Excerpt: "My breasts were really quite put out. I'd already extorted six months of breast-feeding out of them back in 2005 so they stood there, tapping their stilettos, demanding to know why in God's name they had to go commando under a cooking apron with...
Toxic people actually tell you they’re toxic. People will tell you who they are. And when they do, you’ve got to listen. I previously described, HERE, a colleague and a romantic partner who told me they were toxic from the get-go. I decided to overlook these warnings because...
The Toxic Man (or Woman) is Unreliable and Inconsistent. Unreliability is an important red flag that will usually pop up in the early stages of the relationship. So it’s a good idea to pay attention before you fall under the toxic (wo)man’s thrall. If your date tells you...
Now that you've answered my questionnaire and determined you may, indeed, be bad at avoiding relationships and even friendships with Asshats, be sure to bookmark this page. Because over the next nine weeks I'm going to take you on an in-depth tour of 9 Red Flags...
Welcome to my How to Avoid Toxic Relationships to Find Real Love Tutorial. Over the next several months we'll be working together to discover if you're in a toxic relationship and, if so, how to extricate yourself in order to find the love that will help...
I met my friend Mistress Justine for lunch on Abbot Kinney in Venice on Friday. That’s not her real name, but it should be. She and her husband, Raoul (also a pseudonym) have been married fifteen years. The last time we spoke Justine admitted their sex...
This post was originally published on my literary site, The Woman Formerly Known As Beautiful, but I think will be useful if you're in a long-term marriage/partnership with kids: As I unsnap the onesie on my daughter, chortling and kicking on a Target diaper deck, and maneuver...
Newlyweds Margaret and David are still figuring out the sexual dynamics of their marriage. In bed Margaret is soft. Demure. Enticing as Brigitte Bardot in And God Created Woman, with doe-like come-hither glances and marzipan hair. She’s as tremulous as the surface of...
In case you didn't know, my husband and Henry and I are working our way through that seminal book 101 Nights of Great Sex by the dulcet Laura Corn. This is our second foray into the book. Our first adventure, The Velvet Tongue, was a smash hit. Let...
As some of you may be aware I had a mild midlife-crisis moment a month or so ago after dancing in a gay club with attractive, sweaty young men who humored me. I came home a bit disgruntled by the sexual stasis in my long-term relationship...