On Friday I did a post about giving a guy more than one chance to show his good side. Just wanted to talk about the exception. Don’t keep dating a guy who exhibits damaging behavior no matter how interesting it may seem. There is run of the mill bad boy drama which we all do […] Read more…
Archive of ‘Relationships’ category
Be Open to the Other Guy
Consider the other guy. There’s a tendency for young women to be drawn to the brightest star at the bar (or wherever) at the expense of getting to know some pretty cool guys. A male friend of mine who does a lot of dating pointed out that a lot of men out there that are […] Read more…
Friends Should Have Your Back
Q. I’m friends with a group of girls who used to hate me in high school because of the male attention I used to get. After high school we all ended up going to the same university and got to know each other and became close. However, I always get the feeling that these people […] Read more…
Nurture Your Independence
A lot of women feel the pressure of family expectations. Love your family, be there for them but as this woman who spent a lot of her 20’s bending to her family’s wishes, wishes for you: don’t do it at the expense of making your own life too. “You don’t always have to do everything […] Read more…
Bad Guys Gone Good?
Yesterday I began to answer the question from a 20-something, “do bad guys ever eventually turn good?” This was in response to the advice not to waste too much time on bad guys in your twenties. Date them, have fun with them, but don’t try to change them or marry them. But perhaps, depending on […] Read more…
What is a “Bad Guy”?
Q: Do bad guys ever eventually become good guys? A. Depends on what you mean by “bad guy”. I get a lot of advice from 40-something women about not spending too much time with bad boys. But 20-somethings want to know, what is a bad guy…and can they morph into a good guy? Many 40-somethings […] Read more…
20-something women: What do you think of Charlie Sheen’s treatment of women?
Links here to a few articles that get at Charlie Sheen’s past treatment of women, whether the media should or not cover that ….or his story at all for that matter. I’m curious, what do 20-something women think of Sheen’s goddesses and history of abuse and the media coverage? http://jezebel.com/#!5774374/charlie-sheens-history-of-violence-toward-women http://piersmorgan.blogs.cnn.com/2011/03/06/more-than-just-winning-why-charlie-sheen-is-news-like-it-or-not/ Read more…
Change is Good
I’m lucky. A friend of mine has great mantras. So I get to steal hers. One of my favorites is one that you have heard here before, “Of course you can, you’re an adult!” I think the idea of a mantra is to live by it and use it to reaffirm your choices and give […] Read more…