SingleScenes by Sarah Smart Q.  I am currently dating a woman who works with me.  I really like her and enjoy being with her.  But, there is also another woman at work I’ve always admired but never approached.  Recently, at an office party, she slipped me a note expressing her interest and her phone number.  […]

SingleScenes by Sarah Smart Q. Do you think that a guy could really be into you emotionally, and compliment every woman he sees in your presence?  It really comes off like flirting and I think it’s disrespectful.  But he insists that he’s just being “friendly” and I’m displaying jealousy when I object to his behavior.  […]

SingleScenes by Sarah Smart Q.   I recently discovered that my live-in boyfriend of five years had slept with a visiting cousin at my home.  I’m more upset with my cousin than I am with my boyfriend because I believe she seduced him, and he was just being a man.  I put her out and allowed […]

SingleScenes by Sarah Smart Q.   My boyfriend proposed four months ago and we set the wedding date for October.  We were so happy until two weeks ago when I ran into him in a club dancing with an ex-girlfriend.  After an angry confrontation, he confessed that he still loved her and he called our wedding […]

SingleScenes by Sarah Smart Q.  I have never felt so betrayed! For two years, I was involved with a guy I cared a lot for.  During that period, my best friend despised him and did quite a bit to discourage me from the relationship.  She always accused him of cheating and suspected him of trying […]

Viewpoint: My 7 “Romance” Rules For The New Year… by M.K. Allison I Will Not Ignore That Inner Voice.   Last year, I could have saved myself a lot of grief and heartache, if I heeded that small inner voice, which is always pure and practical.  I was constantly in and out of trouble because […]

SingleScenes by Sarah Smart Q.  I’m engaged to a guy who is still very friendly with his ex-wife, because they have kids together, and I’ve been pretending that it doesn’t bother me, but it does.  I also don’t like the way she coos at him or acts at family gatherings.  She is still close to […]

SingleScenes by Sarah Smart Q.  My best friend stopped speaking to me and ended our relationship because I asked her boyfriend to dance when we were all out at a party.  She says I was rude and inappropriate and I disrespected her.  I tried to explain that it was only a dance.  I apologized, but […]

SingleScenes by Sarah Smart Q.  My boyfriend gave me an engagement ring after proposing to me on a double date with my best friend. However, a week later, he called and asked for it back after we had a very heated argument.  I refused, and he’s threatening to sue me to get his ring.  I […]

Love For The Holidays It Can Happen To You! by Cheryl Lakes I usually begin to get nervous about the holidays on Halloween night after I give out the last piece of candy to the last batch of kids and realize that the real holidays are coming and I have no one to cozy up […]