Advice Goddess | Thursday, July 5,2012

Mourning breath

At 19, I married the first man I slept with. He died last year after 23 years of marriage, and within a month, I was in a new relationship with a wonderful man I met online. I’m certainly still

Advice Goddess | Thursday, June 28,2012

Captain Hookup

By Amy Alkon

This guy I’m having a casual thing with is quick-witted, is droll, and makes me laugh hard, and I just LOVE having sex with him. Afterward, however, he pretty much ignores me until we hook up ag

Advice Goddess | Thursday, June 21,2012

Thrilla In Vanilla

By Amy Alkon

My best friend is a guy. We have tons in common and have conversations that are lively, honest, and deep. He’s basically everything I’ve ever wanted in my future husband, but he has an inf

Advice Goddess | Thursday, June 14,2012

Motherly shove

By Amy Alkon

I am in my 20s and, for eight months, have been seeing a girl who might very well be “the one.” The problem is she wants to meet my mother, who is beyond controlling. She plays a game with

Advice Goddess | Thursday, June 7,2012

We’ll always have parasites

By Amy Alkon

My boyfriend of two months is a gem, but his house is a horror. The fridge and bathroom are disgusting, and the whole place is seriously messy. There’s this eerie feeling that the house was form

Advice Goddess | Thursday, May 31,2012

Wedding her whistle

By Amy Alkon

I just turned 26, and I’m ready to be married. My previous two boyfriends dragged their feet and then said the blood-boiling line: “I will marry you…someday.” I met a guy onli

Advice Goddess | Thursday, May 24,2012

Attila the Honey

By Amy Alkon

I asked my boyfriend for his email password so I could look at a message he’d mentioned. He grabbed my laptop and said he’d log in and forward it to me. He is a good guy and has never give

Advice Goddess | Thursday, May 17,2012

I get a kickball out of you

By Amy Alkon

My boyfriend of three months is 22, and so am I. He tells me he loves me but is horrible about returning texts and calls and following through with dates. (He seems to ditch me if something better com

Advice Goddess | Thursday, May 10,2012

Mused and abused

By Amy Alkon

After my girlfriend and I split up, I wrote a creative nonfiction piece about our breakup (changing some identifying details). I published it on a popular blog and linked to it on Facebook. We’r

Advice Goddess | Thursday, May 3,2012

Baby makes flee

By Amy Alkon

When I married five years ago, I was on the fence about having kids. I thought some parental gene might kick in, but it never did. Now, at 40, I’ve accepted that a childless marriage is best for