relationship

Need advice: long-distance love

I had been dreading this decision since April.And I wasn’t even the one making it!My boyfriend, Derek, got accepted into the Ph.D. program in history at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. (He’s working on his Ph.D. here, but this…

ASK DR. DISH: Royal advice

Question: I am totally obsessed with the Royal Wedding!!! I am so glad you asked yesterday (in Monday’s blog)!!! I have a question for everyone else who is just as obsessed as me — or not: What is your marriage…

ASK DR. DISH: Drinking etiquette

Question: Dr. Dish, my company has a policy that we cannot drink while at work events. But what about at networking mixers at bars and nightclubs? Technically it is not a work event.Answer: Thanks for the question! It’s a good…

Pets over partner?

The other day NBC’s “Today” asked the question: “Who would you choose: your sweetheart or your pet?”And even me, a die-hard pet owner, was surprised by the results of the online poll.An whopping 84.5 percent of respondents — and there were…

ASK DR. DISH: Teen hates school

Question: I’m pretty sure you do not have kids, but I thought maybe your readers could help me. My teenager daughter is dreading going to college. She was not the best student in high school (like me) and does not…

Friends with benefits

There’s a new movie that looks at the age-old rom-com question: Can friends have sex without it getting complicated?In “No Strings Attached,” Ashton Kutcher and Natalie Portman play longtime friends who become FWBs — friends with benefits — because they…

The cheating ‘dilemma’

A new movie released tomorrow raised an interesting question: if you caught your best friend’s spouse cheating, what would you do?That’s the premise behind “The Dilemma,” starring Vince Vaughn and Kevin James. They play best friends and partners in an…

How do you know, you know?

As soon as I saw the preview, I knew I wanted to see the movie.“How Do You Know,” a new romantic comedy directed by James L. Brooks, centers around a 31-year-old Olympic softball player (played by Reese Witherspoon) who’s torn…

Sign a friendship contract?

I hate to admit this, but I do watch “The Real Housewives of Atlanta” on Bravo.(Hey, even CNN’s Anderson Cooper is a huge fan.)On a recent episode Cynthia Bailey asked the very outspoken (and undoubtedly the breakout star of the…

What’s normal, anyway?

Ever wonder if you’re normal?I do. All the time.I wonder if I’m the only person who eat rice with garlic salt, who can watch the same episodes of “Top Chef” over and over again, who actually enjoys plucking my underarm…

ASK DR. DISH: Male shortage

Question: A September 6 post … highlighted the growing acceptance and pride among small breasted women (and much of the public at large) that small is beautiful, too.Well, Dr. Dish, I’ll be blunt: I’m a mature man who’s hung like…

ASK DR. DISH: Love those jerks

Question: I am living proof that nice guys finish last. My girlfriend of six months dumped me and went back to her abusive ex-boyfriend, a guy that cheated on her and made her feel bad about herself all the time.…

Should moms and daughters be best friends?

Last Friday I caught the first installment in a series on NBC’s “Today” about relationships between mothers and daughters.This one focused on the question: should moms and daughters be best friends?More than half — 57 percent — of responders to…

Guys, don’t stop dancing badly

Guess what, guys?Those horrible dance moves you do — you know, the Sprinkler, the Raise the Roof and the famous White Man Overbite — may not repel women as much as previously thought.According to psychologists from Northumbria University in England,…

ASK DR. DISH: Peek and tell

Question: This is so embarrassing I didn’t want to ask my friends about it, so I’m going to ask you, Dr. Dish. I found some explicit text messages on my boyfriend’s cell phone from someone I don’t know. It is…

Cougars: a myth?

Do cougars really exist? Or are these older women prowling for younger men just a myth, a phenomenon created by the media?A recent study of age preferences among single women conducted by the University of Wales Institute at Cardiff resulted…