A Woman’s Best Friend’s Role In Romantic Relationships
A woman’s best friend has to sign off on all big relationship decisions, says the Date Doctor on ‘Hitch’. I examine my own love life to see if that’s true.
Relationships
Navigating Family, Friendship, Marriage, Colleagues, Companions & other social connections
Just A Friendly Conversation
You know you really need to get out and find some sex. Are you offering? Shoot the idiot who thought that men and women could be friends. Can anyone tell me why the above conversation annoyed me? I know why….I’m mad at myself for imagining that I could have a…
Just A Date: That Heady Ol’ Feeling
She said she was going out to dinner. Not family. Not an old friend. Not a classmate or a colleague. Not a ‘marriage prospect’. Something quite like..a date!
XXFactor 55s On Men
Men like teaching me stuff,
Educating me on how it all is
Sometimes things I already know
Occasionally better than them.
Living On The LOC
This is what the stars have to say for me today: The analytical side of your brain is about to do battle with the emotional side of your brain. Which side do you think will win? This prizefight won’t be bloody, but it will have a conclusive winner. The losing…
Girl Talk
A weekend date with two women friends. My male friend put it as, “Spent a lot of money? Bitched a lot about men?” What would he know of girl talk?
Invisible Man
The man and I have several themes of conversations running. We do manage to have those despite bad telephone signals along the train routes, mad auto-rickshawalas, terror workplace situations and differences in time zones.
Peach
Sometimes we are on the same train. I have a ‘subject-to-last-minute-change’ schedule. Maybe so does she. Is she a student? Or a working professional? She dresses like a teenager would, if she had the acquired sense of style that someone at least a decade older would have. Her face is…
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Unbearably Light Monday
I’ve discovered that the only way to survive Monday is to charge at it like you’re on a roller-coaster. Eyes closed, hurtle into it at top speed. It will be over before you know it and what’s more you may even have had fun. You can count the broken bones…
Wine
Glasses that have to be just perfect for the drink they contain.A plaintive voice asking Don’t you serve wine in wine glasses? accompanied by a distressed-disgusted look.Non-plussed over why it is such a big deal. Amused.Thoughtful…I can’t bear to sit on a bed that has anything on it…clothes, books, bags,…