Posted in dating drama, parenting, romance on Jun 4th, 2011
Adolescence is that wonderful time when we are graced with the ability to have emotions. We move beyond accepting simple “yes or no” answers and start to ask “why” and consider how those answers make us feel. Everything is driven (quite powerfully) by an emotion. It can’t simply be that we admire [...]
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Posted in romance on Apr 7th, 2011
Last night I was kicking it old school and watching an 80’s classic Some Kind of Wonderful.
In this film, Keith Nelson played by Eric Stoltz has a crush on Amanda Jones played by Lea Thompson. He manages to get her to go out with him. On their first date, he takes her [...]
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Posted in romance on Sep 10th, 2010
The other day I was reading a discussion on BlogCatalog (where Mike and I first hooked up) about memorable or “best” kisses. Since I only had a dozen or so more pressing things I should have been thinking about, I stopped to try to come up with an answer–and my conclusion surprised me.
To be honest, [...]
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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 [...]
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