Recent content by Ming on Mongo

Well there you have it, feeling "entitled", even though you already know that "most people aren't that comfortable". That's what "boundaries" (and the folks who ignore them) are all about. Do you appreciate it when others find excuses to ignore your boundaries?

Dunno, but I don't see how anyone's "entitled" to staring into someone's eyes to get a "real" look, anymore than they are to take a peek inside the windows of our home. Folks have a right to what they care to reveal, and if they choose not to, it ain't always because of "duplicity". In fact it...

Well, if it makes any difference, anthropologists have long recognized that among most primate species (of which we are one), direct eye contact is usually considered an "invitation" to combat, especially with males. And not surprisingly in prison "culture", it's the same thing. So even if we...

That's a very interesting article and graphs. Dunno about the the connection between politics and MBTI, but have long thought there seems to be a strong relationship between clinical "Narcissism", and the more ideological and "dogmatic" extremist political types (both Right and left). It would...

Being of the "senior" persuasion, with a fair amount of experience re: "relationships" along the way, seems to me that the whole subject of "independence" vs "intimacy" seldom gets enough attention. Instead folks usually focus on the attraction, "chemistry", mutual interests, etc., always...