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As of 7:30pm last night I did not have a blog post for today. The weekend was busy (culminating in the second, successful SUNDAY NIGHT SEX TALKS!), and I spent yesterday morning attempting to finish the feature I’ve been working on since – oh – July. Then the blog gods shone down on me and plopped the Latin American Patti Stanger down next to me …
I’m going to keep this short and sweet because I’m mortified that I’m even writing it in the first place. I now understand why people use pet names. For the past 28 years (I’m counting them all because I believe that even as an infant I abhorred their use) I have been adamantly against pet names. I never used one, never had one, never met …
Guys – I feel like we need to have a little sit down. I’ve noticed by your Facebook posts/Tumblr updates/Tweets that you are pretty peeved at Kim Kardashian for divorce-bombing Chris Humphries a mere 72 days after their fairy tale wedding. You’re saying things like, “how dare she!” and, “her career is done,” and, “reality TV has gone too far.” I even saw a few …
(This blog post may-or-may-not have been inspired by a “Dear Abby” I read in the Teen Vogue I may-or-may-not subscribe to…) I used to do the whole “keep-your-real-feelings-for-the-guy-a-secret” thing. In the early stages of dating, I’d walking on egg shells about my desire to see him three times a week and talk to him every day in between. If things got a little more serious, …
Three years ago I went to the dentist in NYC and got completely unsolicited relationship advice that I posted here on this blog. Last week it happened again. Different city. Different dentist. Same barrage of advice on dating, relationships, marriage and children that I by no means requested. This time Dr. West Coast peppered in some general thoughts on both pop culture, history and philosophy. …
There’s been a lot of where-have-all-the-good-people-to-date-gone? talk around and about me as of late. Frankly I’m not sure where they are now, and I’m not sure I knew where they were before. What I do know is that people will drive themselves up a wall trying to figure out what they should be doing differently to find them. I know this because I was people. …
No, not me (yet…), but please enjoy this story from my great friend John who recently went through this whole ordeal in a shall-we-say “magical” manor… Jessie and I were emailing back and forth about my recent trip to Florida and I said: “You know where is NOT a very good place for your parents to meet your significant other’s parents for the first time? …
Every so often someone (but usually The Atlantic) features a massive article about the state of dating, relationships and marriage. A few years ago it was that now famous piece about settling (Marry Him! The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough). Today they’ve shifted the pendulum to the opposite side with a piece from Kate Bolick called All The Single Ladies. This one is …
A lot of people have a real problem with the new Anna Faris movie WHAT’S YOUR NUMBER?. Quick movie synopsis so this blog post makes sense: Anna Faris plays a single woman named Ally Darling who is searching for love. Ally Darling reads an article in a magazine which says that women who sleep with an excess of 20 men significantly decrease their changes of …
My good friend Michelle observed a very specific change in the way people treated her after she got married – two specific groups of people, to be precise. Michelle is a 30-year-old successful professional both well-liked and well-respected in her industry. She dated her now husband for approximately 2 years prior to their wedding day. Her now husband is an equally well liked/respected member of …