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"One of the things about which I&amp;#x27;ve been really evaluative is about the kinds of guys I&amp;#x27;m dating--or could potentially date. Blah, blah, the world is my oyster &amp;#x27;n&amp;#x27; stuff. But like, it kind of is, right? Behold, men of the world: I&amp;#x27;m blogging about our relationship. Be scared, very scared. No, wait...don&amp;#x27;t run. Imagine my chagrin, then, when I was told, &amp;quot;Well, that may not be the case.&amp;quot; My writerly friend Jeff Wilser (whom some of you loyal Glamour readers may recognize from &amp;#x27;round these parts) and I sat and had tea last weekend, trading stories about how we both write about our relationships, and got around to talking about how that necessarily precludes a certain group of people as potential matches; some people just can&amp;#x27;t take knowing that their relationship is being processed as they go. Jeff told me about how being a relationship writer for years--so much of his career has been built on spilling the details of what&amp;#x27;s going through his single guy&amp;#x27;s head--has kind of, well, sabotaged some of his options for entire types of women. I get it. I mean, I tell myself that I&amp;#x27;m never writing about a guy, per se--rather about my reaction to how I date--but it&amp;#x27;s never that simple, is it? I&amp;#x27;ve been super-lucky that the guys with whom I&amp;#x27;ve gone out have been cool with me writing while dating. But if I&amp;#x27;m trying to date a different kind of guy than I&amp;#x27;ve dated before and I find out that he&amp;#x27;s not-so-OK with what I&amp;#x27;m doing, I have to ditch him, right? That just means he&amp;#x27;s not OK with me. So much for that big, fat oyster. I realize that this doesn&amp;#x27;t mean I have to go and date the same kind of guy that Josh was, or that Isaac was, or that any of my exes were. But you know what it does point to...which all signs keep pointing to, in fact? Ding ding ding--big changes are necessarily going to come from me. I may not end up dating someone so wildly different from people with whom I&amp;#x27;ve been in the past, especially if something that&amp;#x27;s important to me rules out big chunks of people. And who knows: relationship blogging may. It&amp;#x27;s up to me, I think, to be a different, better, stronger, more dynamic partner in a relationship--and yes, that includes emoting. I think I broke a sweat from all of this self-discovery. Sheesh. Are there entire types of people you can&amp;#x27;t date? Photo: Thinkstock"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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