Tuesdays with Muerte

Preface As many of you already know, I just ended an eight-month relationship, which I thought was going to last infinitely longer. Upon returning to the single's  dating pool,   I realized that my stay would be finite, and that I didn't have nearly enough funny dating stories to share with my posterity. This  #datingprobs  post is an attempt to remedy that. Enjoy. The FB Epiphany Three weeks into my return to Tinder dating, I came to another realization—that I wasn't dependent on a dating app to present me with suitable, online-dating prospects. I have a facebook account! Facebook already suggests friends that it thinks I'd be compatible with. So why not leverage this list for dating purposes?!  (Surprisingly, this was the first time the thought of using facebook to  find  friends had seriously occurred to me. Perhaps, I should have thought more about why that was before doing what I did next.)  With fresh eyes, I looked at the...

1) Your Partner is the Secret to Career Success BY CINDI MAY, SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN Researchers have identified  conscientiousness  as the character trait in a significant other that allows you to excel in your profession. [The rest is sciencey stuff:  In their longitudinal study, Solomon and Jackson tracked responses from 4,544 heterosexual married people, roughly 75% of whom were in dual-income households. Participants first completed a personality assessment that measured five personality traits: extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism, and openness.] 2) Loving Others and Living with Differences BY ELDER DALLIN H. OAKS Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, LDS.ORG Here are some key quotes I enjoyed from Elder Oaks' address: "We are to live in the world but not be of the world."   (see  Luke 13:21 ;  Matthew 13:33 ; also  1 Corinthians 5:6–8 ). "Even as we seek to be meek and to avoid contention, we ...