• How to Help a friend with her relationship

    The Issue Do you find it that you are always the Oprah or Dr. Phil to your friends? I am starting to find it hard to say comforting things to a friend who is dealing with what  she describes  as a relationship but to everyone else seems to be anything but a relationship by any stretch of the word.…

  • Is A Break Up Near?

    After covering Should You Get Back with your ex as part of my Off Topic series; it seemed only fitting to cover Break ups today.  Break-ups are very difficult.  The fact that our relationship may be ending is hard but sometimes it’s time to let it go. Trying to  hold on to someone who has emotionally let you go is not…

  • Sex on 1st Date?

    Sex on 1st Date?

    Sex on the first date is typically a bad idea, for a myriad of reasons. For starters, the sexual double standards that our society holds so dear: a woman who “gives it up” too fast has to be prepared to be called a slut or to lose her chance at a lasting romance with the same person…