Thanks to arranged marriages: There are countless women who have never been their husband’s girlfriend.

Check my riddle, and I’ll let you play my fiddle.

I have a strict moral code. I don’t share penises with friends.

Sabine used to maintain that preparation for a dance is comparable to what goes on in the back room of a butcher’s shop: the meat for consumption is sliced and dressed and put in nice...

I’ve always had a thing for Carmyn Rafferty. She carries herself as a reserved and proper woman, but I see a tension in her. A slight glitch in some of her movements lets me know...

A woman should be mindful that the key to one man’s heart does not necessarily fits into the lock of another.

Here’s something else to think about: calling when you say you’re going to is the very first brick in the house you are building of love and trust. If he can’t lay this one stupid...

I went on a blind date last night. We watched a silent film. We stayed up all night talking in sign language. I fell asleep in the fetal position in her cat’s litter box. Ah,...

At church, during communion, they give out free wine. Whoa! Talk about a great place to drink and meet women.

Tommy asks where Carolyn is.”She’s at Cindy’s.””They live together now,” Salvador added.”Didn’t they just start dating?” Tommy asked.Tiger answered, “Yeah… A couple of WEEKS ago.”Unhappy about the news, Tommy objects to Carolyn moving in with...

This is what dating is like, I thought, this horrible mix of boredom and fear and humiliation and confusion.

Be optimistic. Always put on clean underwear if you’re going on a date.

While some dating sites use targeted discounting strategies to improve their conversion rates, we take a different approach, focusing on privacy technologies.

He’s hurting and it’s not just the Quinn thing. It’s being away from you and wondering if you’re hurting, too. Or if you’re having too much fun to hurt. What he really needed was to...

All of the emotions that hit people at times like these, all of them, were coursing through us both like a secret we couldn’t tell. Because if we said everything we were thinking and feeling...

The three of you were pretty cute last night, with all that touchy-feely crap.””Yeah, that lasted for about two minutes before you dragged Evan back over to the bar.””Dude, we were hunting Turkey. [drinking bourbon]...

I like letting people in on the process. When we did a speed-dating scene, we hired all these hilarious women … and let them go off on Steve. … If something’s funny, I hate for...

There are a lot of things wrong with this particular approach to getting your girlfriend to agree to reenter a relationship with you. Probably the biggest problem is that it’s a PowerPoint presentation.

Some people will only value what they HAVE when it becomes what they HAD

A broke man’s lover doesn’t feel ‘loved’ on her Birthday, Christmas, and, on Valentine’s Day.

A love triangle is a threesome delayed.

Hey, if you’d wanted to avoid ‘this,’ you shouldn’t have lured me last night. Now it’s too late. You might as well avoid the long, drawn-out pain and get it over with quickly. Sort of...

Don’t date anyone you can’t see yourself marrying.

Maybe some poor slob would take you to bed if you weren’t such a ballbuster.

It is better to stay single and wait for the one that makes sense then to marry someone that makes absolutely no sense. The moment you settle is when the one person that makes all...

If my ex-husband could move on, I could, too. I would search for my gardener, someone who would help me to grow and bloom, but who would recognize the fragility of a new flower just...

One of the best things about humans is their ability to love.

In the street below, a posh-looking drunk man is reading the card of a prostitute, Blue-Tacked up by a doorbell. He’s examining it with all the forensic care I presume he puts into reading a...

He leaned forward and opened his door, politely standing aside to let me by before following me in. There are some advantages to dating a guy from another era, I thought. Though I am a...

A Dom never takes away. He only builds.

It’s easier to say (I’m going to be myself and if anyone wants to be with me, then she/he has to accept me as I am…flaws and all) than it is for us to work...

A squeegee is a sponge on a stick, and if there is a tangible item that’s more romantic, I don’t know what it is. Never go on a first date without one.

Dating is all about getting to know somebody, without wasting a lot of time or money. What is the price of love? You’ve got the cost of dinner, a movie, and cab fare for you...

Romantic love has its place but to define relationship solely in romantic terms is like describing marriage only by what a couple does on their honeymoon.

Oh, hell,” Thandi muttered, her heart lower than ever. “I really blew it, didn’t I?””Don’t be silly,” Berry scolded. “It’s just your first lovers’ spat. You accused of him of being an inhuman fiend, and...

If you cannot attract a woman, you are, by definition, sterile.

Maybe this was a male-female translation problem. I read an article once that said that when women have a conversation, they’re communicating on five levels. They follow the conversation that they’re actually having, the conversation...

We kissed for two hours. Eventually, I led him into my bedroom and pulled off both of our shirts. He stopped me.”This might sound weird; it’s not typical guy response.” I froze, suddenly awkward. “I...

Hearing my brother’s words coming out of Henry, this stranger in a strange town, made me feel wild with all the loss—wild and wired with no place to put those feelings.

Trusty steed.

Elizabeth: “Maybe he’ll surprise you.”Meghann: “Birdie, they all surprise me. Last week, I hugged my date at the door and felt a bra strap.

What exactly does that expression even mean? An ass that won’t quit? Think about the primary function of an ass—I’d think that’s the sort of thing you might want to quit.

When we reach our highest potential, we will find our highest love.

Huge biceps are an unattractive-uneducated-underpaid man’s last attempt to be seen as worthy of dating, or, sleeping with.

Dating is a man-made ideology: if having a lover was a prerequisite to living, one would either be in a relationship, or, six feet under.

People who concern themselves with the rights of other adults who engage in consensual acts involving sex, love, and/or eating croissants together are damaged and in pain.

Sometimes it’s not that you “fell out of love” it’s that you finally came to the realization that you were never truly “in love” to begin with.

If everyone could feel as I felt at that moment, dressed in my preppy sweater and McGregor coat and about to set out on a little journey with my Bambi-eyed girlfriend on Christmas Eve, all...

Women have got it all wrong now. They give it up too soon, and the men don’t respect them. And before you tell me I don’t have a clue, let me tell you something. By...

The most important quality in the man you decide to marry should be the ability to make you laugh. Beauty fades, careers end, money comes and goes, religions change, children grow up and move away,...