Two friends discuss relationships and other mysteries of life.
Posted in Life, dating books, women on Dec 15th, 2011
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 [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, celebrities, women on Jun 15th, 2011
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 [...]
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 dating drama, romance, women on Dec 9th, 2010
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 [...]
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 Uncategorized, dating drama, relationships, women on Mar 21st, 2010
Recently, I entered into a bit of debate with my sister on my personal blog about the value of romantic delusions. Of course, “delusions” is my construction; she wasn’t actually arguing that delusions were valuable, but that what I termed “delusions” sometimes came true, if only for a moment. Even if girls who lived in [...]
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 dating services, relationships, women on Feb 19th, 2010
I’ve seen websites offering DVD’s that explain how to become a “player” and other sites offering stories and tips on how to pick up women. Isn’t this basically saying, “This is who you have to be to get this type of woman”? If you have to learn skills and techniques and study what [...]
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”.
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