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Ways to End Relationships (And Live to Tell…)

Posted on April 23rd, 2008 | 20 comments

When my girlfriend and I broke up last November I figured it was over for good. I’d been around the block enough times to know that rebounding with an ex was a bad idea. Still, when she texted me for booty in early March, I didn’t say no. And so began a rekindling that never [...]

There’s an Order to a Single Parent’s Relationship Universe

Posted on April 7th, 2008 | 14 comments

I’m in a relationship with my ex-wife and also with my two kids. Don’t worry, I don’t live on an FLDS compound in Texas or have some twisted perversion. I don’t mean that kind of relationship. I just figured when Honey & Lance held a contest and asked, What defines a successful relationship? And what [...]

Bringing Up the Bottom of Alltop

Posted on April 3rd, 2008 | 12 comments

Dad’s House was recently selected to be part of Alltop – a website that collects stories from “all the top sites” on the internet. It’s the brainchild of Will Mayall, Kathryn Henkens, and Guy Kawasaki, the noted Apple evangelist from back in the day. (I was at Xerox around that same time.) Single mom bloggers [...]

Putting the EX in SEX

Posted on March 5th, 2008 | 7 comments

An ex-girlfriend recently texted my cell phone asking for a booty call. I didn’t say no. She’d been sending me not-so dirty text messages on and off since we’d broken up a few months before, usually just saying hi, how r u, hope u r good. I sensed she wanted us back together, despite the [...]

Hooking Up – I Just Want To Be Your Lover

Posted on February 29th, 2008 | 8 comments

Unhooked: How Young Women Pursue Sex, Delay Love and Lose at Both, by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Laura Sessions Stepp gives a detailed look at the hookup culture that is permeating social scenes in American colleges and even some high schools.
Hooking up involves two people getting together for sex without commitment or attachment. Ms. Stepp suggests [...]