In the previous episode I had my neighbor Jake Simon on my podcast, so this week I brought on his wife Terri Simon to talk about their 21-year marriage. Terri wasn’t looking for a relationship when they first met. She was also hesitant because of his age (Jake is 8 years younger). In this episode …
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Do you love men? Do you respect men? Do you respect that they are different? Sometimes when I hear women talk about men, I wonder if they even like them. Normal complaints and frustration with someone? Fine. But disrespectful bashing? It’s one thing to be a strong woman with ambition because achievement is one of …
Note: This post is for people who are results-driven. 🙂 Whenever I’m putting a new product out to market, I ask my target audience for feedback. Like for my book SHOW UP: Finding Love for Independent Women, I had a graphic designer make 2 cover options and asked 50 women who were my target audience, …
I dated this guy for a while. Let’s call him Dave. I liked Dave because he was patient, adventurous, and I felt like I could be myself around him. This was during a time when I attracted emotionally unavailable men, so Dave was, of course, emotionally unavailable. Despite us “breaking up,” we still hung out often …
Ask yourself: Why do you like to make love complicated? Does it feel more significant when it’s complicated? More romantic? Are you addicted to the push and pull? Have you only seen examples of turbulent relationships, so you think they must be that way?
I like talking about friendships because friendships set the tone for all your intimate relationships, including romantic. Looking at my closest + long-term friendships of 20+ years, the reason we are friends is not because we like the exact same things. While we have some interests in common, the way we approach many aspects of …
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This is an excerpt from my book Show Up: Finding Love for Independent Women. Now available on Amazon! After doing personal growth for a few years and feeling frustrated with my dating life, I wondered if things would ever change. Then I met a guy named Greyson. Greyson and I went back and forth …
This post is an excerpt from my book Show Up: Finding Love for Independent Women. Now available on Amazon!
I was babysitting my niece and nephew. We made paper airplanes and they started coloring them. My nephew saw my niece drawing princesses on her plane and he got mad. He told her to stop because, “Airplanes don’t have princesses on them!” I said, “Adam, there are all sorts of airplanes, even ones with princesses …
It was a week before Christmas. I was checking in for a flight together with my dad at San Francisco International Airport. We were on our way to Germany, where my dad has worked for over 30 years. We both have been looking forward to this trip for months. My sister and I used to …
