I am re-posting this because for whatever reason, this week has been the week of heartsick “what should I do?”s involving romantic relationships.
Admittedly, I get all sorts of mail from all sorts of people. Friend mail. Blog mail. Book…
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advice: the dreaded “why aren’t you two engaged?”
June 28, 2010
QUESTION FROM A GREEK TRAGEDY READER [Let's call her Amy]: I’ve been dating my current boyfriend since November 2008. I’m 30 and he’s 38. In August of 2009, after roughly 9 months of dating, he told me that instead of…
meat candy + the sex that wasn’t
June 15, 2010
I totally wasn’t planning on writing about flanken, in June nonetheless, but there it is. It keeps sneaking into everything I write. The only way out is through, so here we are. I feel compelled to share that I once…
the bowdabra b(l)ow job
May 11, 2010
This post is about packages. The kind you give and the kind you receive. The one for which you sometimes buy silk boxers, mostly out of guilt after purchasing one thing too many on an "I’m just browsing" day. So,…
assuming he’ll pay: guilty freeloader syndrome
May 4, 2010
QUESTION FROM A GREEK TRAGEDY READER: I’ve enjoyed your blog for years, and I’d love your opinion on an issue I’m having with a guy I’m dating. We are both in our mid 20′s in professional school. Even though I…
advice: I’ve caught him in a lie, now what?
April 20, 2010
QUESTION FROM A GREEK TRAGEDY READER: Ok, so I have a boyfriend, and we’ve been together for about 8 months now. We worked together before we started dating for about 6 months. We started dating August 1st and moved in…
long-distance love: what would you do?
March 23, 2010
QUESTION FROM A GREEK TRAGEDY READER: I am writing to ask for some of your wit and wisdom. I started dating a great guy about three months ago. Right from the start, things clicked. On our first date, a dog…
500 days of summer in spring
March 10, 2010
500 Days of Summer deserved to be nominated. During our impromptu Oscar gathering, I went a little Rainman. "Write it down. Did you write it down? An Education and 500 Days of Summer. Now." Then I repeated it. And again.…









August 13, 2010
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