Love

This topic comes courtesy of an e-mail from reader Caitlin in an unknown city and state. Caitlin writes: “What is it with the allure of an older man? Is it the idea we younger girls have that older somehow means wise? (Even when the Red Flags are flyin’ high and all signs indicate that age does not equal wisdom). What’s the deal?”Truth be told, Caitlin, …

I used to take pride in the fact that I wasn’t a crazy, obsessive, nagging girlfriend. I was a go-with-the-flow girl. The kind that lets her boyfriend be who he is, live like he wants, dress as he pleases. I’d never remove a poster from a bedroom wall or criticize the way he cooks pasta or make him wear less baggy shorts that don’t have …

My friend/co-worker A and I had a little disagreement the other day. See, A was recently set up with a lady whom he found displeasing to his personal tastes. He used very colorful language to explain this which I am purposefully omitting from this blog post. The situation made A angry. He took the friends’ choice of set up as a personal offense. If this …

Here’s a little Passover post. Before delving into this topic based on things I have heard from several other people, not things I have made up in my own mind, let me make a million disclaimers. I do not necessarily believe this information to be true. The idea that there are non-Jewish girls who are only interested in dating Jewish guys is something I have …

The team over at The Frisky linked to an interested potential-truth recently published in New York mag . Apparently it’s what you hate in common, not what you like in common that’s a true indicator of how you’ll survive as a couple. A University of South Florida researcher (Jennifer Bosson) published findings in the Personal and Social Psychology Bulletin that basically say, “There’s something really …

People warned me about the L.A. dating scene long before I moved here: “It’s the absolute worst,” they said. “Everyone is just using everyone else to get ahead,” they said. “Plus it’s like high school here! The social circle is so small that you can’t hook up with anyone without is being total town news.” All valid complaints, but par for the course in the …

I’m back in action after two wildly successful performances of THE HOOK-UP CONVERSATIONS: L.A. edition and one wildly consuming 24-hour stomach bug, which by some grace of god came one day after the shows. Today’s topic is inspired by a monologue that was performed in both the NY and LA versions of the HUC’s by my good friend Chris Jacobs. It’s a comedic piece about …

I’m going to be completely honest. This whole thing started because upon venting about how I’m struggling to stay a-float with real work and blog work and freelance work and The Hook-up Conversations R said, “what can I do to help” and I jokingly said, “write tomorrow’s blog post.” “I thought you’d never ask,” he said. And so began what I assumed would be the …

Shelf girls (n) – from the Latin meaning girls who inhabit a space most commonly used to store things (i.e. books, games)The first term was dropped over yesterday’s sushi lunch with my friend Andrea. We were talking about some relationship-related issue when Andrea let me in on her shelf girl theory. There’s nothing I love more than a succinct categorization for a frustrating interpersonal phenomenon …