What’s the one kind of date where you don’t go Dutch, ever? What’s the one kind of date where glamour is considered crucial? What’s the one kind of date that’s losing steam faster than you can say “Bye Bye 401 K.”? Yes, my lovely unfaithful earth lovers, it’s the extramarital date. For better or worse, …
Here’s one small but typical example of what happens to a man and a woman on a lovely date when she talks about her feelings. And I don’t even mean feelings about the relationship; just any feelings at all. I call it the Pizza Parlor Illustration of Communication Breakdown. A couple walk into a pizza place-a little dive they’ve …
I’ve been talking to women about sex and want to share three sex lies we all seem, at one point or another, to tell ourselves. They each have to do with some imagined “shoulds.” The first is that there are couples out there who are having perfect sex, and they’re having it at perfectly …
Loneliness: The word fills us with dread. I know people who go out on dates every night, just to be with someone, anyone-even though they hate dating and aren’t looking for a long-term love. I know people who stay in terrible relationships simply because they provide SOME interaction, albeit mostly negative interaction. We will …
Q. We used to talk; now, it feels like so much work on my part. Why? A. Alas, my dear earth lovers, commitment can be tough on conversation. “Did you get the car fixed?” replaces “I have this neat poem I read that I want to read to you,” and “What did you tell the …
Oh heaven’s, not again. “Wife Was Leaving Man Who Killed 5 Children,” the headline says. Yes, yes, that’s what it always says. The woman, after years of abuse, decides to get the hell out. And then the man shoots her (usually) and/or their children. This time, this week, in Graham, Washington, it was the man’s children and …
Zera is a goddess who fell in love with a gorgeous and glamorous god, Zero (not their real names). Zera, try as she might, felt isolated from this god who was so worshipped by other goddesses and envied by other gods. Dazzling as he was, though, Zero couldn’t and wouldn’t connect with his lover. …
I don’t like to brag too often, but the forthcoming nuptials announced yesterday in The New York Times Style Section between blogging-star Ann Althouse and Laurence Meade, the man who wooed and won her through his comments on her site, happened because of me. (Commoner Captures Princess, Blog Version) You see, some time ago …
Q: Why do I so hate those big, sloppy kisses men seem to like? Is it me? A. No. There’s more going on in that kiss than you know. And you’re right: Men, who scientists say like bigger, wetter kisses with more tongue involvement than women do, may actually be transferring testosterone to their would-be lovers in those wet kisses, in order …
I woke up this morning and it was snowing–your Love Goddess is in Colorado, not in the heavens (although it is truly heavenly here). And I thought this was a perfect time to share a poem by Carbondale, Colorado poet Karen Jane Glenn. Karen, who has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has read her work …
