He had to be blond. He had to have blue eyes. He had to be tall and well-built. He had to have a dominant personality. It would have been a definite plus if he were a musician. Blue jeans had to hug his ass just right. These things are what a 16 year-old me would have said was my ideal man. As you can see, the criteria is embarrassingly shallow. I have an excuse though, I was 16! for you 21+ …

You’ve been on a blind date. You’ve let a friend or even a *gasp* relative fix you up. You’ve even used dating sites. That means you’ve dated strangers. You’ve put yourself in a position where you are going to be spending time with someone completely new to your life. I’m making it sound bad, aren’t I? Honestly, though. How often does it occur to you that you are choosing to date strangers when you have perfectly good, attractive friends you can be dating?
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Hi again, We are going to be bringing up the topic of “the other woman” in this post as well as the next one. These posts will contain two very different but very valid points of view. One point of view (me) will be of someone who not only was at one time the “other woman” but sympathizes with them, and the other point (S. McDowell) will be of someone who has really been victimized by the “other woman” and has a very good reason for maybe …

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Oh, how we love sharing stories of dates gone wrong. How we love to spin yarns about how our date was totally weird or icky. It’s a great past time for us. It makes us laugh and realize how lucky we are to have great friends with whom to share our great stories…..that is until you realize that one of your friends is the icky date all the other people are talking about.
I had an icky friend. It was weird and uncomfortable to listen to some …