If you’re unmarried and over the age of consent, you’ve probably joined one or more online dating sites. Now, lots of people start out punching in the credit card digits, expiration dates and security codes to join Match.com, J-Date or eHarmony. You check off those little wi… Read full post »

Rick Santorum to Start Dating Site for Single Moms

I had you going there for a minute! Not since Dan Quayle’s rants against Murphy Brown have we seen a GOP prez hopeful blame the ills of the world on unmarried and divorced mothers. Guess we were wrong when we… Read full post »

To love others, you must first love yourself.” If you are old enough to remember the catfight between Alexis and Krystle or have ever worn linebacker shoulder pads, you might recall Leo “Dr. Love” Buscaglia to whom we owe this quote.

You’re either on the “that’s a… Read full post »

The notion of soul mates is essentially the “lid for every pot” notion of relationships.  Now, I can appreciate the whole romantic aspect.  But, like my ten year old daughter who questioned the existence of Santa after discovering the jolly red man had borrow/… Read full post »

Recently,  Salon’s  Tracy Clark-Flory blogged about Why It’s Healthy for Couples to Stay on OKCupid.   The relationship/sex blogger quoted some other relationship gurus who noted the natural tendency to comparision shop to validate one’s choice of mate.

Lots of O… Read full post »

Now, I’ll be the first to admit I am not much of a sports fan. During the Super Bowl, I don’t even turn on the TV till the half -time show.

But, I would suspect the game is longer than the pre-game show.

I do stay glued to the TV… Read full post »

Tracy Clark-Flory’s Salon interview with evolutionary biologist Justin Garcia presents The Argument for Sexual Exclusivity.  SUNY/Binghamton Doctoral Fellow Garcia has focused his academic career on the notion of romantic love, mating behavior, pair bonding, and yes, monogamy. Not surprisi/… Read full post »

Before TV veteran Sherwood Schwartz brought us Bob, Carol, and their blended posse, the sitcom maven created an unlikely group of castaways lost on a “three hour tour.”  Sherwood passed away July 12 at the age of 94, leaving a legacy of syndicated shows and what US News… Read full post »

 In his recent blog on The Frisky, blogger John DeVore theorized about "Why Men Cheat Redux."  Apparently, DeVore has made a habit of examining this topic which either incites ire or excites, maybe a bit of both. DeVore chalks it up to “people are jerks.”

I do not agr… Read full post »

When you are raising daughters, it can be difficult to separate your outcomes from your hopes for your children.  According to Freud, repetition compulsion leads us to repeat patterns in relationships until we get them right. I suspect one reason we decide to procreate is to get a few more chanc/… Read full post »

 Sex, Lies, and Politics

Just on the heels of the Governator/Baby Mama/Domestic scandal, we were hit with a one-two punch, with the indictment of John Edwards and Twitter Boy Anthony Weiner.

Now, for the disclaimer.  I am not going to feign I am above an occasional TMZ troll.  Sure,… Read full post »

In the time since I last posted about The Governator and Maria, we’ve learned he sired a son with twenty year domestic employee Patty Baena who like everyone else in this soap opera has hired an attorney. Welcome to L.A.  The internet is filled with photos of Arnold boogying… Read full post »

 I wasn’t too surprised to hear Maria kicked The Governator to the curb or that they had announced a separation, depending on the spin.  I’d always considered Arnold to be an opportunistic narcissist even before he went on to leave the state of California in worse shape t/… Read full post »

Over the weekend, on a somewhat misguided break from a writing assignment, I decided to peruse a dating website. I had taken a sabbatical, resisting all those email enticements which arrive daily in my inbox. Nothing ventured…

Since my “list” was saved, browsing was e… Read full post »

This afternoon, I confessed to a friend that my usually infrequent television viewing habits have been usurped by Kate and Wills.  From Meredith’s AM reports from the Royal Milliner to a telenovela about the Royal Couple’s romantic beginnings at St. Andrew’s, I’ve/… Read full post »

Bristol Palin’s name appeared on the Yahoo and Google trending lists because she presumably took a vow of celibacy.  Apparently, a foundation run by the shoe company which makes Candie’s gave her a hefty financial incentive to the tune of $265,200.  On a side note,/… Read full post »

HuffPost Divorce Blogger Emily V. Gordon recently asked, “Deep down inside, did you know you’d get divorced one day?”   The therapist referenced a get together with girlfriends from across the relationship status spectrum.  When one of the non div/… Read full post »

HuffPost Divorce Blogger Emily V. Gordon recently asked, “Deep down inside, did you know you’d get divorced one day?”   The therapist referenced a get together with girlfriends from across the relationship status spectrum.  When one of the non div/… Read full post »

Marriage: The Ultimate Penalty?

Tomorrow, the Farrelly Bros. flick “Hall Pass” will open on 2,950 screens across the country. Disclaimer: I have only seen the trailer and the website. In an L.A. Times interview, the brothers cite the film as pro-marriage, pro-monogamy, pro-r… Read full post »

There’s a scene at the end of Frank Capra’s “It’s a Wonderful Life” in which George Bailey’s daughter Zuzu comments, “Every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings.” If you have never perched in front of the tv watching this Christmas c… Read full post »

 Recently, I drove by a billboard featuring Ken (as in Ken and Barbie) flashing a Hollywood smile expressing “Barbie, you’re the perfect doll for me!”

Now, I spent the better part of my childhood playing with Barbie and friends.  I suspect my love for shoes may hav/… Read full post »

Back in the days when I was skirting an inevitable divorce, I began to experiment with blogging to reconnect with the girl I had been before I traded my sex life for sterling and strollers.  My first forays into writing online read like I was channeling Carrie Bradshaw meets Erica Jong. … Read full post »

Semen sensitivity.  We're not talking about when a man cries when you blurt out the "L" word during pillow talk. This is much more serious. 

Earlier this week, The Los Angeles Times reported “some poor men are apparently allergic to their own semen.” Thomas H. Maugh II fi/… Read full post »

Back in the steamy days of summer, Tony Parker and Erin Barry exchanged a barrage of flirty text.  Apparently, Tony and Erin’s spouses weren’t too desperate…and both filed for divorce.  The texting duo denied anything moving any body parts other than f/… Read full post »

The other day, my teenaged daughter came bounding downstairs to the breakfast table with news about some classmates’ romantic lives.  Caught between discouraging my 14 year old from becoming the Hedda Hopper of her high school and teaching her to conside… Read full post »