April 2007 - Posts
In almost every call, I hear the question, "How is he feeling about me?" Now this is not the least bit unreasonable for a couple of reasons: 1. Most callers are women, and we just looooooove labels; and 2. Ummm, that's
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Can we all look at ourselves in the mirror and like what we see? I don't mean your nose, or your eyes or your skin. I mean, do we like the person we see staring back at us?
Sometimes I wonder if it's just the fact that I live in
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Or maybe I got that wrong, when you're breaking up you eat a cake -- or if you consider my clients -- who have this weird predilection -- it's Oreos.
But this is a seriously serious subject. Almost everyone I've ever met has been
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"When is he going to change?" I get asked this question all the time.
"When is my quiet, nonemotional guy who breaks out in a rash every time the word 'love' is uttered going to start crooning 'Feelings'
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If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it must be a duck, right?
Wrong. Love isn't logical. Aside from the fact that I would be out of a job if it was, we'd all be happily sitting with the perfect little logical
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We've all heard the saying, "What goes around, comes around." But so often what goes around -- just seems to keep going around. I mean, honestly, where the heck did it go?
All my life, I've run around stomping
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No, this blog isn't about ghosts, unless you find yourself alone and are merely haunted by the ghost of friends past. Lately, I've been noticing more and more women working against women, and I've got a problem with it.
I was lamenting
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I've said before, "I wish I could zip past the first three months straight into the third year in a relationship."
Now that seems kinda convoluted, doesn't it, wishing your life away? But it seems in my experience that
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The answer is no. You can only get a regular fries if you order a Diet Coke. If you get the salad AND the Diet Coke, then you can order the supersize fries with full impunity.
Okay, so
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I've always had this "thing" for peacocks. Needless to say, they're beautiful animals, but I've always had a fascination with them. Presently, I live in an area where they wander free through the neighborhood. But it goes
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Did you ever look around and everyone else has boyfriends, is getting married, is having a baby? They're all deliriously happy, and you are the only loveless, lonely, unwanted person around.
Yeah, right. Did you ever
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When I was small, other than the requisite underlying premise that I really was a fairy princess, I also possessed a certain knowledge that I would grow up to find my Prince Charming, who would sweep me off my feet onto his
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Say he tells you you're beautiful on the first date and doesn't mention it again. Three months later, you are going to be wondering why he doesn't think you're pretty.
But if on the first date he says, "OMG, I didn't know they made jeans that
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"You're born alone and you die alone."
For a long time, I misunderstood that phrase of my grandmother's. It sounded so lonely. And yet now, I get it.
Although we may be surrounded by loving parents while
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I get a lot of calls from women who are upset that they're doing all the work in the relationship. But most of the time when I delve into it, it seems they trained their men that way.
The relationship started, the guy wasn't
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Well, it should be!
I'm not ashamed to admit that patience is one of my life's lessons. I have a personal saying, "I want it all and I want it all NOW" -- which incidentally, my daughter recently pointed out they made a song out
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