Dear Feisty, Recently my husband and I moved to another state where he’s completing a trade. He’s yet to start work and in the meantime, he’s bored and has too much time on his hands. He’s tried to keep busy with stuff around the house but I recently discovered in my computer history over the [...]
Dear Feisty, I’m 32 and my current boyfriend is 36. We’ve been together for a year and I’m starting to notice a number of things about him that I overlooked in the beginning that don’t seem quite right, but I’m not sure if I’m just overreacting. When we started dating he always seemed to be [...]
Being a single woman looking for love is daunting no matter where you live, but in major cities like New York, Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles, dating can be almost impossible. Many of the women residing in these cities who wish to marry but remain single well into their 30′s often become jaded and desperate [...]
There is a symbiotic association between toxic people and their addiction to toxic relationships. Whether they are romantic, the co-dependent addiction feeder/pusher type, or the superficial “I’ll scratch your ass if you wipe mine” pseudo-friendships people hang onto for appearance sake in keeping up with the Joneses. A toxic relationship cannot subsist without some type [...]
I‘m not a subtle person. And I simply couldn’t be if I tried. True, certain people don’t like me, but there is one facet in their disregard for me that is uniform across the board in my dealings with these spiteful jackasses. They respect me and they stay the hell out of my way. Whether [...]
Saying no is a tall order for many people. They are conditioned to be frightened of the perceived consequence of irreparably damaging a relationship or hurting the other person’s feelings by saying no at the expense of their own comfort. What many people don’t realize is that saying no can actually provide them with a [...]
Valentine’s Day is about romance. It’s about paying tribute to an institution that celebrates the custom of romantic love, courtship and the time-honored tradition of chivalry. That seems to be a very tired concept for a lot of people these days. So it makes perfect sense these very same people don’t possess the taste and [...]
I hear the same story all the time. Girl meets guy, girl ends up with guy. Girl and guy play house, share rent, the gas bill and a pseudo-promising relationship. Then boom, they break up and 3 months later, the guy marries someone else. I never wait for a man to decide on me. And [...]
Dear Feisty, I love your blog and everything you say I understand, but I was not raised to play games with men and be a “strong” person in my relationships. I’ve been dating a guy for 5 years and we had a baby six months ago. I was terrified of what my body would look [...]
Everybody’s a critic. Especially ourselves. People always have more to say than we want to hear and we’re often never short on opinions or criticism. What’s important for you is knowing for yourself what is true and valid and not allowing others, or yourself, to twist, manipulate and otherwise devalue your own perceptions of who [...]