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Goodbye… Hello!

I have been struggling to define the relationships I appear to have acquired over the last few months. Back in October last year, I wrote about friends who have sex with each other. Back then, I was quite clear in my mind what those relationships were. These days, I’m not so sure. One of my […]
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Can you handle it?

Not everyone’s right for us. Can you take rejection gracefully? One of the good things about growing older and feeling more comfortable in one’s own skin is discovering the ability to say no. Many of us ladies have been taught to be people-pleasers from the year dot; do you want to be loved, little girl? […]
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Romancing the Boy

Valentine’s Day came and went quietly in my house. I spent it with the love of my life who gave me a handmade card of a single heart — the six year-old version of minimalist style. As usual, Commercial Love Day was everywhere I went, and plastered all over the Internet. Everyone was urged to […]
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Older women: a Finishing School for Sex?

I blame Anne Bancroft. There she was, looking like a sexually sublime schoolmistress in The Graduate, asking the gauche Dustin Hoffman “Would you like me to seduce you?”, and the die was cast. All older woman can teach younger men how to become better in bed, a fact which arrives in the post along with […]
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Navigating the Silences

I find online dating one part intriguing and two parts mystifying. Mystifying in that I’m still not sure what the protocol is when it comes to communicating electronically. As one young man exclaimed the other night, “You actually remember a time without the internet!” Yes, young Padawan*, I most certainly do. However, I married very […]
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