You Can’t Erase A Relationship With One Click of The Delete Button

My friend’s fiancée announced that she had secured her own new apartment. Even more final to him, she had actually gone ahead and changed their relationship status on her page from “engaged” to single. Though he couldn’t verbalize it, I knew what he was feeling: crushed—and relieved. “I guess I have to get on board [...]

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Talk To Me: Is He Sweet or Just Another Slick Willy?

Tonight we’re starting something a little new called TALK TO ME, where I set up a scenario from dating, taken from my own experiences or someone else’s that I find intriguing, and YOU tell me what you think in the comments. Let’s have a conversation about it. Scenario: A highly educated and very attractive male [...]

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Forget Him—Forgive Yourself

Being on friendly terms with the ex girlfriend, now one of the best friends, of the guy you are dating can be both a blessing and a curse. You wind up getting more insight about this person you think you know fairly well. It can be helpful when you are worrying you’re overreacting about an [...]

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Are You Settling Into Love For Life Or Just Settling?

In a recent episode of The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert discussed his hesitancy to support Mitt Romney as his choice for a Republican president candidate. He cleverly compared this decision to a person having to figure out if he is settling for love, which surprisingly struck a cord with me as  my former FWB (FFWB) [...]

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‘Twas A Bittersweet—More Sweet than Bitter, Bitter Than Sweet—Year

For me, 2011 was the year of truly living SingleInMy30s. At age 33, it was in fact the first time in my 30s I was not involved in some exclusive—usually long-term—relationship for the vast majority of the year. The V-Man and I finally ended our second attempt at being together a couple months into the [...]

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