Topic: flirting

Sometimes, I flirt and I don’t even realize it. I’ll be sitting at the long-bar, talking to a friend, or even on Twitter, and suddenly I’ll catch myself in a flirt. Whether I do it to relieve some tension, to have some lighthearted convo, or because I find the person attractive, it is rather hard to abstain from flirting on a daily basis. Claire Brosseau, 34, a Toronto-based comedian, found that her obsession with flirting, sex, and men was drawing the focus away from her goals in life, and actually increasing her sadness, rather than her happiness. So what’s a gal with a funny streak and a blog to do? Brosseau decided to go on a one-year “Manbbatical,” as she called it, in order to get her life, her priorities, and her sanity back on track. The rules were simple: no sex, no kissing, no texts, no dates, no hand-holding, no suggestive tweets (I would have broken that rule several times over), no getting smashed around handsome fellas, and she had to keep this up for 365 days. The girl’s got gumption! More »