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10 Dating Rules for 2016

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Hey y’all! I just wrote a post on our Xconvo discussion about the dating game in 2016… such a fun discussion! You can imagine how lively it got 🙂 What are your expectations, deal breakers, social media, who should pay on the date, etc. We’re dropping the full video next week Thursday 2.25.16, but check out our vlog on the rules we came up with in the meantime!

(If you don’t know about Xconvos, you’re missing out! It’s a web-based series of real discussions on various social topics from a black Millennial perspective. We are changing the conversation through these solution focused discussions. I think you’ll enjoy them, check em out!)

Now, for le dating game.. here are the first five rules we came up with:
 
1.    Self evaluate: know yourself, know your worth. Are you secure in who you are? Know your expectations, needs and limits in a relationship and from your significant other. We all want a perfect relationship, but perfect is relative. Everything you expect in your significant other should also be attributes you have.

2.    Come complete, she/he will not complete you. A husband/wife will complete you, but also won’t complete you. Understand that you have value as an individual. Don’t enter a relationship to fill a void or just because you’re lonely. Dating is much deeper than that. Yes, you may temporarily feel love and companionship, but if you’re in a relationship and looking for every bit of your happiness and fulfillment in the other person, you may lose it quicker than you found it.

3.    Do your stalking due diligence. Social media is your best friend… sometimes lol (Check out the Xconvos dropping later this week for a different perspective on this!)

4.    Whoever initiates the date, expect to pay. Yep, ladies too. If you ask a guy out on a date, you should expect to pay. Not saying that you will pay, but you should go with the expectation of paying. “It’s 2016, ladies gotta step up.” I’m hearing this a lot these days. Question for y’all, should ladies be asking men out on dates? I’m not a fan haha, but maybe I’m a bit more traditional in a few ways. Ladies, am I wrong? If you have asked a man out before, how’d it go?

5.    Don’t waste time! Pretty self-explanatory. Ain’t nobody got time for games. #dontwastehistime #dontwastehertime

Go read the rest of the rules on the Alibi X blog, The Digital Conscious! I think number 10 is my favorite. Let me know what you think! Anything you would add?

Hope you enjoy 🙂

❤

NFL NCAA “Rule Breaking”

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I am currently annoyed frustrated shocked w/ this stuff…I was driving home from dropping my sis off at the airport while listening to some radio station discussing the NFL/NCAA rules, Tyrelle Pryor, etc. I wanted to call into the radio show so badly but I couldn’t get the number while I was driving haha

So, here’s the (most recent) issue…Terrelle Pryor, a former Ohio State football player, Pryor was suspended for the first five games of the 2011 NFL regular season for selling memorabilia in exchange for cash and “improper benefits.” The reasoning behind the suspension was that “Pryor had accepted at the end of the 2010 college football season a suspension for the first five games of the 2011 season for violating NCAA rules”, and that he had subsequently “undermined the integrity of the eligibility rules for the NFL Draft” by “failing to cooperate with the NCAA” on their investigation into the OSU football program.

Hellooo..that’s like saying I finished at one job, got hired at another, but my new job is punishing me for something I did at my previous job. Does that make sense?

People are saying they (athletes) break the rules, they should pay the price. Yeah, I think there should be consequences for some stuff and I think these athletes should be more careful, it’s not right to break the contract (not everything you’re offered is gold). But, I also think we should be questioning the rules…why not change the rules? Ethics? Morals? I think Roger Goodell and the NCAA board are the ones we should be looking at. These athletes give their heart and soul to this game. They bring in hundreds of thousands of dollars for their teams and schools. No one ever talks about that. Or, how in addition to their duties on and off the field, these guys do community service and charity work and are students like the rest of their classmates. They have families, they sacrifice vacations and holidays.  It’s hard work and hard earned respect that they should get. Why don’t they have the freedom to do what they want with a ring, or a jersey (that they worked for), or accepting a car for transportation? No biggie I don’t think…what if they need that extra help? We all know college student days weren’t the most balling of days, right? A scholarship is good but maybe not enough.

I could go on, but I’m lateee. I should be on the road to Austin to see my baby niece. Road trippin! She’s presh 🙂

Anywayyy, I really want to hear your thoughts, what you feel..am I wrong? Comment away!

Peace and love ❤

-Rinny