Do Money and Attractiveness Excuse Cheating?
Tiger Woods and his fondness for 20-something-year-old fame cravers, has brought back the oft-held debate about male fidelity. At the writing of this posting, Tiger’s marriage seems to still be alive even if damaged. No moving trucks have been to his home.
Tiger is a professional golfer with a wife and two small children. Perhaps his looks don’t turn heads exactly, but I don’t know anyone who finds him to be repulsive. Oh yeah, he’s also the first billionaire athlete. That last part seems to be what really heats up the fidelity debate. “A man is only as faithful as his options.”
Continue reading »Matching Lameness Is A-OK for Halloween
I take pride in the fact that I have never ever* worn matching outfits with a boyfriend. In fact, pointing and laughing at such tragic couples was a very satisfying adolescent pastime at shopping malls and amusement parks. For some reason, gingham shorts sets seemed to be very popular among the coordinated-outfits crowd. But alas, Halloween presents an opportunity to coordinate and maybe, just maybe, not be lame.
For some odd reason, my husband has suggested
Continue reading »Grown Folks Romance
In the Midwest, there’s a thing called “Sweetest Day,” which is basically a fall version of Valentine’s Day. As a teenager growing up in Detroit, I dated a lot and I had friggin’ awesome Sweetest Days. I got flowers, balloons, jewelry, teddy bears, just all kinds of your stereotypically cheesy romantic stuff. For some reason I usually had awful Valentine’s Days (ie unreasonably high expectations), but Sweetest Days were almost always great.
Today, as a 30-year-old grown up, most of that stuff is lame to me. I am definitely still a romantic, but balloons and flowers and all those generic forms of flattery just don’t make the cut anymore and they haven’t for quite some time. My idea of romance now
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