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Are you honest, with a big heart, and no addictions?

By singlemomseeking ⋅ July 3, 2008 ⋅ 20 comments

When I first put myself online, this is how I started off my Match.com profile:
“Are you honest, with a big heart, and no addictions?”
Can you tell that I’ve had some lousy history with at least one dishonest man struggling with an addiction? (Yes, I take responsibility for choosing ‘em.)
After spending a couple of [...]

Condom giveaway: tell us about your fav condom

By singlemomseeking ⋅ June 30, 2008 ⋅ 16 comments

Who knew that my post, “Do you always use a condom?“, would be one of the most popular ever? I’d like to thank all of you for your oh-so-honest thoughts on this uh, touchy, issue.
Andrea says that since her divorce, she has always asked men to play it safe, and they have: “Seriously? Asking you [...]

Is the man you’re dating a mirror of you?

By singlemomseeking ⋅ June 23, 2008 ⋅ 10 comments

Wendy Merrill, author of the new memoir, Falling into Manholes, says that he is.
I know Wendy in person and she’s just as hot, genuine, and honest in person as she is in her book. No, she’s not a single mom. Yes, she is so open and revealing about life and love — that I had [...]

The Biologist and I are taking a break… or maybe more than that?

By singlemomseeking ⋅ May 28, 2008 ⋅ 25 comments

It might be a temporary break. It might be permanent.
This probably won’t come as any surprise to you, considering, um, the trials (I just wrote “trails,” but yes, those, too) we’ve been through up until this point.
I need to be careful about what I say here. Not only do I fear hurting his feelings — [...]

I’m trying to be a “sex-positive mom,” really I am

By singlemomseeking ⋅ April 30, 2008 ⋅ 16 comments

This weekend, a mysterious brown box was on my doorstep, with a return address from a local warehouse. Whenever there’s a box at our door, Mae assumes it’s for her. It usually is.
But I had a feeling that it was for me this time. That’s because Babeland had contacted me recently to blog about being [...]

“Nowhere in your ad should you mention your children”

By singlemomseeking ⋅ April 24, 2008 ⋅ 19 comments

That’s what Sherrie Schneider, co-author of The Rules for Online Dating, suggests in an article at LavaLife.com.
“Don’t say that you love hugging your three-year-old or taking walks with your teen,” Sherrie adds in the “The Single Mom Conundrum.”
“And never, ever, post a photograph online that shows you with your kids.”
I agree with Sherrie about the [...]

Help: How do you have a sleepover when your kid is in the other room?

By singlemomseeking ⋅ April 14, 2008 ⋅ 36 comments

If you think I’m asking you this for selfish reasons — you’re right.
It was so easy when I was the single mom of a wee little one, like Ms. Single Mama or Chrissy at Glamour.
Back in the days, it was so simple. I could invite a man over — and escort him out the door [...]

Hollywood options movie about a single mom who settles

By singlemomseeking ⋅ April 10, 2008 ⋅ 18 comments

When I wrote about Lori Gottlieb’s Atlantic Monthly article “Marry Him! The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough,” you had a lot to say about not settling. Thanks!
Now get this: Lori’s article has just been optioned by Warner to become a movie. She got a book deal out of it, too — sold to [...]

Do you own a first date skirt?

By singlemomseeking ⋅ March 26, 2008 ⋅ 15 comments

This week, at Single Minded Women, I say that “every single mom needs a first-date skirt.”
But I can’t take credit for this advice. It was my single mom friend, Arden, who gave me this tip very early on, when I was terrified to go on one of my first dates as a single mom, and [...]

I invited the Biologist to our Easter egg hunt

By singlemomseeking ⋅ March 23, 2008 ⋅ 9 comments

And then I promptly disinvited him.
But it wasn’t because I didn’t want to see him. (I really wanted to see him!). Moreover, I really wanted my single mom friends to meet him.
It would have been so convenient: three of my closest single mom girlfriends were all at the Egg Hunt. So, I’d invited the Biologist [...]

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