Know Your Role, Earn Your Worth: Chivalry’s Place In Modern Relationships

“You will lose if you choose to refuse to put her first/she will and she can find a man who knows her worth.” Alicia Keys, “A Woman’s Worth” OK, I guess I’m going to need someone to break it down for me in a way that I can understand: when did manners,common courtesy and minimal… Continue reading Know Your Role, Earn Your Worth: Chivalry’s Place In Modern Relationships

Get Right Or Get Left: The Art of The Compromise

When you live in a society that glorifies independence and emphasizes the concept of ‘self,’ it can be hard to recognize the difference between upholding one’s standards and refusing to compromise. Since the beginning of time, stories of men and women who bow to nothing or no one have spawned legends, regaled stage and screen… Continue reading Get Right Or Get Left: The Art of The Compromise

The Right Woman + Good Man + Daughters = Former Playa

Several years ago, after we’d been dating for a few months, my boyfriend Calvin and I decided that our relationship had developed enough to reach the next milestone: Meeting the Folks. The fact that we were in our thirties and included my son on dates didn’t diminish the butterflies I felt in wanting to make… Continue reading The Right Woman + Good Man + Daughters = Former Playa

The Birth Control Billing Backlash

Here are not one, but TWO unenlightened letters received from folks who felt it was their duty to inform me that women need to suck it up and pay for all birth control (as if men have no duty to do so). I shut them down faster than a bootleg Gucci/Prada swap meet. Another mic hits the stage.