Q. Dear Goddess: A man complained to me that I had my phone on the table during our first date. I always have my phone on the table–what’s his problem? A. Dear Earth Girl: His problem is that it’s rude to plant your phone on the table as a matter of course. If you’ve ever been with a man …
Q. Dear Goddess: My lover has been talking a lot about wanting more “space.” When I ask him what he means, he can’t explain it and just gets cranky. Does he know what he means? A. Dear Earth girl: Yes, he knows just what he means. He can’t explain it because he doesn’t want to …
Q. Dear Goddess: My new boyfriend, who is driving me crazy, tells me he has Borderline Personality Disorder. What is it, and do I want to stay with him? A. No, dearest earth girl, I don’t think you do. Borderlines are almost impossible to have relationships with over time, and the fact that you say your …
Today is International Man Day. Founders (as reported this morning on “Good Morning America”) say it’s time for men to “reclaim their crown.” Did men ever lose it? Are women not still honoring men by working to please them; to ensure connection with them? Are women not still helping men become not only …
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 …
