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Kids love my boyfriend but…
Q: Since my divorce three years ago, I’ve often been in the company (and, occasionally, the bed) of an old and dear friend, Mike, who’s …
The Online Flasher
Yesterday I talked about one kind of online nightmare: The bully. Today's potential-date time-waster is the Online Flasher: the man who exposes his emotions too …
The Online Bully
I talk a lot about trusting your instincts, and that goes doubly when you're dating online. When that picture of him pops up–the swimming …
EXHAUSTED? MAYBE IT'S TIME TO LEAVE!
When Kim found out that Peter, her lover of six months, was sleeping with another woman, she threw up. In fact, she couldn’t stop …
The Late, Late Date
I'm hearing a lot about lateness of late–meeting a date at a restaurant, often early in a romance, and finding yourself alone….for a half hour or …
Keeping it moist
Q: I’m divorced, dating a nice guy, and totally freaked. (I dated one man in my life: my husband!) My heart is willing but my …
On Obsessing (with Your Man)
Today's New York Times has a piece on the inordinate amount of talking young girls do, particularly about their problems. Researchers are mixed in their …
Gut Feelings
I'm asked by a woman who read an earlier blog of mine and asks, "Okay, Goddess, so how do I learn to separate the guy who …
Telling teenagers about your sex life
Q: My boyfriend and I both have teenagers who don’t know we’re having sex. My shrink says, “Tell them.” My boyfriend’s shrink says, “Tell them …
The Myth of the Unambivalent Lover
Today, a rainy Satruday, brought to mind another Love Myth. This one came to me because one of the people who responded to my blog called himself …