
Considering opening up your life up to meet new people - for love, friendship or even just as a paddleball or bridge partner? Yeah, it's an exhausting investment of time, energy and potentially emotion. Do you have to? Nope. We all have plenty of reasons to just stay inside. But if you are considering it, you want it to be worth the hassle. Know that I've been out doing just this - making new friends, dating, situationships, the whole thing - and in this new periodic series I share my ongoing list of eclectic and highly idiosyncratic red flags that signal "sooner or later, this person is going to become very. very. annoying." Don't let me derail you on your road to a fuller life! But don't say I didn't warn you.

Got some Red Flags of your own for people who no doubt will become annoying friends or lovers? I'd love to hear them at Dish@PrimeCrush.com.

The Crush Letter
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