue reading

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SYBD: 50 Life Lessons Worth Sharing

[Translate] The following 50 lines were posted on our forum by a girl Juillet507 five years ago. In researching something else (affirmations)  I came across them and decided to re-post it here on the SYBD blog. After a bit of … Continue reading

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SYBD ARCHIVE: Thea’s Guide to Online Dating

[Translate] Lately I’ve been scouring the old archive articles of SYBD – going right back to Day One of the site (July 2000, incidentally). Anyway I came across this one which is seemingly even more relevant today as it’s so … Continue reading

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SYBD ARCHIVE: Is This “The One”? – by Curt Degenhart

[Translate] Lately I’ve been going back through the archives of SYBD when I came across this article from 2001. It’s a seemingly-timeless topic from Curt Degenhart who writes all about “the one” (….if there is such a thing that is). What … Continue reading

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OLD THREAD: ‘An Open Letter to My Ex’

[Translate] This was posted (by a guy!) on the forum many years ago. I’ve edited it down a wee bit (made a few tiny alterations), but it is effectively a the guy’s real thread, written some months after his break … Continue reading

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THEA: “When You’re Single You Can Sleep In the Star Position”

[Translate] So I was driving to the office this morning when on the CD player came the Marcellus Hall song “Star Position“.  The song is so cheery it makes me smile every time I hear it. It’s a pop song … Continue reading

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THEA: “Look for the Good & Praise it”

[Translate] When I was young, my mother had a hair salon in the top floor of our home. On the mirror in it, was a bumper sticker stating, “look for the good and praise it”. It wasn’t until a few … Continue reading

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SYBD: Happy Holidays! Heartbroken? Have FUN!

[Translate] Cannes Kiss Well as it’s December 24, for many of us (but not all of course), it’s the officially “the holidays”. It’s that time that single people tend to either really look forward to or they dread, very rarely … Continue reading

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Guest Blog: Stop Comparing Men To “Aidan”

[Translate] by Jimmy Jacob Just Leave I met this remarkable girl a couple of years ago. She was witty, smart and had a love for horror films from the seventies. We started dating and everything was going great until she … Continue reading

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SYBD: 5 Things to Consider Before Writing a Letter to Your Ex

[Translate] Write a Letter? Over the years here, there have been countless questions, comments, musings about whether or not someone should write a letter to their ex. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve contemplated that myself on a … Continue reading

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