dating-related vignettes from christmas day

My older child, arriving:
KID
You look great! (and then, in tone of surprise) You look sexy!
ME
Thanks! And I didn’t even wear my push-up bra.
KID
You have a push-up bra?????
ME
Of course I do! I’m dating!
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Plan C really did come for Christmas.
It [...]

a christmas/hanuka present for my readers

The gift is a quotation from my gifted 70+ psychiatrist.
Today, Christmas Eve, we were discussing ‘rough sex.’ He was trying to define what, in his view, was acceptable and what was not.
He wanted to make sure that no lover had ever hit me on the face.
No way! I [...]

the invitation network

1. On a happy whim, I invited Juliette of rendezvouswithromeos to come for Christmas. For a few hours it looked at if she might actually be able to, and I even sent her photographs of my living room, showing the rug where the serious, comfortable, queensize air mattress would be placed, and [...]

44 days into the relationship

the gift that keeps on giving
Twelve days ago I had a pedicure and a manicure for T – on Plan C’s dime.
As you probably don’t remember, Plan C gave me an extremely generous gift certificate to a spa for my birthday last spring. He had hoped I would have my first [...]

three of us in the relationship

Well, there were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.
– Diana, Princess of Wales, in an interview, November 1995
Poor Diana! I miss her and regret [...]

affectionate words from my nearest & dearest

Conversation with my almost-deaf mother:
MIMI: I’m going steady.
MY MOTHER: You’re what?
MIMI: Going steady.
MY MOTHER: Say that again.
MIMI: [...]