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Single Parent Dating
& Parenting Teens


How to Get Your Teens to the Dinner Table

Posted on November 13th, 2009 | 14 comments

How do you get teenagers to the dinner table?
Sure, they’re hungry all the time. But that doesn’t mean they want to eat with dad or mom or siblings. After all, they have distractions – sports, friends, Facebook, iPod, video games, etc.
Some food gurus will have you believe the way to get teens to the dinner [...]

Free Breakfast

Posted on November 11th, 2009 | 19 comments

My local grocery store gives me a bazillion coupons every time I check out and pay. I guess they want me to feel like I won the lottery, hoping I’ll come back and spend even more the next time. With savings! Of course.
The coupons are usually for products I never buy, or stuff I don’t [...]

Male and Female Dating Perspectives

Posted on November 10th, 2009 | 27 comments

A couple I know met like this: he came into the store where she worked to buy things for his work, and saw she was hot, sexy and confident. They flirted and chatted and swapped phone numbers, started dating, and now they’ve been a happy couple for more than two years.
The other day, the guy [...]

Drunk Texting Marriage Proposal

Posted on November 5th, 2009 | 29 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 | 24 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 [...]