Q. Dear Goddess: I’m sick to death of dating. It’s become a major pain, and a huge chore, and I’d rather do pretty much anything else in the world right now than go to Starbucks one more time to meet someone I’ve exchanged ten sane e-mails with only to find out he’s emphatically wrong for me. …
Q. Dear Love Goddess: Okay, you told me yesterday why someone might act weird if I were to get married, but I’m in the middle of a divorce, and my friends are really acting weird. How come? A. Dear Earth Girl: Well, that’s easy. Everyone feels, on some irrational level, that she might get infected; that …
Dear Goddess: I recently got married again after years of being single. I’m shocked by how many of my friend, even those who are also married, had weird reactions to my happiness-Is it possible they weren’t so happy about it at all? Dearest Earth Girl: No, I suspect they’re happy for you– But all …
I remember it well. It was in 2007, November, I think, when the company that produced The Today Sponge–that nifty, over-the-counter, buy-without-a-prescription, keep-in-your-bag-and-use-when-you-wish-in-your-own-body-and-not-on-his birth-control device —went bankrupt. Gone was the possibility of relying on yourself (and not on your prospective lover who might or might not have condoms with him) for birth control. Gone …
So many responses by e-mail to this last blog. WHY ARE BOYS SO THREATENED BY GIRLS?, you ask. WHY ARE MEN SO THREATENED BY WOMEN? Well, darling earth girls and women, we all know some of the reasons, and they’re deeply psychological. We’ll discuss those sometime, but for now, let’s look at what’s going on. …
Hundreds of years ago, when I was an athletic young goddess going out with the teenage head of the Pantheon Tennis Team, Jove stopped me at the heavenly court gates: “Let him win,” he whispered. “Not if I can beat him,” I said. “Beat him and you’ll lose him as both a …
“Dear Goddess: My work is thriving. But I’m finding that my work personality and my home personality are really different. I hate feeling like two people.” A. But, my darling earth child, you ARE two different people. A career is so much about control–of yourself and, if you have a staff, of others–and about repression …
Q. Dear Goddess, can a woman push a man into action (okay, I mean marriage) by issuing a demand? A. Ah, the Ultimatum. One of my favorite topics. Listen closely to this one, because the goddess knows her stuff. Women are not taught to think in terms of outright demands, of course, but rather in …
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A big smiley face, the familiar yellow one that many people sign off e-mails with, the Have- A- Happy-Day one, opens The New York Times’ Sunday Styles section’s story about the return of the Nice Guy in films and advertising. Paul Rudd stars as a sweet guy in the new comedy, “I Love You, …
Q: Dear Goddess: In this new economic climate, should men and women split checks on their dates? I want to go out, but I don’t have a lot of money–and don’t know if it’s fair to ask a guy to pick up the check. –Janie A: Ah, Janie, you’ve hit upon an issue that seems to be all …
