Picture if you will: It’s early October. The smell of autumn is brisk and sharp in the air, breaking through the oppressive humidity of the last few weeks. You no longer arrive at work with your head all sweaty, looking like a used hankie. Your shoes have stopped sticking to the street. Thank god for [...]
Posts Tagged ‘time’
Just When You Thought You Were Over Him …
February 12, 2010Why old(er) people are not like children
December 13, 2009It is often said that older people are like children. There is as much truth in that as there is in saying the moon is square.
I think what is really meant, is that older people sometimes react in ways that seem irrational — and this is equated with the reactions of children. It is often [...]
Why 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
When you need your husband’s attention, Tell Him you miss Him
June 12, 2009In the old days I used to tell my husband to stop watching so much TV. I would implore him to cut his late hours at work. I told him I needed help with the yard. Of course what I really wanted was for him to pay more attention to me. Needless to say at [...]
Marital Attacks: Foul fighting; Reasoning; Kitbagging; Blaming; Criticism; Ridiculing continued
January 17, 2009Kitbagging
Here one partner has an imaginary kitbag. Every little injury, every little offence, every little hurt is carefully stored in the kitbag. At the time nothing much is said. The person who uses this technique usually suffers in silence — until the kitbag is full. Then when the next disagreement occurs (and usually it’s an [...]
The big day: bringing your cat home
November 24, 2008As the great day dawns, you’ll awake to the realization that life will never be quite the same again. Ideally, you will have arranged to collect your cat or kitten on a day when you will be at home so that you can reassure it and get to know each other, and also when your [...]
