I must admit, I’m not familiar with the intricacies of the Girl Code. The Bro Code on the other hand, I’m moderately versed. These social norms, while far from official, does somehow govern a lot of our friend to friend interactions. The question I’m addressing today involves the Girl Code and of course the section on guys. This will be my first time stepping onto unknown territory, but I think I’ll still be able to help. More »

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Twice before I wrote about unrequited love. Those times the girls I was helping liked a guy that didn’t like them back. But what do you do when a guy likes you and you don’t feel the same way? The answer isn’t always easy to see. Someone’s heart is essentially set on you. You need to be sure you let it down gently — that is unless you’re just a heartless person. Hopefully none of my readers are like that. More »

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The world has a way of moving forward even if you’re not completely ready to. Blink for a second and an important opportunity can pass you by. Stand indecisively and you can lose your way. As tragic and true as all this may be, rarely does life only provide one chance for love — one chance for happiness. With 6.5 billion people in the world, love can often quite literally be around the corner. From experience, it is often around multiple corners. The trick, more often than not, is to just be open to it. Sadly, the vast majority of people do not know what it really means to be open to new opportunities. More »

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Probably the most exciting part about a relationship is the initial stage when it’s just forming. There is so much uncertainty and anticipation during this time. Every little interaction between the nascent couple will be scrutinized. He said this what does it mean? He did that, what does it mean? This is fun for some — especially those on the outside looking in. However, for the couple involved, it can be quite difficult to bear and possibly devastating if it doesn’t work out. The user question I’m answering today has the author undergoing this phase now. More »

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As much as I wish it wasn’t, dating is very much so a game. It generally has an opening phase that most people refer to as flirting. For the uninitiated, that means a series of seemingly inconsequential gestures and glances (in more extreme cases, groping). Attention to detail is key in this game. Every spoken word has multiple levels of subtext. Every subtle body movement reveals progress or pitfalls. Like chess, you often need to think several moves in advance and lead your questions to your desired answers. Often times, victory — as measured by obtaining a phone number, business card, or email address — hinges on one critical endgame moment, or as some would say, “closing the deal.” No matter how I describe flirting, I can never encompass the entire range of complexities involved. You can play this game a hundred million times and it will be different every time. Perhaps that’s why some people enjoy it so throughly. More »

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One of the most amazing things in the world to me is how music can resonate so much in an individual, all the way down to the soul sometimes. There’s a song to describe every single mood, every single emotion, and every single moment — from pre-crush to heartbreak with all the highs and lows in between. In many ways music is a better vocabulary for love than words can ever be because it conveys more than just how you feel, but also what the emotion actually feels like to the person listening. I think Utada Hikaru’s - First Love is a prime example of this. You may have never had a first love in life, but listening to that song, you can kinda understand what it feels like to have one. Today’s user that I’ll be helping picked Taylor Swift’s - You Belong to Me. Can you see where this is going? Can you guess which role she sees herself in? More »

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As great and wonderful a feeling that love can be, it can also be downright cruel. For every happy pair of songbirds, there’s seemingly always at least one jealous person that wants to break them up. I don’t necessarily think it’s a bad thing to envy others. It’s human nature to want happiness for yourself when you see others having it. What makes you a bad person if you start acting on your feelings of jealousy and purposely sabotaging the happiness of others. However, what if the Mr. and Mrs. Songbird aren’t good for each other? What if you think Mr. Songbird and you could sing better songs together? Sometimes the circumstances aren’t so clear. The user whose problem that I’m addressing today is in a rather complicated position where helping can actually be more problematic than doing nothing. More »

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Unrequited love? Who hasn’t been there. How cruel can the universe be to exist these one-sided feelings of want and longing. More often than not, they only lead to sadness, or even worst, depression. Rarely do I see this working out well like how it does in the movies or on TV where the guy suddenly sees the girl “for the first time” through a difference lens and falls hopelessly in love with said girl. I’m not saying it’s impossible, but I’m being kind by being cruel when I say to not get your hopes up. Having been on both side of this unequal equation I can say that it’s no fun either way. Of course every situation is different and we’ll be exploring one such case right now. More »

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I would like to thank Jinra and the Girlybubble team for asking me to do this. I was hesitant at first, but now I think this could be fun. For my first column on Girlybubble, I’d like to address “liking” someone. Most of the questions so far are related to that. (I guess there aren’t many girls with boyfriends already?) It only makes sense to focus on likes first as liking someone is the first step in a relationship. Many of us, if not all of us, have had a crush before. A crush — or that feeling that’s a mixture of warmth, happiness, anxiety, hope, and a dozen others across the entire spectrum of possible human feelings — is that feeling you get whenever someone you like crosses your line of sight and automatically a million different wonderful scenarios swirl in your head. Everyone, even babies, know when they like someone. The big question is, how do you know if they like you back? The user whose questions I’m about to answer is experiencing this feeling now. More »

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Boys. They’re confusing. To help with the confusion, we have a new feature called Ask The Boy Next Door. A gentleman by the name of ‘The Boy Next Door‘ has happily agreed to answering any of your queries about boys, dating and relationships. For privacy reasons, The Boy Next Door has requested that we refer to him as ‘The Boy Next Door.’ He’s something of an expert at the male brain, being male and all. Additionally, he’s no stranger to the dating scene. More »

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