Rachel: Check Please!
Rachel's first rendezvous with an online date may have been promising, but her second left something to be desired...like manners.
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Mike: Out on a Limb
Before we went out, I had promised her the best date of her life. I had to let her know I wasn’t some schmuck like most guys.
Carrie - My Best Friend's Wedding
I just got back from my best friend's wedding. It was a breathtakingly beautiful day, mostly because the newlyweds were deeply, radiantly in love. Yet it's not always easy to "give away" your best friend, even to an amazing man. My cup runneth over with happiness for her. But I wondered. Would things be different now?
Josh - Deal Breaker #4 I thought I had a good grasp on what it was I was looking for in a relationship. In fact, I thought I had such a good grasp, that I convinced myself that 5 simple things would lead me to dating bliss. But as I started putting it all down on paper and examining them, I found that I still have some learning to do. The first one was easy, a no brainer. You have to have your own place. However, Deal Breaker #1 has also been the easiest one for me to ignore. It really doesn’t make any sense to come up with these things if I’m not going to commit to them. Then there was Deal Breaker #2. It was an easy concept to grasp. Let’s keep our friends when we’re dating. But no sooner had my fingers left the keyboard when I got to thinking about how much time I spend doing everything but spending time with anyone I’m dating. There’s always somewhere else to go and someone else to go with. It’s one friend after another, with no time for a relationship. These Deal Breakers were meant to help me start a relationship, not make it impossible.
Elizabeth: The Other Woman It’s 5 a.m. and The Graduate and I are sound asleep in his bed. We had a good night. We ate dinner on his patio and sat cross-legged on his couch as we played card games and got silly tipsy as we sang along to our favorite songs. I sang wildly out of tune, of course. We made a special playlist to commemorate the night—all of our mutually favorite songs to celebrate our first sleep-in date. (Yes, it’s saccharine sweet, cute-as-cupcakes annoying to anyone who loathes mushy-gushy dating stories. But I must admit, I loved it.) The Graduate and I have had plenty of sleepovers. But work, alarm clocks and the thought of having to wade through rush-hour traffic forced us out of each other’s beds earlier than we’d prefer. We were ready for the inaugural lazy Sunday. At 5:15, he rolled over and kissed my shoulder. I sighed and smiled. Then it happened: His cell phone rang. He looked at it, grumbled and ignored it. Then the house phone rang—and rang and rang at least 20 times. His cell rang again. “Who is it?” I asked, as if I didn’t already know. No one else would be this persistent. This was the work of a crazed girl. This was The Ex.
Ask the Guys: Question #4
To answer this, we need to assume a few things that were not stated, but inferred. We can assume that the relationship that you didn’t “nag” in ended. You weren’t getting what you wanted out of the relationship, so we can also assume that you probably ended it. You were also concerned about your boyfriend complaining to his friends, so you might be very concerned with what other people think. Now, you say, you’re “bossing” your new man around. It’s tough to say for sure, but I would bet a six-month eHarmoney membership that you don’t necessarily “boss” your man, but you are more assertive about your needs because of the way you were treated in your previous relationship.
Malena: A Dose of Self-Reflection
"I can't imagine what dating you must be like," my friend said after our Wednesday night dance practice. She flashed a "wow" face. "You're strong and crazy. I mean in a good way." I was wowed too. All these years, I’d never thought about what it’d be like to date me. I mean, I know what I want in a man, but what do I offer as a woman? Do my aroused looks come off as creepy-club-man glances? What about my intelligent talk, my shrill speech? Is it too much? And my make-out massage, my carrot gnawing? If I were a man, would I want to date me? An existential exercise was in order. I needed to turn my lens onto myself.
Katie: The Upside to the Downside of Being Single
It all started with an earthquake. Only I was in mid-Missouri, not California. So begins the confusion. From that point on, things in my life got pretty shaky. (Pun very much intended.) You see, my life is best represented by something along the lines of the Himalayas - I’m either at the peak of Everest or hurling top speed off a cliff to the valley below. Keep reading "Katie: The Upside to the Downside of Being Single" »
Brian: Good and Not-So-Good B-day Gifts
So, Today's topic: Good and Not-So-Good (well, plain awful) Birthday Gifts.
Mike: 'But I'm Not Looking for a Relationship...' I’m not looking for a relationship. I’ve been in and out of “serious” relationships over the last decade, which you can read about in my intro. I blame this on the movies and music I grew up on that made torturing your soul for love seem romantic. “People worry about kids playing with guns, or watching violent videos…Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands, literally thousands of songs about heartbreak, rejection, pain, misery and loss,” Rob Gordon says in my favorite movie “High Fidelity.” Keep reading "Mike: 'But I'm Not Looking for a Relationship...' " »
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Promo Girl No. 2 and I walked hand-in-hand on the beachfront. It was nearing midnight but neither of us wanted to go home, and surprisingly enough, I wasn’t thinking about taking her back to my place. I felt like I was in high school again. It was that kind of first date. 
QUESTION: I used to be really laid back with my boyfriends, but never got what I wanted out of my relationships. Recently I started nagging my man and all of a sudden he became much more loving and attentive. Do men really like to be nagged, even if they complain about it to their friends? 
Bachelor #1 - According to the Mac dictionary: Nag 1 |nag| verb (nagged, nagging) [trans.] annoy or irritate (a person) with persistent faultfinding or continuous urging.
Her words followed me home.
Last week was the kind of week that made me wish I wasn’t single, glad I am single, hate being single, and then appreciate my singleness. Confused? So am I.
It's my birthday this week, so for this blog I thought I’d write about the best and worst gifts I’ve ever received from past flings. This train of thought kills two very important birds with one stone, one: writing the blog, duh, sorry to test your patience/intellect. two: it allows my editor to stop pistol whipping me and get down to editing. BUT I digress! 
