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Dating Disasters: Trying to be someone you are not

By • Mar 10th, 2010 • Category: Dating

Ever watched the show “Blind Date” and found yourself yelling at the screen pointing out all the wrong things the fools on the show are doing? Ever sit there and analyze the entire episode from start to finish? Well, so have I. And in that spirit, I have decided to write an analysis of various [...]



Mailbag: My wife and I aren’t getting along but she wants a baby!

By • Mar 5th, 2010 • Category: Reader Mailbag

Q: My wife has been very distant for about a month now. I’ve discussed it with her and she explains that it’s due to the different careers we are both headed for. Our careers are possibly going to cause us to separate for months at a time. She says it concerns her and now we [...]



Mailbag: She used to treat me as a boyfriend, but now we are merely platonic friends

By • Feb 26th, 2010 • Category: Reader Mailbag

Q: I was very close to a female friend of mine. She used to treat me as her boyfriend. Due to some misunderstanding, she now feels I am a platonic friend. I thought I had cleared it up out in the open, but she still feels the pinch of it. Actually she is now feeling [...]



Sometimes success is knowing when to cut your losses

By • Feb 22nd, 2010 • Category: Dating

I often get questions from people who have found themselves trying to save relationships that have gone awry. Often it’s a case where one individual isn’t getting everything that they are seeking in a relationship and they end up banging their head up against the wall constantly trying to change the other person to be [...]



What to do if your partner makes vacation plans without you

By • Feb 16th, 2010 • Category: For Couples

Situation: The person you have been dating for 1.5 years is organizing a “Girls Only” (or substitute “Boys Only”) trip to an exotic land, and obviously since you are a member of the opposite sex, you are not invited. What do you do? Answer: If you are in a committed relationship, i.e. one that has [...]



A diatribe about fake pick up gurus

By • Feb 8th, 2010 • Category: For Men

I’m sure a lot of guys reading this site are familiar with what’s called the “pick up” community. Basically this is an informal scene, mostly organized over the net of “experienced” guys (i.e. experienced with women) instructing less experienced guys how to pick up and have sex with the hottest models on the planet, but [...]



Mailbag: Help, I just can’t move on!

By • Feb 2nd, 2010 • Category: Reader Mailbag

Q: I have been in a relationship for almost a year. To give you a little background, we met and shortly after we started dating, and shortly after that she moved in with me. That was probably 8 or 9 months ago. Now my problem is that for the past couple of months I have [...]



Does online dating work?

By • Jan 19th, 2010 • Category: Dating

Recently I had a few questions asking whether it was worthwhile to open up an online dating account. Is it possible to meet some decent people or is it all just a scam and waste of time and money? Personally, I have experimented with online sites a bit and honestly, it’s a mixed bag and [...]



Gift giving- it’s all about the intent, not the expense

By • Jan 15th, 2010 • Category: Dating

We just came out of the holiday time of year, where unless you are a hermit living in a cave somewhere, there is probably someone to whom you had to give a gift. Coupled with a terrible economy, it might be tough to find a very nice gift that doesn’t cost a lot, especially if [...]



Power and Relationships

By • Jan 13th, 2010 • Category: For Couples

One of the strongest undercurrents in any relationship, whether it is personal, familial, social, or systemic is the interplay of power and control within that relationship. Many people instinctively think about such words as compromise, sharing, and understanding when thinking about what comprises a good relationship, and they would be absolutely right, but somehow the [...]