Jim likes to joke that we never had a first date. I think we had something better. After all, how many ambitious career women in the 1980s get rescued by a bona fide knight in shining armor?
Ron Serrano was certainly not what my father had in mind when he thought about my marrying. I was a conventional middle-class Jewish girl, Ron the brown-skinned son of Mexican immigrants, raised Catholic.
Richard’s math class was the hour before mine; we shared the same room as well as the same instructor. One Valentine’s Day I found a note in my locker directing me to look out the window of the math class, where I would find my Valentine gift.
I always suspected that Fred’s father thought we were too young and too serious, since we had made plans to marry and depart for Africa as missionaries as soon as we grew up.
In her traditional white satin wedding gown, Ann Belkov made a stately entrance into the wedding hall. But when she saw her guests, she threw her arms out and cried, “AT LAST!” For, at 75, she was a first-time bride.
In her traditional white satin wedding gown, Ann Belkov made a stately entrance into the wedding hall. But when she saw her guests, she threw her arms out and cried, “AT LAST!” For, at 75, she was a first-time bride.
Please, go ahead and settle into yourself. Your personality is what it is. Don't waste another minute cringing about your social awkwardness. Just be who you are. You're an introvert. You're never really going to totally fix this, but it's okay.
I have an embarrassing suspicion that there’s magical thinking involved too, like the idea that if I’m not married, I won’t get to live happily ever after. None of those fairy tales ever said that the maiden aunt got to live happily ever after. Usually she was eaten by a wolf.
Obnoxious Question No. 1: "What's wrong with you?" This is usually paraphrased as "Why aren't you married?"—but we singles know what you really mean.
I know that a friendship between a married man and a single woman can be tricky. Which really makes me appreciate my guy friends—and their wives—that much more. I’ve learned, though, that each relationship is different. This part-time-husband thing wasn’t planned; it just sort of developed organically.
Amy Webb’s list of the characteristics she sought in a man was incredibly detailed—72 demands! But it turned out that what men searching the Internet supposedly wanted is quite limited: cleavage, fun, and to feel tall.
"Data, A Love Story" is a riveting book, if only because it’s fun to read about a tech-savvy woman who decides to take charge of her own destiny by gaming online dating.
We have stayed too long on dates we didn’t want to be on just so we wouldn’t be seen as too picky, difficult, and whatever other hostile descriptions single women are sometimes labeled.