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Feel like you're trying to decipher some sort of code when you're reading the boards? It's true, RGs love their acronyms. Here's a list of the more common acronyms we use. If I've missed any, let me know.
BC - Bootcamp, a style of following The Rules to the letter
BF - Boyfriend also GF - Girlfriend
BOB - Battery Operated Boyfriend, see IDTIE
CP - CommitmentPhobe
CS - Community Standards, our board rules
CUAO - Creature Unlike Any Other, a term coined in the Rules books.
CZ - Call Zero, the first telephone call from an online suitor before you meet
D1, D2, D3 - Date one, two, or three
DZ - Date Zero, the first time you meet an online suitor
E&S - Ellen and Sherrie, the authors of the Rules Books
FB - Fuck Buddy
GFN - Good For Now, often used to describe a girl a man is dating for fun or convenience, not marriage
GTID - Getting To I Do, a book by Patricia Allen
HIC - Hottie In Chief, a nickname for George W. Bush who some of our girls have a Fantasy Relationship with
IDTIE - I Don't Think I'll Ever (have sex again, at least not at this rate)
ILY - I Love You
IMHO - In My Humble Opinion, also IMO<
L&B - Light and Breezy
LD - Long Distance also LDR - Long Distance Relationship
LOL - Laughing Out Loud
MIA - Missing In Action
MVOAD - Mars and Venus On A Date, a book by John Gray
OLD - On Line Dating
PF - Pathfinder, the home of the old Rules Boards
PBT - Pretzel Brain Twist, when you twist your brain into a pretzel thinking about some guy
RG - Rules Girl
ROFL - Rolling On Floor Laughing
ROTFLMAO - Rolling On The Floor Laughing My Ass Off
TOS - Terms of Service
TOTLA - The Technique of the Love Affair, a revived book from early 20th century by a "gentlewoman" or Doris Langley Moore, edited by Norrie Epstein
TR - The Rules, also LR - Las Reglas
TSW - The Surrendered Wife, also TSS - the Surrendered Single, books by Laura Doyle
TW - Time Warner, Time Inc, owner of Pathfinder, the home of the old Rules boards
WUMTHS - Waiting Until Marriage To Have Sex, also WUMTHI - Waiting Until Marriage To Have Intercourse, WUETHS - Waiting Until Engagement to Have Sex