About the Author

Hello. I'm Jude, 23 years old, and I recently graduated from a college in the Midwest. If you're wondering about what qualifies me to give advice, I can point to nothing expect my experience giving advice. Please understand that I am not a professional and if you need serious help you are in the wrong place.

While a junior in high school, I made and edited a website, Teen Romance Hotline, that specialized in love advice "by teens for teens." The project was a success, earning me many e-mails from satisfied visitors, but in my senior year of high school, I had too much trouble with my own love life and I also became too busy to make any updates. During this time, the website closed.

In college, I was also too busy. But now that I've graduated, I find I have some free time, and as I was surveying the web, I realized that the love advice scene has not improved. Countless advice sites are still telling people there are easy, fast, proven ways to get the one you want, and people aren't encouraging each other to take a long-term view and think through situations.

I'm not a fan of quick fixes. I think people need to look to the future when making decisions. Now, I'm not a big fan of planning, because there's too much in life that can happen too fast, and some days may never come. But I do believe that thinking through the possibilities helps. And searching your heart-- which can take lots of time, and hurt significantly-- is preferable to "living in the fast lane," never having any time to recognize-- or appreciate-- the time you're having.

Too many times, people get involved in relationships because they think they "have to"-- that they'll be an outcast, or lonely if they don't. But we forget that relationships are also full of problems-- and sometimes, it's not worth it.

Through this website, I hope to help guide people to a deeper understanding of themselves, and of life. This understanding can only come from careful thought and struggle-- it isn't easy. But as Socrates said, "The unexamined life is not worth living."

What can a philosopher who lived 2000 years ago teach us today? Quite a lot. First, we have to think-- how could someone's words have survived more than 2000 years? Obviously, these words must have been very important to many people, and I think they can be important to you as well.

About the Website

The website has a lot of text, but I hope that most of it is useful to you. The site doesn't look great, but that's because I think it's more important to spend time giving people good advice than making the pages look good. Of course, if you disagree, you're welcome to help me improve the look and feel. Just send me a message through the contact form.