Category Archives: Relationships

The Bridesmaid Bitch

Another happy couple… I’m a brides­maid bitch, it’s as sim­ple as that. I’ve been in seven wed­dings since 2002: six as a brides­maid, and one as the maid of honor. I loved all the brides and cried and kissed them tear­fully on their glow­ing white day. I also stomped, swore and swilled on Sea­grams and triple sec from the frus­tra­tion [...]
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Ask the Urban Dater: Why Did My Ex Tell Me He Still Loves Me?

Oh good­ness me! It’s been a while since I’ve been in the WYSIWYG edi­tor at the Urban Dater! I fig­ure a fine way to get back into the loop here is to field one of the pil­ing ques­tions from one of our readers. Michelle C. asks: Why did my ex boyfriend tell me he still loved me and he [...]
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Death of the Single Me

“The reports of my death have been greatly exag­ger­ated.” Actu­ally, I’m not sure that quote really fits here, but it’s the first one that jumped to mind that my gut approved.  As many of you know, that read this lit­tle blog, is that I’m in a rela­tion­ship and I have been for some time. Many things have [...]
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The Next Ten Minutes

Khloe and Lamar fig­ured out a lot in Ten minutes Recently I have been giv­ing a lot of thought to a ques­tion I was asked. “What do you want?” It was in ref­er­ence to dat­ing and rela­tion­ships. This ques­tion gets asked quite fre­quently and just as often the answer is “I don’t know.” It’s frus­trat­ing to date some­one who isn’t [...]
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Letters to Lovers Lost

Today we’re offer­ing up a some­thing a lit­tle dif­fer­ent.  Today’s piece is from ‘Con­sum­ingt­h­eart,’ a long time reader, first time con­trib­u­tor to the Urban Dater.  Today she’s going to pro­vide us with a very per­sonal, heart-​​felt, good­bye let­ter.  I’ve always been fas­ci­nated with the notion of a “Dear John” let­ter.  Writ­ing a  let­ter pro­vides an excel­lent forum for sort­ing [...]
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