Life, Love and Online Dating

Are the major cosmetic companies telling women that it’s okay to be dishonest as long as you look good while you’re doing it?

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#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. [...]

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It’s Valentine’s Day, and that means a lot of people who rarely give any thought to romance are buying candy and flowers and planning candlelight dinners or romantic getaways.  It also means that a bunch of men are on autopilot:  men who are scrambling to fit the romantic mold for one day of the year, [...]

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When you’ve been married for a long time, a lot changes.  Men and women alike talk about being “back out there” and how different the world of single adults is than it was during their first times around.  For those of us who follow up the end of those long relationships with years of focus [...]

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Recently, Mike wrote about Lori Gottleib’s Marry Him and the theory that young women are so afraid of missing out on “the perfect man” that they reject a lot of men for very petty reasons (which they’ll soon live to regret).  I’ve written about my take on Gottleib’s book before, but as I read Mike’s [...]

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In the book  Marry Him, Lori Gottlieb outlines her theory on why women in their 20’s and 30’s think they’re too good for most men.  Actually, her claim is that many women feel that there’s something wrong with the men they date that makes them not good enough to marry.  Women tend to be too picky [...]

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I’m not saying getting stabbed is hot. No, really. I’m not.
It’s all in why you get stabbed and how you handle it afterward.
You may or may not have heard that earlier this week, Sean Bean was in a bar with a Playboy model approximately 30 years his junior when someone made an inappropriate comment to [...]

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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 [...]

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Keep him waiting: Don’t be ready when he shows up to take you out to dinner, it makes you seem desperate. Besides, you want to give him a realistic idea of what it will be like to be married to you. Take control early on and show him that it actually is all [...]

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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 [...]

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