Because they hurt when we hurt. When something bad happens in our lives, our female friends are always good for commiseration and advice. “That stinks,” they’ll nod sympathetically. Or, “You should just march in there and give her a piece of your mind,” they’ll say indignantly. When you tell a guy about the latest trauma [...]
Posts Tagged ‘relationship’
Why Girls Love Guys, Five Reasons to go Continued
November 20, 2009Why Girls Love Guys, Five Reasons to go
November 20, 2009Because they put up with us. Face it: What seems like perfectly normal behavior to us is bona fide alien-nation stuff to them. And yet, often, with great grace and good humor, men do their level best to accommodate the needs of these strange female creatures. One woman recalls how a guy she befriended in [...]
A Current Affair (or, Cheaters Never Prosper)
October 7, 2009So far, we’ve seen him refuse to a) give you the love you need, b) modify his behavior, c) say one nice thing to you, and d) make a commitment. But wait, there’s more. The last bomb on the heartbreak minefield has yet to explode. Brace yourself—many consider it to be the most combustible of [...]
The Real Breakup
October 7, 2009The Force-outs So here we are, hitting the hard stuff —real breakups, we mean. This is the classic passive-aggressive maneuver: One member of a relationship wants to sever ties but refuses to say so. Finally, things get so bad that the other member is forced to do the dirty deed. This is tantamount to a [...]
Breakup and his Denial Limbo
September 26, 2009“When my girlfriend and I ended it after two years,” said a thirty-year-old pharmaceutical rep, “my first thought was, ‘I’m free, I’m finally free.’ For about a month, I went out like crazy. When people asked me if I was depressed about the breakup, I’d say something like, ‘No, it was time for it to [...]
High Price of Love, Money in the Bank
September 12, 2009Should you get joint accounts, separate accounts, or a combination of both? It really depends on your communication style. To help you decide, here’s a rundown of the most common ways to manage money.
The Feeling Pain of Lost /Abandoned Love
August 30, 2009Yup. Heartbreak has no mercy. It doesn’t just cause emotional turmoil—why stop there?—it takes its physical toll, too. Some of the most common symptoms reported: heartbreak pimples, heartbreakheartbreak insomnia, heartbreak intestinal disorders, and heartbreak headaches. Not to mention that your eyes and nose are often so swollen from crying, you can barely see to assess [...]
The top ten things you think of saying when you want to break it off
August 24, 200910. The dog ate my love for you. 9. It’s not you, it’s me. I’m not attracted to you.
After Breakup, Should I try to get him back?
August 16, 2009Practically every woman we talked to asked this question. Funny thing was, they didn’t all mean the same thing. About three-quarters of them wanted to know whether they should attempt a reconciliation. The rest wondered whether they should attempt . . . revenge.
Being damped, what did I do to deserve this?
August 16, 2009Well, there was that fat girl you made fun of in the third grade. And then there was the little incident when you stole a lipstick from Woolworth’s. Not to mention all those impure thoughts and the time you ate a doughnut at Passover. Strike that (the old wives possessed our brains for one second [...]
