Category Archives: Love & Romance

“But Why Are You With THEM?!”

Hello Faithful Readers, and welcome to yet another fun-filled column at Gothic Charm School. This month the subject is something that the Lady of the Manners and her social circle have been having to struggle with recently themselves – just how DOES one handle the delicate situation when a dear friend is romantically involved with someone that one detests?
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Mobbing the Newly Single, Club Behaviour, and Holiday Gift Guide

Hello Faithful Readers, and welcome to the December edition of Gothic Charm School. This month, the Lady of the Manners is presenting you with a sort of hodgepodge column; a couple of different questions to be answered, a quick restating of one of the Lady of the Manners’ pet peeves, and then! A handy Holiday Gift Guide for all of you to try to get your nearest and dearest to read, in the hopes that the enticingly-wrapped box you receive isn’t filled with a pastel green fuzzy sweater. Clip and Save! (Well, more like Copy, Paste, Print, and Save, but you get the idea.) Continue reading

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Public Displays of Unbridled Passion

Hello, Faithful Readers, and welcome to the November rantings . . . er, musings at Gothic Charm School. The very first thing the Lady of the Manners wants to do is thank ALL of you, every single one, for being a Faithful Reader of her column. The Lady of the Manners used that handy “Top 5” link on the Gothic.Net home page and was pleasantly shocked to discover that she WAS in the Top 5. So thank you, all of you.

Dear Gothic Charm School,
Two of my friends, who I’ve known for about five and ten years respectively, got together eighteen months ago. Separately they are the same delightful people they always were. Together, they are the Two-Headed Couple Beast From Hell. Continue reading

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Breaking Up Isn’t Hard To Do

Hello Faithful Readers, and welcome to August’s edition of Gothic Charm School. This month, the Lady of the Manners is going to address a problem that seems to be happening more and more these days ”” romantic break-ups. Now before you think the Lady of the Manners is poaching on Miss Lonely Hearts’ territory, rest assured that the Lady of the Manners isn’t going to try and give all of you advice on how to heal your lovelorn heart. Nope, not even going to try. Instead the Lady of the Manners is going to expound upon the etiquette of break-ups; specifically, how to gracefully deal with a break-up in this digital age. Continue reading

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Dealing With Crushes

Helllloooooo, Faithful Readers, and welcome to the May edition of Gothic Charm School. May”¦May”¦what does that mean? Just a moment, the Lady of the Manners had a note about this around here somewhere, under the stack of fashion magazines”¦

Ah yes. May = Spring, which = high spirits, people getting crushes on other people, and just about everyone wandering around in a constant state of being twitterpated. Continue reading

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Romantic Gestures

Greetings, Faithful Readers, and welcome to the February installment of Gothic Charm School. You know what February means, don’t you? The annual column about love and romance, you silly things! Continue reading

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Mixed Relationships ”” can goths and non-goths find True Love?

Hello, Faithful Readers, and welcome to the latest batch of advice. This month the Lady of the Manners going to tackle a pair of omnipresent questions- can a goth find happiness and True Love with a non-goth? And should a non-goth try to cross over to gain the approval of the object of their affection? An example of that, from one of you out there in the cybernetic wilderness: Continue reading

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Just in Time for Valentine’s Day

Ah, romance. All goths are romantics, even if they deny it vehemently. There is something about the standard bits of the goth aesthetic (candlelight, roses, decadent food, alcohol, or clothing, passionate declarations or literature) that naturally go with romance.

Then why does the majority of the subculture profess to take a cynical view of the whole dating, love, & romance whirl? Because goths are all idealistic romantics at heart, and either don’t want to be ridiculed, or have been hurt too often ”¦ Continue reading

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