If you're feeling lonely in your long distance relationship and trying to resist the urge to stray, check out these tips for how NOT to cheat on your long distance love. Loyalty and loneliness Being monogamous, when temptation is everywhere, can be difficult enough on a relationship, but add distance to the equation and the temptation to stray simply increases. While you're completely head over … [Read more...]
10 things you should do on a FIRST Date: especially if you want to get a second one!
You're pretty sure you're fully covered when it comes to what not to do on a date; no blatant farting or revealing the fact that mental illness runs rampant on your father's side of the family. And yet, despite putting on your game face and playing by the rules, the last three dates you went on yielded no second ones. Clearly you must be doing something wrong. Here's how to get it … [Read more...]
On marriage: Love one another but make not a bond of love
I was just watching All in the Family- and caught this scene when Mike reads a passage at his best friend's wedding ( A very YOUNG and skinny Billy Crystal) in all their bell bottom seventies glory and well the passage, on marriage, made me cry and I felt the need to share: From The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran On Marriage You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore. You shall be … [Read more...]
Put your husband first or, more aptly put, don’t lose sight of your relationship
By Carolyn Edgar An article on the Café Mom blog generated a bit of controversy recently by suggesting that the key to a happy marriage is for women to love their husbands more than their children. Arguing that "if mom and dad aren't happy, ain't nobody else happy either," the writer argues that a woman should prioritize her marriage higher than anything else, including the couple's … [Read more...]
Single mom dating online…does it ever get any better
By Single mom dating So I'm sitting at the computer wondering how I got to this point in my life? I did everything, my good little girl self was told. I ate my veggies, never talked to strangers and always crossed my legs while sitting. I played by the rules; I got married- by those very same rules. I played house, or tried to for a long time, especially after we had kids. We had that life-- that … [Read more...]