Is it life or is it just the weather but I don't understand why, three months into Christmas, this seems to be a season of break-ups among my circle of friends. And as you can very well imagine, nothing can be more heart-rending. Take for example Friend A who's given it all in a relationship which appears to be one-way. She was the one who broke it off but now she wants to take it back, reasoning out that she can never live without him. We try to tell her that "God will send you someone better in his own time" even though we know it's an exercise in futility ... Continue Reading...

I have gotten all sorts of inquiries on my posts in this blog, the most popular being people who have asked me about this private pool in Laguna and who my favorite psychic is. Yes, some have even hounded me on YM just to know about the rates, time of availability etc. that I feel like a Wikipedia/telephone directory already. Mercy, mercy moi! The other day, reader Jonnie left a comment here to unload his problem. Being a frustrated advice columnist, I now deal with his dilemma in this post. If you were in the situation, how would you act too? Here goes: ... Continue Reading...

(Note: This is one of my interesting articles I've safekept which was previously published in Weddings Magazine. If you have another engrossing story to tell, care to share them here:) Like Julia Roberts' character Maggie Carpenter in Runaway Bride, my friend Ron is a runaway groom - two times over. Twice, he mustered enough courage to propose to his two serious girlfriends and twice he called the engagement off - naturally with heartbreaking results. Ron's first engagement was to his officemate Tina. They were on-and-off for six years. Ron proposed to her during ... Continue Reading...

(Author's Note: I have gazillions of published articles and have kept about half of them. I thought this old article was interesting enough to be recopied in this blog, in the light of my recent post on 'Brokeback Mountain' and the subject of sexuality. FYI, this appeared under my byline in the Nov 13, 1999 (!!!) issue of Women's Journal. It's old, all right, but the revelations are ageless. Read for yourself and tell me what you think. Who knows girls, you may never look at your boyfriend/husband in the same way again) The stereotype gay is the kind often depicted ... Continue Reading...

Could you really be meant for one person for the rest of your life? I ask this now as an impartial bystander who has to contend with impatient complaints from my friends about their marriages, how routine the sex life has become (if it ever exists at all), how tempting the idea of an illicit affair is, or how earth-shaking it is, if it's in full steam already. ... Continue Reading...