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What If Your Significant Other Doesn't Want Children?

On the way to dinner, my boyfriend and I passed a mother and adorable toddler. We cooed and waved as we walked by, and after a moment, my boyfriend asked "Would you date someone who didn't want to have kids?" The ques…
The Interracial Deal Breaker

"I can't be with a woman that has been with a black man." I stared at him, dumbfounded. What difference does it make if I've dated a black man, or not? Better yet, what is my dating history to you? He's a good friend o…
Meeting Mommy Dearest

I've only been in a few serious relationships that have lasted a decent amount of time. The common factor in each one was that their moms loved me (and still probably do even post-break up). I've had this uncanny abilit…
Unexpected Deal Breakers

There's been a few posts about preferences and likes and dislikes recently. It's been stated before (and it's true) that we all have a sort of mental checklist, however vague it may be, of things that will attract us t…
Lost in Translation

The other night I met a sexy French man at a bar near my apartment. It only took about three or four shouts of whaaaat?! over the blaring speakers for me to realize that he was trying to tell me his name was Pierre. Pi…
Top Five Deal-breakers

Everyone has them. That one thing someone can do that just ticks you off and sends you to the point of no return. Maybe yours is ‘flakiness’ or ‘frugal’ but everyone has at least one deal-breake…
Dealbreaker Re-visited: Did I Judge Too Soon?

I recently wrote a post about a boy that I dated in high school who had an awful name. For the sake of this discussion we'll call him Barry, even though Barry is a perfectly fine name. (I had a teacher once named Barr…
Am I Too Boring?

I'm almost 24 years old. I'm just about finished with my last semester of college and ready to go on into the real world. Along with tackling what the world has to offer, I'm also ready to find myself someone who I can…
On Deal Breakers

Everyone's talking about deal breakers. These are the qualities your dates have, that would lead you to call it off completely, no matter what other qualities they might possess. US Weekly recently asked celebrities…
Just A Quickie: Paranoia, The Catalyst

Have you ever been in a relationship with a severely paranoid person? They snoop through your phone/things, constantly accuse you of cheating, and over-analyze absolutely every situation, subsequently leading to huge arg…