Abstaining: The Wait To Be Married by Coco Diong I’ve met more and more women who are abstaining from sex until they marry.  Some have been married, most had not.  But they all seem to share one common goal.  To hold their bodies sacred, until the real thing comes along and that means marriage.  Here […]

Men:  The Marrying Type by Nancy Carelle Despite the rising divorce statistics and the scattered mores of the day, there seems to still be hope for those who have not yet landed that special someone with potential for the “M” word.  Believe it or not, there are some highly desirable brothers out here looking for […]

Point Of View Rejected: From Rut To Reward by Janine Betts It was 5:00 on Friday and as usual, I was driving home from work, via the fried chicken route.  My car was filled with the sounds of The Temptations from the local radio station and I was reminded of a time when I felt […]

The Dating Chronicles The Knock  Jan stared out the hotel window as she contemplated her life.  Her best friend Kim was getting married again and as usual Jan was along for the ride.  Since the age of nine, Jan had been accompanying her friend on all of her love adventures, and had experienced few of […]

SingleScenes by Sarah Smart Q.  I recently went out with a guy for the second time,who treated me like a princess.  He took me to a candlelit dinner on the roof of a ritzy high-rise office building, and treated me to an exquisite dinner under the stars.  He’s really a good-looking guy, but I ended […]

From The Locker Room Lessons – “Now I Know…” The Men: Chad:  “I feel real guilty about a relationship I got involved in where I knew the woman was too nice for what I had in mind.  She was hoping for marriage or at best a serious relationship and all I wanted was fun and […]

Dating Danger How Safe Are You? by Lisa Laird Sherry had just been told by her doctor that she had contracted a STD and she cried uncontrollably for one hour straight.  She was inconsolable as she kept repeating over and over that she was in a monogamous relationship…and how could this happen to her?  But […]

Single Parenting When There’s No Father Around by Lori Barkson I was visiting a friend recently when her teenage son cursed her and slammed out of the door after she told him he couldn’t go out.  As I listened to her lament about her problems with him and how she felt he would be a […]

Could You Use An Extreme Dating Makeover For 2020? by Kate Taylor Do You Have BBD? (Brittle Backbone Disease) The most common reason for having too-soon sex in a relationship is out of fear that if you don’t, your boyfriend will get bored and find someone else.  That fear comes from Brittle Backbone Disease.  This […]

Personal Finance A Budget: An End To Financial Stress by Lacey Michelle Most of us live counting down the days until payday.  We can’t wait to get the paycheck so we can buy that new outfit or go out with our friends on the weekend, but as money comes in from our jobs,  it goes […]