We’ve made it to part three of the “Destructive Relationship Patterns to Avoid” series and the epic deep dive into all my past relationships! In part one we discussed dating anxiety. In part two we talked about the savior…
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1. They show you in the way that they trigger a tiny gut reaction that tells you you can’t trust them. It’s there, you can feel it in your body, even if it’s faint. That feeling tugs at you,…
Dating is hard. Dating is extra hard when you're attracted to douche bags. Clo Bare is no exception, but she's figuring out why her attraction to d-bags beats out her desire to date the nice guys.…
Going through trauma therapy is a lot harder than I anticipated. Dating while going through trauma therapy is impossible. I'm learning the ways in which I am the problem, and discovering how to overcome and eradicate the barriers I've…
Drunk dialing happens. It's the worst, and it's even worse when the object of our calls is our ex. Recently I drunk dialed my ex-abuser, and this is how I got over the shame associated with it.…
Dating is hard, that's no secret. Online dating is even more difficult when you have trust issues and baggege to work through. Clo Bare talks online dating.…
In my 28-years of being alive and being single through a solid chunk of it, I’ve had the pleasure of dating a variety of dudes. I’ve dated the d-bags. Dated some good guys. I’ve dated some great guys but…
I’ve been dating someone for a little while now, and things are going well. Which is weird. I’m constantly suspicious of his niceness and simple “what-you-see-is-what-you-get” personality. Despite everything going pretty dang great, there’s still a paranoid part of…
We’ve made it to part six of the “Destructive Relationship Patterns to Avoid” series and the Clo Bare’s history of all relationships extravaganza! In this post we’ll talk about how to start dating again after trauma, learning how to…
Scenario 1: “Please keep me from drinking.” I dated a man suffering from PTSD who told me I had to prevent him from drinking or doing drugs at all costs. How’d that work out? Not well. He’d hate me…
We all have a love wish list, a checklist of deal breakers and deal makers we take with us when we go out on a first or second date. But do our love lists work? Clo Bare decided to…