My friend Scarlet is still plugging away with the online dating. She’s been getting a lot of responses from Singlesnet, but some of them are odd. For example, a guy came right out and asked her about a friends with benefits situation. I told her that guys will throw something like that out there thinking that the odds are on their side – eventually someone will be interested.
This morning she sent me an email telling me to check her Singlesnet  message box. (She has me check the interesting ones, because sometimes it’s good to have an extra set of eyes …read more

Remember my friend who was in a “friends with benefits” situation with a friend who had suddenly met someone else – and felt it was cool to gush to her about the new girl?
Well, new girl is still in the picture – but last night, the guy stopped by for a brief visit to my friend’s place, and in the forty minutes he was there, they managed to get naked – again – followed by him getting all weird, and making an abrupt exit.
At this point, I’ve stopped blaming the guy. Clearly, he has issues. But my friend? Glutton for …read more

So, you may recall my mentioning a situation where a friend was in a friends-with-benefits type situation with a guy that just decided he has found true love – and was telling her all about it.
They haven’t seen each other in a while – they still talk often, but he is a musician by trade and currently on tour.
In a really freaky twist of fate, my friend, also a journalist, was invited to a press junket out on the west coast the exact same weekend he will be there. Any other time, she’d jump at the chance for a free …read more

A very close friend of mine has had an on/off thing with a close guy friend for years. They are “buddies” – except every few months they fool around.
She’s completely in love with him, and has told him – he has gently told her that’s not what he’s about, and things have fallen off…and things have started off again. Repeat.
Said girl is obviously at fault for letting herself continuously go down that road to hurt..but when said guy sits at lunch and tells her about the awesome new girl he is seeing, does he not realize that said girl may …read more