In the year 2016, man is still evolving. Each moment gives us a chance to shed worthless, dangerous ideas and give way to a more evolved self. With that, the idea of manhood is also changing. As I look at who men are today, where we have come from, and where we going, I wanted to list seven harmful traits we can get rid of when measuring what a man is. These are misogynistic, sexist, homophobic, and foolish trains of thought that do not serve us any purpose, but to weigh us down in the mire of stupidity and idiocy. If you know a man that references any of these…

How common are office romances? baranq/Shutterstock While you might have a hard and steadfast rule against dating a coworker, Vicki Salemi, Monster.com career expert says office romances are more common than we might think. In fact, in a recent study, 38 percent of co-workers say they’ve dated a coworker at some point in their professional career. Why? Salemi says it’s a simple truth that too many singles know to be true: meeting someone is a lot of work. “It can be challenging to meet someone outside the office and considering we spend so much time working, it’s likely for relationships to organically form,” she notes. Looking to see if there’s…

Laughable, at least, in the sense that claiming you’ve outgrown a person or a relationship suggests that you’ve involuntarily become bigger than the relationship. A partner is not a pair of pants, and you can’t outgrow them like a bean sprout of a teenager who grew four inches over the summer. As full-grown adults – we clean out our closets for many reasons. Because we left an old job, chose a new job, had a baby, or are bored and looking to spice up our life. We clean out our closets by choice, and rarely out of true necessity. To say we “outgrow” a partner seems to imply something that…

Stepping out of that 33-year ‘starter marriage’ and meeting Terry—a man who had also been in a 33-year starter marriage—was beyond fascinating. About ten months after leaving another relationship and noticing each other at various events, we connected on Valentine’s Day. When Terry mentioned he liked jazz, I told him about a place where there was a very talented jazz musician and talked about getting a group of people together to go out dancing. He called me the next day and let me know that if I got a group together, he’d love to join us. I told him I didn’t know about getting a group together right away and…