The Mental Gymnastics of Dating

By Alexis Morgan

Why is it that when we start dating someone we start playing mental gymnastics? As soon as we meet the other person, the games begin: When do I call her? What if it's too soon? What if I've waited too long? What if this, or what if that? We start self-analyzing and undergo all sorts of mental angst over something that should be warm fuzzies.

So what's the deal here? Is this some relict of our chromosomal ancestry that we can't control? A struggle for power between team XX and team XY. Whatever the case, it's real and it looks like it's here to stay - at least for now. The plethora of movies and shows that exploit this bizarre habit that we all seem to innately poses, attributes to this fact. Beautiful Girls, Chasing Amy, There's Something About Mary, Swingers or TV shows like Sex and the City and Seinfeld, all seem to poke right at the heart of this nasty little creature.

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