Advice Goddess | Thursday, March 7,2013

Madame ovary

My wife needs a medical test that will involve her being naked in unflattering positions in front of another person, possibly male. I know she won’t enjoy this and it certainly isn’t sexua

Advice Goddess | Thursday, February 28,2013

Gratitude adjustment

By Amy Alkon

My boyfriend of three months seems wonderful. He is attentive and tries hard to please me, even in small ways (like always making sure I get tea I like when we’re out). Soon after we started dat

Advice Goddess | Thursday, February 21,2013

Hawaii five-no

By Amy Alkon

Ten years ago, my friend and I met our husbands on the same night (they were friends who challenged us to a game of pool), and we both got married the same year. We all pledged to spend our 10th anniv

Advice Goddess | Thursday, February 14,2013

Indignation wants to be free

By Amy Alkon

What are your thoughts on gently dissuading a person from making a total fool of herself on Facebook? A woman I know had her husband leave her for the woman he was cheating on her with. She’s be

Advice Goddess | Thursday, January 31,2013

Vroom with a view

By Amy Alkon

I’m a 34-year-old woman, dating a 27-year-old guy for three months. We have a great time together, but he’s balking at making an official commitment, meaning he doesn’t want to call

Advice Goddess | Thursday, January 17,2013

Talk blurty to me

By Amy Alkon

Why are women so worked up about hearing “those three little words,” and why must they turn them into such a minefield? If a man says “I love you” too soon, he gets dumped beca

Advice Goddess | Thursday, January 3,2013

New kid on the bloc

By Amy Alkon

I spent the last two years in the Peace Corps in Eastern Europe and just committed to another year. Before my assignment, I was dating a decent guy, but I told him it was temporary. When I was home on

Advice Goddess | Thursday, December 20,2012

Unlucky in shove

By Amy Alkon

My husband was a heavy-drinking, drug-taking skirt-chaser who worked only sporadically, so I divorced him three years ago. He quit drinking and drugs, renounced skirt chasing, and was constantly profe

Advice Goddess | Thursday, December 13,2012

The son almost never rises

By Amy Alkon

Two years ago, after dating a wonderful lady for a year, I married her and moved in with her. The problem is her 23-year-old son. He lives with us, has never held a job, doesn’t go to school, an

Advice Goddess | Thursday, December 6,2012

Happiest place on girth

By Amy Alkon

I started taking medication that makes me fat – about 80 pounds overweight, which is a lot on a 5’7” female frame. Cutting calories and exercising will not change this, and I cannot