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|title=He Texted: The Ultimate Guide to Decoding Guys

|author=Lisa Winning and Carrie Henderson-McDermott

|publisher=Century

|date=April 2014

|summary=Boys are tricky. This book helps to explain them, and how to spot your players from your platonics.

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Let me tell you in a nutshell the story of how I met the Boy. It involved an internet dating site followed by some online stalking. I tried and failed to find him on Facebook so looked him up on Companies’ House instead (the perks of dating a director). We didn’t text much before we met up, in fact his first message to me was a rather bland one to tell me he was just getting off the tram and heading to the venue of our first date, and since I flew to Amsterdam the next day I then went out of contact for almost a week. We weren't really playing by the rules, if such rules exist. That was 2012. Fast forward to now, and we share everything from a home to our hobbies (though I’m pretty sure I ‘won’ that one, since I now get to go on exotic snowboarding holidays while he is allowed to spend long weekends in the audience at cheerleading competitions resolutely not looking at any scantily clad pretty young things except the one he lives with). I tell you this in part to emulate the smug (quasi) marrieds of [[:Category:Helen Fielding|Helen Fielding]] characters but also to illustrate that it would seem as far as I need to, I can decode guys, or this guy at any rate. So I suppose, I didn’t pick up this book for tips, I picked it up for validation.