My friend Melissa recently stopped dating a guy because he’s divorced. In her mind, divorced men are damaged goods. She wants her guy pure – no festering resentments, no messy attachments to another woman, no failed model of marriage to replicate or rebel against. For a while, I agreed. My own divorce was a liberation [...]
Archive for September, 2009
Only Divorced Men Need Apply
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged afraid of commitment, attracting love, attracting soulmate, being single, commitment, dating after divorce, dating and relationships, dating divorced man, dating divorced men with kids, dating rules, dating younger guys, divorce, divorced man, divorced singles, finding love, finding soulmate, marry me, relationship with divorced man, single and lonely, singles, tips for dating divorced men, why am I single, why won't he commit, why won't he marry me, younger man older woman on September 27, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Life’s Unfair…So Now What?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bristol Palin, gosselin, guy who got Sarah Palin's daughter pregnant, John McCain, Levi in Vanity Fair, Levi Johnston, me and mrs. palin, Palin's pregnant daughter, Sarah Palin, Trig, Vanity Fair on September 21, 2009 | 8 Comments »
So, I’m on a city bus leaving my low-paid job on the way to the crammed apartment I share with a leaky ceiling and centipedes. To pass the time, I’m reading a Vanity Fair article about Levi Johnston, the dude who impregnated Sarah Palin’s teenage daughter. Apparently Levi, who had a mullet before John McCain’s [...]
Mad Men or Mad Women?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged AMC, Betty Draper, Christina Hendricks, Don Draper, Elisabeth Moss, Elisabeth Moss Emmy, Emmy Awards, January Jones, January Jones Emmy, Joan Holloway, Jon Hamm, Jon Hamm Emmy, Mad Men, Mad Men Blog, Mad Men Emmy, Mad Men Emmy nomination, Mad Men Emmy Winners, Mad Men Emmys, my boss is sexist, Peggy Olson, Pete Campbell, Roger Sterling, sexism, Sterling Cooper, watch Mad Men, women in the 50s, women in the 60s on September 13, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Don Draper may be the sexiest, most gorgeously tortured human being ever to have landed on television. All the male characters on Mad Men tantalize viewers by unbuttoning their over-starched dress shirts to reveal the voluptuous, sometimes vile and always ego-driven hunger of the masculine soul. But what makes the show so delicious is a [...]
I Won’t Let You Be Happy, Why Should I?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged afraid of commitment, another woman, bad breakup, breakup, broken heart, commitment, envy, ex getting married, ex got married, ex has new wife, ex married on Facebook, exboyfriend married, found out ex has new girlfriend, found out ex is married, getting over a breakup, getting over an ex, getting over ex, jealous of marriage, jealous of new girlfriend, jealous of new wife, jealousy, marriage, other woman, single women, tips getting over ex, ways get over ex, why am I single, why won't he marry me on September 7, 2009 | 5 Comments »
I finally had one of those moments when you discover an ex has gotten married and your world momentarily collapses. Facebook was innocently trolling my email address book looking for new users who could become my friends. Martin popped up and when I clicked on his profile picture, I saw him looking mighty fine in a [...]

