Let’s start with a little review of some of the most recent Love Bytes blog posts. [Sorry – it’s an occupational hazard…… In the university environment, we are at the end of the semester right now.]
Passion (while important) is not the only thing needed for love. There are lots [...]
Tiger Woods's tattered image continues as fodder for late night talk show hosts, newspaper columnists and bloggers (like me), reminiscent of the energy surrounding the unfolding of Bill Clinton's relationship with Monica Lewinsky in 1998. The questions asked now mirror those surrounding Clinton: Why did these men - brilliant in [...]
In our previous blog, we described the first two subtypes of rapacious rescued partners. Here we describe the final two subtypes- the Rigid Perfectionist and the Self Centered. Please note that although we use feminine pronouns in our descriptions, rapacious partners are equally likely to be male.
The Rigid Perfectionist
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I'm absolutely flabbergasted. In a moment of idle internet surfing, I decided to google "happiness" just to see what the top results were.
Guess what? The happiness project occupies TWO of the TOP TEN results. One for the blog, The Happiness Project, one for' [...]
Cool contest on my Facebook page. Couldn’t post it here because of the BlogHer advertising policy. But…
(at least, I hope so – if you like contests and want a bright, new shiny smile it will be. If not, than take your satisfied white smirk and [...]
Entering a new relationship when you are still feeling emotionally connected to your previous partner is a complicated affair, and most self-help books, newspaper articles and blog posts strictly advise against entering such rebound relationships. Indeed, the average advice column will ordinarily contend that rebound relationships distract us from dealing [...]
Editor's Note: From the moment I began reading Ellen's To The Max, a blog about life and love with her son, Max, who had a stroke at birth. I immediately found myself captivated by her honesty, something that is sometimes lacking in the disability world. Read on for her [...]
I've never met my fellow PT blogger Sophia Dembling in person but consider her a friend of sorts. We met as members of one or another online writer communities that we both frequent because we have so many overlapping interests. She lives in Texas but her roots are pure' [...]
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[...]The real reason I’ve been frozen.
It recently came to my attention that some of my family members – family members who I don’t even see or speak to on a regular basis – are keeping up with my life through this blog.
Their conclusion, rightfully so, is that I am a [...]
Since there has been quite a bit of interest in the topic, I have decided to publish the second part to my recently begun "Science of Speed Dating" series here after all. If you previously read this evolutionary psychology discussion by fellow blogger Satoshi Kanazawa or stumbled over [...]
Over the next couple of days I intend to post a three-piece series on romantic desire (and the science of speed-dating). The first piece in this series, a study by MIT Professor and PT.com blogger Dan Ariely, is actually from an article I posted on my "ingenious monkey" [...]
Our previous blog reviewed two subtypes from the Helpless Rescued category the Depressed and the Dependent, and how and why white knights find them attractive. This blog describes the other two subtypes of the Helpless Rescued. Our upcoming blogs will explore the second category of rescued partners, the Rapacious Rescued.
The [...]
I am breaking the norm here and using this Blog Action Day for a cause not under the overall theme…
Months ago I received an e-mail from Katherine who works and lives at Home of the Swallow, for single mothers an their children in Northern Thailand. She wrote:
We established this home [...]
While doing a bit of reading today, I found a link to Catherine Larose’s Cafe Girl Chronicles blog, by way of an excerpt at the More magazine website. More magazine is aimed at the 40+ age female. I can remember when 40 seemed sort of old to me, [...]
One of you (thank you!) nominated me for a Bump Mommy Award for Best Single Mama Blogger.
And you know I totally want to win.
Vote for me (Ms. Single Mama – Option #3) here and help me erase the memory of my classmates throwing Reeses [...]
I just read a PT blog post by Bella DePaulo's about the inequities between being married and being single and I have to tell you, I think she's got a point. I'm glad Ms. DePaulo is speaking out about it.
I am a 48 yo old woman and I got married' [...]
A few weeks ago I got an e-mail inviting me to speak to four AP Lit classes.
The teacher, one Mr. David Rickert, had been turned onto my blog by his wife and thought my philosophies on dating and love could serve as a great guide for his students in [...]
In honor of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, this blog entry is an invitation to anyone and everyone who has ever been touched by intimate partner abuse - whether as a victim and/or abuser, as a child or an adult, as a sibling or a friend - to share your stories, [...]
Editor's Note: Welcome to the new Wednesday feature, Words of Wisdom Wednesday. We could all use a little more wisdom and advice in our lives, so each week, look to this blog for interviews and insights from experts, organizations and real people living, working and most of all, thriving in' [...]
Since this blog it titled LOVE Bytes and since the comments each week typically cover some facet of LOVE, it seems only reasonable that we spend a little time defining what LOVE actually is.
In last week’s Love Bytes blog [“Love: What Is It?”], we looked at a brief quiz about [...]
I said earlier that in this blog I would be discussing not only the wildness without but the wildness within - of our need for a wildness in our passions and creativity, and in our primal and loving relations with others.
Primal passions can initially seem scary. Sometimes they are. [...]
How can I spend two years of my life writing a new book on the subject of depression and then not tell you about it? I hope you can understand my desire to share my latest news with you in this blog. This brand new book arrived in bookstores across [...]
