“Plenty of casual daters will throw you off with maddening phrases like...” — Matthew Hussey Quote

“Plenty of casual daters will throw you off with maddening phrases like 'I'm just enjoying having fun with you.' This doesn't make them a bad person, but it's your call now how to respond. Just don't assume 'having fun' or any such cliche means they're going to suddenly decide they want a relationship next week.”

“The key to asking someone out is to not really ask. In other words, don't feel your sentence needs to end with a question mark.”

“Men feel safe and more open when they know that the woman they're talking to approves of their passion for a particular band/book/cereal.”

“When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience.”

“Justin Timberlake is one of our style icons - he does both formal and casual perfectly.”

“My nightmare of nightmares is being overdressed for a casual event - I've done it! You have to have a real sense of what you want to communicate.”