Should you be auditioning to be some guy’s wife?
I’ve seen this quite a few times, and it drives me nuts.
Girl dates boy. Girl moves in with boy. Girl works a demanding full-time job, yet takes over all the cooking and cleaning for boy. It’s not the living together I object to but the idea that some women automatically assume the scut work in [...]
Can you get a guy to marry you?
I’ve received a number of emails lately from women asking how to get their reluctant boyfriends to marry them.
If you’re in this situation, if you’re feeling that scary, desperate feeling in your stomach that you have to ‘get’ a man to do anything, here’s the most powerful thing you can do: Exercise your option of [...]
If you’re going to get married, marry the right guy
Last week, Salon ran an interview with Lori Gottlieb, the author of Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough. We added our two cents here.
And the other day, The Daily Beast ran a piece by Anne Milford and Jennifer Gauvain, authors of How Not to Marry the Wrong Guy. You’ll be glad to read [...]
Take the pressure off Valentine’s Day
Today is Valentine’s Day. Whether you’re a fan or not, the thing that matters most is the quality of your relationships, not some card or gift. And your most important relationship is
with yourself.
If you’re dating someone now, great; I’ll get to you in a minute.
If you’re NOT dating anyone right now, you certainly have at [...]
Valentine’s Day Blog-a-thon
Last September, Keysha rolled out her brainchild, the first-ever Single Women Rule Blog Crawl, which featured some mighty fine bloggers, including Bella DePaulo and Ronnie Ann Ryan.
Dr. DePaulo writes for people who are single and have no intention of being anything but. Ronnie, on the other hand, is a coach to single men and women [...]
Date in your pajamas: free video speed dating event
BY Skyecandy
(with commentary by SWR’s Keysha Whitaker)
Forget blind dates, noisy bars and ‘traditional’ online dating, a new style of dating has hit singles in time for Valentine’s Day. Skyecandy announces a worldwide dating event this Valentine’s Day to celebrate the official launch of Skyecandy video speed dating via Skype.
Okay, they have a point. The dating game [...]
The book that has some women hopping mad
Salon interviewed Lori Gottlieb, the author of Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough.
According to the article by Sarah Hepola:
As in the 2008 Atlantic essay that started it all, Gottlieb’s depiction of single womanhood can be practically monstrous, a misery parade of boring happy hours and appointments with the bikini waxer, nights [...]
“8 Reasons To Enjoy Your Single Status”
SWR member Debby shared this post she found on Shine – “8 Reasons To Enjoy Your Single Status (For Now) by Erin Meanley.
As I’ve said before,I think the word “single” is problematic. Women, especially, when they enter into a monogamous relationship have the all-too-eager tendency to forget they are still a single woman. (If you’re in [...]
Why people under 40 don’t want to get married
I came across a fascinating article in The Daily Beast this morning about a phenomenon a priest mentioned last summer. He said he wouldn’t have to alter his weekend Mass schedule to accommodate weddings because they’re just weren’t enough weddings to warrant it.
“Nobody wants to commit,’ he lamented.
The Beast’s Hannah Seligson writes:
“The median age for [...]
Reasons to be single (and cheerful)
It amazes me that in 2010, women who marry still find themselves responsible for most of the domestic drudgery. Check out this sad article by Ann Friedman in The American Prospect.
I have a theory that if more women demanded a better deal, they’d get it (and, by the way, it also bugs the [...]
My Sister’s Place: Invest in relationships in 2010
Have you ever noticed that the New Year is laden with messages to cut people out of your life or make new friends, but very few messages on how to nurture, maintain and strengthen already existing relationships? Relationships are important, family is important, friendships are important and having someone to love is important. Without relationships, [...]
Is it love (or something else)?
Since a lot of us deal with issues surrounding men we love during the holidays, SWR is running two relationship articles back-to-back this week. If you’re happily single and set on remaining that way, please be patient with us.
If you tend to attract men who disappoint you (by cheating on you, not showing up [...]
Closure is closer than you think
Vanessa at ThatHappenedtoMe.com shared a forum post from Cindy, a woman who’d been dumped this year by her fiancé. A few months later, he was married to another woman with two kids, then a few more months later, expecting his first child with the new wife. Cindy is devastated. On top of feeling jilted and [...]
Movie Review: Paper Heart
I fell in love this weekend with a little movie that just came out on DVD, entitled Paper Heart, in which actress and musician Charlyne Yi wants to fall in love but isn’t sure she’s capable of it.
She sets out on a road trip across the country to find out all she can about attraction, romance, [...]
How Tiger Woods’ ‘transgressions’ hurt men
When I first heard about Tiger Woods’ car accident and the subsequent police investigation, I thought to myself, “How is this any of my business? The guy didn’t hurt himself, and he didn’t hurt anyone else, either.”
But then rumors surfaced that his wife hadn’t rescued him from the vehicle with a golf club, as he’d [...]
