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The Ghosts Of Boyfriends Past
It is my sophomore year of college circa 1985. I’m driving my lemon of a Ford Mustang on the mean streets of La Habra, California at 3 a.m. What is an intelligent girl of 20 doing out at such an hour...
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An Old Flame And The Catcher In The Rye aka When I was the Asshat
“Don’t ever tell anybody anything, If you do, you start missing everybody,” — Holden Caulfield in The Catcher In The Rye. When I went to New York last weekend for work I asked my old boyfriend John to...
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A Cheating Boyfriend Drove Me To God
It’s 1995. I’m a 30-year old insomniac because it’s 2 a.m. and my boyfriend, Mr. Cruelly Handsome, should’ve been here two hours ago. He’s supposed to spend the night with me so I can follow him to the...
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What Happened after my Prom Dress Came off…
The press-on nails were particularly classy. (This is a sponsored post, but still kickass) It happened at midnight on a Saturday in May of 1982 just after prom. I’d pushed the screen out of my bedroom...
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Are You Turning the Asshat’s Bread Crumbs Into a Rustic Loaf?
Ahh that perennial relationship black hole of Calcutta, the Asshat. They don’t call when they say they will. They don’t show up when expected. They brood at social gatherings with friends and family....
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What the Asshats Say to Make You Stay!
One of the Sure Signs of an Abusive Relationship One of the tried-and-true tactics of a seasoned Asshat to keep you in the relationship with him or her is … drumroll please … the C-word. Not that...
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Answer 7 Questions to Discover if You’re in a CoDependent Relationship (with...
Hi Guys — I’m thrilled to announce I’ll be speaking at my first relationship seminar in April! Come see me there! Onward now: Welcome back to my #AsshatRecoveryProgram and happy 2015! In the new year I...
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A Beautiful Brunette was After my Man so I Pulled a George Costanza!
This isn’t Margo. Margo is more beautiful than this shrub. We’d had a really loving date. A lot of hand-holding, neck-nuzzling, lingering kisses. I was saying goodnight when I noticed a cloud cross his...
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He Had a Traumatic Car Accident and I Had to Grow Up
My Achilles has always been that I want everyone to like me. Even hardened criminals. Even Dance Moms and Real Housewives. Even Charlie Sheen. Approval and admiration are my serotonin highs. Or they...
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The Ghosts Of Boyfriends Past
It is my sophomore year of college circa 1985. I’m driving my lemon of a Ford Mustang on the mean streets of La Habra, California at 3 a.m. What is an intelligent girl of 20 doing out at such an hour...
View ArticleClik here to view.
An Old Flame And The Catcher In The Rye aka When I was the Asshat
“Don’t ever tell anybody anything, If you do, you start missing everybody,” — Holden Caulfield in The Catcher In The Rye. When I went to New York last weekend for work I asked my old boyfriend John to...
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A Cheating Boyfriend Drove Me To God
It’s 1995. I’m a 30-year old insomniac because it’s 2 a.m. and my boyfriend, Mr. Cruelly Handsome, should’ve been here two hours ago. He’s supposed to spend the night with me so I can follow him to the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
What Happened after my Prom Dress Came off…
The press-on nails were particularly classy. (This is a sponsored post, but still kickass) It happened at midnight on a Saturday in May of 1982 just after prom. I’d pushed the screen out of my bedroom...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Are You Turning the Asshat’s Bread Crumbs Into a Rustic Loaf?
Ahh that perennial relationship black hole of Calcutta, the Asshat. They don’t call when they say they will. They don’t show up when expected. They brood at social gatherings with friends and family....
View ArticleClik here to view.
What the Asshats Say to Make You Stay!
One of the Sure Signs of an Abusive Relationship One of the tried-and-true tactics of a seasoned Asshat to keep you in the relationship with him or her is … drumroll please … the C-word. Not that...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Answer 7 Questions to Discover if You’re in a CoDependent Relationship (with...
Hi Guys — I’m thrilled to announce I’ll be speaking at my first relationship seminar in April! Come see me there! Onward now: Welcome back to my #AsshatRecoveryProgram and happy 2015! In the new year I...
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A Beautiful Brunette was After my Man so I Pulled a George Costanza!
This isn’t Margo. Margo is more beautiful than this shrub. We’d had a really loving date. A lot of hand-holding, neck-nuzzling, lingering kisses. I was saying goodnight when I noticed a cloud cross his...
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He Had a Traumatic Car Accident and I Had to Grow Up
My Achilles has always been that I want everyone to like me. Even hardened criminals. Even Dance Moms and Real Housewives. Even Charlie Sheen. Approval and admiration are my serotonin highs. Or they...
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Not All Men Are Rapists
Yes. An inflammatory headline. Since the recent Steubenville rape case and excavating and writing about my own experience as a victim of attempted rape when I was in college, I’ve grown increasingly...
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“I See You’ve Made a New Friend”
And Other Memories of a Boy Gone too Soon Prince, David Bowie, Glen Frey and Alan Rickman made me think of a Gone Boy who might’ve left a legacy as bright as theirs. He would’ve turned fifty-one last...
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