Advice

A New Start for a New Year

Penny, my 15-pound miniature pinscher, senses something is missing. She paces back and forth, not playing with her toys, looks at her water bowl and bits of kibble, looks at the spot where there used to be another dog bowl. When the other dog was here, Penny was in constant motion. She would only momentarily [...]


Say What You Mean & Mean What You Say

Will you have the courage to communicate the truth to another person of exactly what it is that you really feel about them, good, bad, or crazy? Just try it and see what happens. Go on, I dare you.


Falling for Potential

“Well, you’ll never guess who I ran into last night,” I said as I climbed into the comfortable booth in my neighborhood watering hole. Bree rolled her eyes, took another sip of beer then placed her glass neatly on the coaster, “let me guess . . . was it . . . Caroline?” “Holy crap, [...]


The Social Network’s Irrational Man

Those of you who have read my writing before probably have read something about the MBTI (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator) and Jungian personality type theory. Seeing the movie The Social Network, I’m compelled once again. We constantly hear about women and their emotions– how irrational they can be or how much women flip-flop. However, men can [...]


The cynic’s guide to online dating

I’m not fan of online dating (I’ve written about this before), but there comes a time when the water runs so dry that you know you need to do something to change your luck. And it’s with this situation that I found myself back online trying to meet some new women. Almost instantly, I remembered [...]


Wing Girls Make Great Girlfriends

Maybe I’m blowing my own bubble, but I asked my boyfriend and he thinks it’s okay that I write about the wing girl-”great girlfriend” paradigm. I’ll try to be brief. You might already know, or can easily guess, why a wing girl would make a “great” girlfriend. So, maybe this is really for all the [...]


Honesty Would Have Been The Best Policy

It’s late . . . really late. Rachael and I are going for a late night walk. As we stop at the corner, I mention that my place is just one block away and asked if she would like to come up. She agreed, and we proceeded to my loft. We had been seeing each [...]


Why women get caught up in the past

This is a guest post contributed by Allison Schleck, a featured writer for Online Dating Sites. Allison is a well-accomplished bilingual writer for magazines, websites and newspapers who teaches Karate Do on her down time. Curiosity can be a blessing and a curse for women. When we start a new relationship everything is going great [...]


Dazed and Confused

I knew I looked good Saturday night. The hair. The makeup. The outfit. Everything was working for me that night. I stepped into the club completely confident that I would at least find someone of interest to dance with. One cutie immediately started doing the look-and-look-away routine as I stood by the dance floor. I made [...]


7 Things that Scare Women Away

This is a guest post contributed by Julie Fishman who is a writer for DatingWebsites.org. Julie has done everything from develop a dental school guide to write an intellectual analysis of MTV’s “The Hills” to contribute to the book Gradspot: A Guide to Life After College. While there are plenty of fish in the sea, [...]