The other day I answered a question from a woman who was struggling with a decision: listen to her gut or continue to live with a man whom she loves but has serious flaws. Forgiving a loved one’s flaws is one thing, forgetting your happiness is another. This 40-something woman added to this conversation with […] Read more…
Archive of ‘Relationships’ category
What to Do When You Love Him, But Your GUT says GET OUT?
Q. I want to be with my boyfriend but we have major issues he won’t address. We are moving into a new apartment on May 1. Every fiber in my body is telling me to get out. At least get out and live on my own where I can stop and breathe and think. But I can’t […] Read more…
The Dream Wedding? Get Grounded
24 days to the royal wedding of Kate Middleton and Prince William. Of course their wedding is getting more attention than the average late 20-something will receive but it sheds some light on the need to balance the attention between the wedding and the marriage. It’s a topic many 40-somethings have hindsight on and […] Read more…
Don’t Throw Good Time After Bad
I had to take some small guilty pleasure this weekend in the fact that Charlie Sheen bombed in his first show this weekend. It was so bad that many people walked out after 30 minutes and he ended up walking out on himself. It got me thinking yesterday as I was doing some reading on […] Read more…
Don’t Let Engagements Get in Your Face
Marriage is more in our face than ever. Not only due to the frenzy over the upcoming nuptials of Kate Middleton and Prince Williams, but also due to the proliferation of Facebook engagment announcements. Marie Claire recently ran an essay expressing one woman’s sheer frustration with the gushing that goes on online. Her beef is […] Read more…
Cutting the Family Ties
I recently answered a question about the trade-offs of living at home vs. buying an apartment. A 20-something woman who moved here from Eastern Europe brought the question up again through the lens of “what happens when your parents and family don’t want you to move out?” Independence is in many ways a core value […] Read more…
How Did You Meet?
A lot of women I meet want to hear stories of how couples met. So today I am sharing one woman’s story of finding love after years of casual dating. She took an approach that started with putting herself first. She made a conscious effort to take a year to focus on her personal life. She […] Read more…
What is it That You Want?
This weekend I did a Three Gifts for a Twenty-Something post from a woman who wanted to give a 20-something the ability to “Love yourself. Find what makes you happy.The biggest gift you can give yourself is to love time with yourself.” She learned this from her personal life…she’s been married and divorced and recently […] Read more…