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 ‘women’
Just When You Thought You Were Over Him …
February 12, 2010Heartbreak, What Sets It Off
February 12, 2010Oh, just about anything—depression never needs a formal invitation in order to come a-calling. For some women, heartbreak is the perfect topper to a general feeling of malaise. “I think it was just the drudgery of dating that made me think that I missed him all over again,” says one twentyeight-year-old woman. Says another, “I [...]
Marriage Doubts
December 4, 2009Marriage is like a cage; the birds outside are desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out. Unlived life is a destructive and irresistible force working quietly but relentlessly. The result is that the married woman begins to doubt marriage. The unmarried woman believes in it, because she desires marriage.
Why Girls Love Guys, Five Reasons to go Continued
November 20, 2009Because 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 [...]
Your ex is getting married. How do you feel?
September 17, 2009There you are, happy with your life, dating a lot, feeling thin, and then word comes down the grapevine: Your ex is getting married. How do you feel? It depends. If you’re still attached to him, it can be a pretty devastating little piece of news. “I found out through friends that he had gotten [...]
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 [...]
Your Pal, Her Enemy：Does your wife give hard time on your friends?
August 17, 2009He drinks too much and cheats on his wife. He drags you (twisting your arm, of course) to strip joints. If you were in a commercial with the guy, you’d be the one holding up your beer and blubbering, “I love you, man.” He’s your friend, and your woman hates him.
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 [...]
So ending relationship, so what am I supposed to do with all this time?
July 31, 2009The question isn’t what are you supposed to do, but what do you want to do. Short of lying prostrate in his doorway, almost anything goes. Most of the women we spoke to said that they found the greatest comfort in talking to friends. One twenty five-year-old respondent didn‘t even draw the line at friends. [...]
