Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man

Maybe your car broke down, or the water heater is about to give its last breath, or your kids are acting up and you can’t get a ...

Now that other man, the one who’ll scoot on the ground on his back with the toolbox, and come back out hours later with car grea ...

not a good candidate for benefits. You’re going to be in pressure situations in your relationship time and time again, and you s ...

A man who is worthy of the benefits will be there for you no matter what bad circumstance comes along. If you lose your job or f ...

It’s that simple. Now, I realize that ninety days sounds like a lot of time and you kinda need to be real creative to keep his a ...

Find out each other’s favorite artists and attend a concert together. Release your inner kid and spend an evening playing games ...

Read a passage out of each other’s favorite books. Have a movie night in which you both bring your favorite DVDs. Go to a record ...

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12 If He’s Meeting the Kids After You Decide He’s “the One,” It’s Too Late L et’s get one thing straight. When a man approaches ...

we were in a relationship with you. In fact, if we’re about game and our game goes right, we never make it to the kids; we figur ...

make some kind of verbal or, especially, physical commitment to him, and then finally drag him to the house only to find out he ...

clearly he’s involved with someone who comes with a whole different set of obligations, responsibilities, and potential re- quir ...

to determine what kind of mother you are, and whether he’d like to have you be the mother of his children. This is hugely import ...

start and hold a conversation with a six-year-old; the biggest test of someone’s children skills is whether they can talk to kid ...

Sure, how your kids feel about this guy should count for something, too. Children have an uncanny ability to pick up on when hum ...

odds are low that the new man is going to have a kumbaya moment with a sulking, hulking, attitudinal older child. The beauty of ...

here’s a secret: that’s exactly what the players who wrote the rule book you’ve been following want you to believe. Women live u ...

your mom’s house for a family barbecue. See what he says— what he does. If he says, “Nah, I ain’t going over there, I got to wat ...

For those of you who are dating men with children, don’t expect him to introduce the kids early, necessarily, because wherever h ...

doesn’t want you around them—he’s telling you you’re not worth the potential headache. But if he says something like “I got the ...