Real stories about dating and relationships in New York City. Truth is more interesting than fiction.

How far would you travel for potential love?

I’ll admit it, I’ve been sucking at the online dating thing lately. To be honest, I’ve just been overwhelmed with life, work and health stuff since the beginning of the month. I want to date. I just haven’t been making the time. Instead, I’ve been letting messages sit in my online dating inbox, unanswered. Which [...]

This is Why People Hate Dating

I was supposed to have a date this weekend. And another tonight. Supposed to. They were going to be my first 2 dates in months. But no. Both were cancelled. And this is why (some) people hate dating. I don’t, for the record, hate dating. No usually.  But some days… Here’s the story: I crawled [...]

Catching Up and Taking Stock

I called a friend, someone I hadn’t spoken with in a while.  He’s been busy, I’ve been busy. It happens. He asked how I was doing and I told him that I was finally feeling better and almost unpacked and fully settled in to the new apartment. Then, he asked about work and told him [...]

How Many Alcoholic Drinks Do You Have On a Single Date?

This week’s poll is stolen, verbatim, from Glamour’s Smitten column. Yep, I’m that shameless. Seriously, I just thought it was an awesome idea for a poll and I wanted to use it.  Giving them full credit for the idea, of course. I’ve written, many times, about the fact that I’m a total lightweight. I don’t [...]

Fine Isn’t Good Enough for Me

So this is a story inside of a story, written by a still-very-sick woman. It may or may not make any sense. A friend came by with soup and juice, for which I was grateful. More for the company than for the soup and juice.  She mentioned a couple dates she’d been on recently and [...]