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

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 [...]

Let’s not get to know each other…

I don’t know if anyone here read the recent Modern Love College Essay Runner-Up about, “Why Spoil Great Sex by Dating?” (thanks for sending this one, Dr. Leah!).
Joel Walkowski, a senior at the University of Southern California, writes that:
“We might dally in the land of easy sex and stilted text-message flirtation, but deep down we [...]

Experience love, sex, and intimacy as you’ve never imagined it…

That’s what Ian Kerner, Ph.D. dares you to do, in his just-published book, Sex Detox - and I’m giving away a spankin’ new copy here.
The second half of Kerner’s book is “The Singles’ Detox,” is a step-by-step plan to “improve your self-awareness, self-esteem, and ability to achieve long-term fulfillment.” I’m following Kerner’s Detox plan [...]

One single mom says that you should settle for Mr. Good Enough

In the past few weeks, so many women have forwarded this month’s Atlantic Monthly essay, “Marry Him! The case for settling for Mr. Good Enough” to me.
Have you read it? I’d love to know what you think.
When I first read this essay, I applauded the writer for putting herself out there. Although I don’t know [...]

What keeps you strong?

The ring tone on my cell phone is now set to Kanye West’s song, Stronger.
That don’t kill me
Can only make me stronger
I need you to hurry up now
Cause I can’t wait much longer
I know I got to be right now
Every time my phone rings, it reminds me to lean on myself — not on a [...]

Single Mom Book Give Away Contest!

Have you read Emily Listfield’s single mom dating column in Redbook? I followed her this year and I’m a huge fan. So, when I heard that Emily’s novel, Waiting to Surface, was coming out this fall, I couldn’t wait to read it.
Waiting to Surface is based on Emily’s own life experiences: in 1999, when she [...]

How to be a mother

If you have not read this week’s essay for Leslie Morgan Steiner’s “On Balance” guest blog at WashingtonPost.com, it’s time.
I’ve always been a huge fan of Steiner’s, and I even wrote an essay last year for her about trying to date as a single mom. (And subsequently got clobbered by her readers for it.)
In “For [...]

Are you a new single mom who’d like to be on national TV?

This morning, a national TV show contacted me in search of “a newly single mom who has been out of the Dating Game for a long time — but is ready to get back in!”
(As you know, I’m not quite a new single mom….)
Are you trying to figure out what you want from a [...]

How Do You Deal with Loneliness?

My single dad buddy, Peter Ehrlich, founder of Single Parent Love Life, wrote recently in his column for the Canadian Star:

“How many times have we walked into a video store, spent forty-five minutes in there, only to walk out with nothing but a cloud over our head that was darker than the one [...]