What Are Your Choices When Someone You Care for Disappoints You?

Stay.  Understand that they have shortcomings.  Forgive and move on. Leave.  Feel like they have disappointed you.  Decide to part ways so it doesn’t happen again, at least with this particular person. Change.  Work together on a solution together to prevent something like this from happening again. — Originally posted on Quora. Leonard Kim consults … Read more

Is It Possible for Your Love for Someone to Just Slowly Fade Away?

Love never just slowly fades away.  Something replaces it, or some action or event triggers us to change how we feel.  But as time goes by, the feelings don’t just slowly drift away.  They need to be replaced with other feelings, or they just continually stay there.  Haunting us, day after day, month after month, … Read more

Is There Such a Thing as Loving Someone Too Much?

Yes. It’s when you’re no longer with them and you can’t get them out of your mind, so you do whatever it takes to try to get them back, even though you’re spending year after year failing at the task. — Originally posted on Quora. Leonard Kim consults startups and writes books like The Etiquette … Read more

Is “You’re Not My Type” Code For “You’re Not Attractive Enough”?

Sometimes. Other times, I’ll meet an absolutely gorgeous girl. But she’ll be like, annoying. Extremely annoying. All she does is complain about this and that, basically to the point where her negativity drowns out her physical beauty. That is when I come to find that she is not my type. Would you want to wake … Read more

What Was the Most Rewarding Moment of Your Life?

This is a story that I’m embarrassed to share, as it is not something that I have done or accomplished myself. It isn’t even something I should feel rewarded about. Yet, for some reason, when I reflect through my life, this is the only moment that stands out. Quite frankly, I’m hesitant to even tell the story, … Read more

What’s My Social Status? Should I Date up or Down?

Someone on Quora had asked me: “I see many references to one’s social status, such as “date up” and “marry up,” etc. So, what’s my social status? I’m 33, white, single, healthy, I have a degree in CS and make $110K/yr. What’s the social status of this woman: 28, Chinese, single, healthy, worthless degree, $70K/yr. If we … Read more