Tuesday, 16 March 2010
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Dating Advice from Michelle Obama
This is a guest post from Just A Guy Thing
In the current issue of Glamour magazine – not that I ever read it, BTW – First Lady Michelle Obama gives some amazingly sound advice on dating. Michelle just exudes common sense and it applies to her rule for dating:
“Cute’s good. But cute only lasts for so long, and then it’s, Who are you as a person? That’s the advice I would give to women: Don’t look at the bankbook or the title. Look at the heart. Look at the soul. Look at how the guy treats his mother and what he says about women. How he acts with children he doesn’t know. And, more important, how does he treat you? When you’re dating a man, you should always feel good. You should never feel less than. You should never doubt yourself. You shouldn’t be in a relationship with somebody who doesn’t make you completely happy and make you feel whole. And if you’re in that relationship and you’re dating, then my advice is, don’t get married.”
Now that’s great advice for both women and men!
photo credit (top): New York Times
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Props to her
You know what's funny, in the corner to the right of this website, there's an ad that says "Date Wealthy Men"... My irony sense is tingling.
Note to Mancouch: Sorry, I'll try to contribute something over the weekend after my exams so instead of posting more Should-Be-Datingish articles, you can have something with a pair.
I have this issue & she is so right! I love when she speaks. Michelle is so eloquent & friendly.
@mcmeister89 - For me it says "Date Wealthy Women"
Maybe it's just something about you
@nprospect - Damnit they're good...
@nprospect - @mcmeister89 - Mine says "meet hot guys." Should I be offended they think I'm that shallow, or happy at least they don't think I'm a gold-digger...?
Mine says nothing. Oop, Adblock is a wonderful thing.
This is what I'm always telling my girl(and boy)-friends.
Good, sound advice.
my ad says cougar dating! ha
yea mine says cougarlife.com.. win! ;)
Mine is for text dating, haha.
Michelle Obama is adorable. What great advice! <3
wow, because nobody has said all these things at one point or another. cliche, much?
Good advice, but yeah, it's cliche. She gave the beauty pageant answer.
how a guy treats his mother says A LOT. You can almost always tell what kind of guy he is from that. If he yells at his mom...he's gonna yell at you.
yeah continue dating bastards but just don't marry them. fantastic.
My ad says women's self defense classes. wat
@Alyxandri@xanga - @andsoshewrites@xanga - You have to consider the context. This magazine, even by its cover, looks to be obsessed with the superficials. Who is it that buys this mag? Maybe I'm stereotyping, but there's a good chance more than a few of the intended demographic needs to hear this. And just maybe, coming from the featured woman, who happens to be the First Lady of the United States, it will finally sink in.
Additional thought: Sure, what she's saying is common sense, but we should all know by now that common sense ain't so common.
While we're all sharing what our ads say: Mine says, "Moving? Switch your electricity plan today."
Anyway, I guess I'm in one of those relationships where I shouldn't get married.. damn it.
props to m. obama
@Unfettered_Mind@xanga - Very true.
@Unfettered_Mind@xanga - it is more than likely that they have heard those cliches more than once in their lives, and if we are going by the ignorant airhead stereotype, why would having her as a speaker matter, as opposed to any of their idols that they feed off of?
i do agree with you, though, on one point - sometimes, common sense isn't so common.
lovely. (:
:( according to what she say i shouldn't get married to the one i'm with
That's a great advice from Michelle Obama (albeit cliched and overworked), but I'd much rather hear her offer advices that can be useful to American citizens as a whole, rather than a small group of women desperate for dating "tips," which are hardly ever effective when it comes to the real thing anyway. Reading through everyone else's comments, apparently we all appreciate her contribution to the dating realm. I'm sorry, is she Oprah or our First Lady? I feel like there's something seriously wrong with the roles that are being swapped here. Her image as a political figure is practically going down the drain while these trendy magazines are begging her to grace their covers in the name of gossip and fun.
By the way, the best advice anyone could offer on dating is to not listen to what anybody tells you. Do what you feel is right.