Two friends discuss relationships and other mysteries of life.
Posted in dating drama, gender differences, men, parenting, relationships, single parent dating, women on Mar 9th, 2012
#1 Pure laziness.
When it comes to doing things the easy way, men are highly skilled experts. Dating a woman who already has small children is the TV dinner version the American dream. Men don’t want to spend 24 hours simmering a pot roast when Swanson makes a “Hungry-Man” meal that’s ready in minutes. [...]
Posted in gender differences, men, women on Mar 1st, 2011
I often hear men say that women want to “have it both ways”. By this, they usually mean that women want to be treated as equals, but don’t want to pull their own weight. Until recently, that assertion made me more than a little angry; I’d just never seen any evidence that it was true.
When [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, dating drama, gender differences, men on Dec 15th, 2010
A few months ago, a friend at work sent me a link to a blog post called “Does This Law Degree Make My Ass Look Fat?” In a nutshell, the author suggested that men really don’t want to date attractive, successful women who have it all together and are self-sufficient. They require, in her words, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, men, relationships, women on Nov 8th, 2010
Mike’s post about losing your identity in a relationship (or defining yourself as a person looking for a relationship) brought to mind something I wouldn’t have previously connected to adult dating relationships. As my daughter made her way through middle school, I was repeatedly dismayed by the amount of time and energy that teenage girls [...]
Posted in men, relationships, women on Aug 13th, 2010
One thing I like about Mike’s latest post is that he unwittingly concedes my point on an earlier issue. I love when that happens, and am always vigilant for inadvertant concessions. Some time ago, I wrote that there was no such thing as the “friend zone“. By that I meant that all of the efforts [...]
Posted in dating drama, friend zone, men on Apr 4th, 2010
We’ve been getting comments from men asking for advice on avoiding the “friend zone”, and I’ve got good news for them. You’re not doing anything wrong. There’s no such thing as the “friend zone”. At least, not in the sense that men seem to dread it, as a big black hole waiting to swallow up [...]
Posted in dating drama, men, relationships, women on Feb 23rd, 2010
Don’t get me wrong. I like womanizers. Of course, most women enjoy them in the moment–if we didn’t, they wouldn’t be so successful. Hell, we wouldn’t have a name for them. But the tide turns. Womanizers don’t stay. And then a lot of women get angry that the man hasn’t kept all those promises he [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, men, relationships, women on Feb 18th, 2010
What I didn’t know was that full-grown adults–not college kids in their early twenties with one foot in their parents’ homes but thirty-something professionals with careers and condos and supposed lives of their own–were still looking to their friends to hold up numerical scores while their dates “performed”.
Posted in gender differences, men on Feb 15th, 2010
Tiffany’s post about the gender differences playing a role in single parenting reminded me of what I admit is obviously lacking in raising my daughter, first hand experience. I grew up having three older sisters, a mother and…later in life… I had a wife for nine years. I knew from listening what it [...]
Posted in men, relationships on Feb 14th, 2010
Men seem to see competition everywhere. Maybe it’s in their genes; maybe on some deep, subconscious level they’re always barefoot and sweaty in an amphitheater somewhere hoping their chain mail holds out.
But the reality is that to be in competition with someone, you have to be chasing the same goal–and that’s something men seem [...]
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