Advice Goddess | Thursday, May 17,2012

I get a kickball out of you

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

Advice Goddess | Thursday, April 26,2012

Vulture capital

By Amy Alkon

This woman and I have been friends for a year. She’s a free spirit of sorts with zero boundaries. In the time I’ve known her, she’s been married and divorced and then engaged, and no

Advice Goddess | Thursday, April 19,2012

Inner booty

By Amy Alkon

In your answer to “Dismayed,” the 32-year-old woman with a Ph.D. who was unimpressed by the men she was meeting, I was struck by how cold and calculating it all sounds: Women evolved to ma

Advice Goddess | Thursday, April 12,2012

Carpy diem

By Amy Alkon

My boyfriend and I are college juniors, happily together 10 months and living together for five. An article I read said it’s healthy to argue with your partner, and I got a little worried. We so

Advice Goddess | Thursday, April 5,2012

waking thoughts poem

By Amy Alkon

waking thoughts poem This poem was recently emailedto Illinois Times anonymously.I gained the sender’s OK to printit. I only altered it to fit the formI use in this space, and took theliberty to

Advice Goddess | Thursday, April 5,2012

You lite up my life

By Amy Alkon

This man I’ve been dating didn’t want anything serious. I don’t either. I explained that I just wanted to hang out and have fun. We were going out several times a week, sleeping toge

Advice Goddess | Thursday, March 29,2012

Manure and wife

By Amy Alkon

My fiancee insists on having our wedding at “THE most magical place to get married,” this beautiful lake resort. Her family’s well-off, but having it there creates a financial hardsh

Advice Goddess | Thursday, March 22,2012

Bodies at rust

By Amy Alkon

I’m a recently divorced 40-something woman, now dating again, and I’m wondering what the guidelines are on how long to wait to have sex. I’m not interested in casual sex, but I have