Advice: Why do bastards change into ideal partners?

Mel asks “Why is it that men can totally transform themselves into the ideal partner when they finally fall in love, or meet ‘the one’, especially, if they’ve been bastards to their previous girlfriends? Do they really keep up their good...
Return On Investment in Relationships

Return On Investment in Relationships

Relationships are about give and take. I don’t expect anyone to stand there taking scores because this in itself creates a negative atmosphere for a relationship, however, in healthy relationships there is an overall healthy balance of give and take without...

Get Voting for Baggage Reclaim!

OK, I had no idea that I’d even been nominated but Baggage Reclaim is up for Best UK Blog in the 2007 Weblog Awards! Please go there (link and vote each day till November 8th! Jaysus I can’t believe I’m so late to this one but hopefully we can make...
Are we waiting for a fairy tale happy ending?

Are we waiting for a fairy tale happy ending?

I recently wrote in my column about the author Josephine Cox, esteemed peddler of women’s fiction pondering whether her and similar authors “have unwittingly failed a whole generation of women by seducing them with false ideals of love and romance…”....