Dates give you the runs...Did you say dating makes you run?

"Let me ask you a question. What the heck is dating anyway except some long, drawn out process of elimination where you both try to present your best side while hiding the real you. And that can only last about three months anyway because eventually it leaks out and then you have to spend the next three months getting to know your real selves. And then one of you wants a commitment, the other one wants to bail and then you have to start all over again. I mean dating...dating...dating is stupid!" -Fools Rush In

My thoughts exactly! There's a reason why they call it the dating "game", because it's a game! Girls take it too seriously, guys don't take it seriously enough, and in the end, everyone is just confused and frustrated. Occasionally someone wins in this game, but those instances are few and far between. And as if dating isn't bad enough, guys don't even ask girls on dates anymore. We've been sentenced to "hanging out". The most noncommittal form of socialization between the sexes possible. Granted, it is fun, but it goes absolutely nowhere. Guys don't mean anything by it, and we girls read too much into it. It's like a guy patting you on the back when he hugs you. Sure he hugged you, but he also patted you on the back like he would his grandmother...you can't glean much affection from such an exchange, nor can you from hanging out. The problem is, nobody has a solution. We kind of just have to put our big girl panties of and deal with it cupcakes...