Advice Goddess | Thursday, February 28,2013

Gratitude adjustment

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

Advice Goddess | Thursday, November 29,2012

Jenny from the blocked

By Amy Alkon

I appreciate that you tell it like it is instead of telling people what they want to hear. I heard you on the radio saying that an online dating site isn’t a very good venue for women over 40 wh