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Dating & Parenting
by a Single Dad


Drunk Texting Marriage Proposal

Posted on November 5th, 2009 | 28 comments

I go on a lot of bad dates. At least those are the ones I tend to blog about. Sill, proof does exist that not all of my first dates suck. A woman I recently went on two dates with texted me at 2am.
She texted: Sleelunb???
I texted: Huh? What’s up?
She texted: I’m drunk!!!
Gotta love a [...]

From Sizzle to Fizzle Before the Second Date

Posted on November 3rd, 2009 | 24 comments

I had a rockin’ date this past summer. I saw a woman in a wine bar, tried to chat her up, failed miserably – but then got her number a week later from a friend of hers who it turns out I knew. Apparently, he did some serious wingman post-op triage and talked me up [...]

Crashing a Parents Party on Halloween

Posted on November 2nd, 2009 | 17 comments

My teen son decided to trick-or-treat this Halloween with a new group of friends. He’s in eighth grade and they’re in seventh, and I didn’t know any of these kids. When I dropped my son off, I made sure to go up to the house and meet the parents.
What do you know, there was a [...]

Couch Sex

Posted on October 28th, 2009 | 22 comments

I don’t know what it is about the leather couch in my TV room, but women love having sex on it. Yes, I said women. Cut me some slack. I’ve been divorced ten years, and I’ve owned this couch for seven. I’ve dated more than one woman in that time. (Please know that any couch [...]

Tit for Tat Coparenting

Posted on October 22nd, 2009 | 8 comments

There’s give and take in every relationship, whether you’re dating, married, or divorced.
When you have kids, a nice goal is to share the coparenting workload.
Tit for tat.
But what happens when the tit for tat reciprocation falls flat?
Head on over to the Hot Dads blog for a look at:
Tit for Tat Coparenting
(If that pre-programmed link doesn’t [...]

Is Divorce a Crime? David Brooks Might Think So

Posted on October 21st, 2009 | 21 comments

I recently had the pleasure of hearing New York Times Op-Ed columnist David Brooks speak in Silicon Valley as part of the Celebrity Forum Speaker Series. Let me just say – I was shocked at some of the things David Brooks said about divorce.
Or rather, things he didn’t say about divorce… I’ll explain in a [...]

Divorce Separation – Living Together Under One Roof

Posted on October 14th, 2009 | 25 comments

My wife and I were married for 9 years and had 2 children when we first talked about getting divorced. We’d already been through three different stints of couples counseling to address various issues. But some differences between us were irreconcilable, and we felt it was time to separate.
Ten months later, I moved out.
We lived [...]