Mandy Stadtmiller

I go into a defensive mode where I am afraid of being broken.

Realize you’ll be dead soon, nothing matters and you might as well enjoy the life that you have — or even the day that you have right in this moment. (I realize this does not abbreviate quite as neatly as YOLO.)

Sure, I appreciate the twenty-somethings (even had one recently call me on “ageist” because I didn’t want to date them and said so on my OKCupid profile), but at the wizened age of 37, I’ve just straight-up outgrown playing pool, fratty jokes and helping someone as they try to come into their own in life.

2. All of their pictures are of with cropped-out or blurred ladies.

Red Flag #2: He makes you ask him out.

Your Twitter shows if you are corny and lame and just don’t get it. Also: Your Twitter is your life.