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Many hands make light work « One Fine Day — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:22:00 +0000

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Comment on On Being Single, Happily by Caroline

Caroline — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:36:23 +0000

Oh I absolutely agree that some people do need that single period. But I was trying to point out to Kess that she needn’t feel that her relationship can’t be healthy if she didn’t go through a single period. For many people perhaps they need that, but it isn’t the only option to developing self-reliance and independence.

Comment on APW Book Tour: Atlanta by RJ

RJ — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:08:40 +0000

Maybe that’s a sign that your next book should be about women balancing career and businesss…

Comment on On Being Single, Happily by Class of 1980

Class of 1980 — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:00:11 +0000

Also agree that not everyone needs to be single. We really do forget sometimes how individual our paths and needs are.

My grandparents met in high school and their marriage is still my best model of what a marriage should be.

Comment on On Being Single, Happily by Class of 1980

Class of 1980 — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:58:10 +0000

My God. I know that feeling. That is the most brilliant thing I’ve heard today.

Comment on On Being Single, Happily by Class of 1980

Class of 1980 — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:57:01 +0000

It means ur doing it right. ;)

Comment on Book Tour By Amtrak: New Orleans to Houston by Class of 1980

Class of 1980 — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:48:10 +0000

It was a revelation for me also when I moved to a small town in the mountains. If you live in a neighborhood comprised of locals, they wave to you when your cars meet. If you live in a neighborhood where the people don’t wave, then they’re newcomers. Small town people are used to the personal touch.

Isn’t it wonderful to go different places and see the differences?

Comment on Ask Meg (and she’ll ask someone else): Sex, Waiting, and Weddings by DNA

DNA — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:36:52 +0000

I know this post is old, and maybe this wasn’t even the intention in the first place, but I just want to put it out there that kinks and degrading forms of sex are not the same thing. Just wanted to sprinkle some kink-positiveness. :)

Comment on On Being Single, Happily by Diane

Diane — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:25:54 +0000

Re the three possible date outcomes, so true! The way I used to put it was that the average guy (and, I’d assume, the average girl) is, in fact, average. I also had some TERRIBLE first dates that I’m grateful for because I can still laugh over them, including the guy who basically gave me a 45 minute monologue, then paused, and without a touch of irony said, “I’ve been talking a lot about myself. What do you want to know about me?” Or the worst date ever, with a guy who spent the first ten minutes telling racist jokes. I’m ashamed to say that I was so thoroughly shocked that I was actually hearing that in circa 2003 that I didn’t throw my drink in his face or storm out, though the date was brief and not repeated. I think, though, that those relationships that are really good but just missing something are the toughest. I dated a kind, caring man for 15 months and the best reason I could give him for ending it was that I just couldn’t imagine sitting around having breakfast with our kids someday. It takes more courage to end a relationship that is basically good but just not quite right than it does to be quiet and go on so for you women who are right in the thick of it, I’m sending up the very warmest of thoughts. May your bravery be rewarded, after a time of sadness, with a greater depth of happiness than you knew possible.

Comment on On Being Single, Happily by Giggles

Giggles — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:35:31 +0000

Just yesterday I had the opportunity to tell the teenage young women at church about how my plan to get married at 23 and have a kid by 24 didn’t work out and I’m so much the better for it and happier than I ever could’ve been if my plan had been allowed to work. And that if I hadn’t been happy with who I was when my husband came around, if I’d been moping around and woe is me-ing that I was single, there never would’ve been a second email (we met online) and we never would’ve been us. It was my happiness with the opportunity I was given to grow and struggle and learn on my own that led to the happiness I have with the opportunity to grow and struggle and learn with him right now.