Single? You are most definitely not alone. Singletons now outnumber married people in all age brackets. Admittedly, the stats don’t take into account unmarried partnerships, but the fact remains—people no longer live in panic or feel like failures if they are thirty and unmarried. Or forty. Or fifty. Or sixty. Etc. You get the idea. [read more]
Why Hire a Dating Coach?
I sat on a panel of dating experts recently, and someone in the audience asked: “Why should I hire a dating coach? I’ve got tons of friends that help me out.” I explained that your friends, although well intentioned, are attached to your outcome. They know you well. What they tell you is often either [read more]
Relationship Lessons from the Not-So-Crazy Cat Lady
Animal lovers usually enjoy projecting human motives and traits onto their pets. We pretend we know what they’re thinking—in human terms. Although our cats, dogs, parrots, horses, and guinea pigs are probably chuckling quietly whenever we do that, there is still much to learn—as humans—from the animal world. Animals don’t second guess themselves. They live [read more]
Set Your Dating GPS
You have two weeks for the ultimate road trip. You know you want to end up in Santa Barbara, visiting your old college friend and soaking in the Southern California groove. You are starting from San Francisco, with a rental car, a cooler full of iced tea, Fig Newtons, and grapes, and a GPS. You’ve [read more]
6 Great Reasons to Date a Health Enthusiast
Most of us have personal health goals. Some of us have an easier time reaching those goals than others. Does it matter who you partner with when it comes to health? Well, actually…it can. Mary, an alternative health practitioner who was successfully treating her own auto-immune disease with nutrition, fell in love with, and married, [read more]
Stack the Love Deck in Your Favor by Sharing Core Values
A little over a year ago my client, Jen, fell in love—hard—with Paul. Paul was exciting, smart, handsome, confident, and he adored her. Paul’s work was demanding, and on weekends he loved to be outside, taking adventures with Jen. They would fly out to Wyoming to ski, they’d hike through the Great Smokies for a [read more]
Look Up–You Don’t Want to Miss It!
You may be curious about what I meant in my title by “you don’t want to miss it….” “Miss what,” you ask? Anything! Everything! Great shoes on sale. A cloud in the shape of a giraffe. The love of your life. There’s a hilarious meme that swept social media recently. It’s a photo of a [read more]
Being Open to Love
George Sand, the French novelist whose real name was Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin, was never at a loss for love, romance, or a thrilling liaison with a man of notable talent and stature (such as Frederic Chopin, for example). She once wrote: “There is only one happiness in life—to love and be loved.” For people, like Sand, [read more]