Category Archives: Dating and Relationships – Divorced Girl Smiling

How long should you wait to date after a divorce? When I first got separated, it bothered me when people tried to give me advice about dating and my love life, along with when the right time was to start dating again. I felt like saying, "I'm the onl...

I want to share my thoughts on dating during Coronavirus. If you’re a writer or a reader, then you likely know of Gabriel Garcia Márquez’ masterpiece: Love in the Time of Cholera. When that book was published in the mid 80s, I was in my early te...

When I hear someone say, "I got dumped" I cringe. Why? Because the word "dumped" sounds really harsh, mean and insensitive.   I recently received this text from a friend: "I got dumped. He said there just wasn't a spark."   First...

When I heard about a recent Stanford University study about what women are attracted to, and that revealed the fact that women are more attracted to men who make them laugh, I had to laugh. They had to do a study to figure that out? Isn’t it common...

I can still remember some amazing dates I had before I was married—the kind of dates that started in the afternoon at a Cubs game or a museum, that continued into dinner, followed by an after-dinner cocktail at a little Lincoln Park Pub or a piano ...