I love Jason Mraz’s song I’m Yours. Doesn’t every woman? It’s been on Billboard’s Top 100 chart for 74 weeks, a record. It’s the third-best selling digital song of all time, having sold 4.4 million downloads, and it’s still going strong. Why?
Surrender.
“Well you done done me and you bet I felt it
I tried to be [...]
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Posted by Susan Walsh on Sep 21, 2009 in
Personal Development,
Relationship Strategies Brett and Kate McKay write The Art of Manliness, a successful personal development blog that is tailored to men, but contains many excellent, thoughtful articles that I enjoy. Recently, they wrote about a general condition of restlessness and anxiousness in our society, a sort of general malaise. They define it as feeling like there’s this great [...]
Tags: Art of Manliness, college, college campuses, commitment, epidemic, fall in love, general malaise, girl, guy, guys, happiness, happy endings, hook up, hooking up, hookup, love, marriage, media, men, movie sales, Personal Development, porn, regret, relationship, relationships, restlessness, romantic, sex, thoughtful articles, true love, weekend, young women
Posted by Susan Walsh on Aug 31, 2009 in
Girl Talk,
Relationship Strategies Are women unrealistic in their expectations of love? Do we demand so much from men that none can ever hope to measure up? What is the love that we dream of as girls, and can we ever really find it?
My own views of love were undoubtedly shaped, at least in part, by the many books [...]
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Posted by Susan Walsh on Aug 25, 2009 in
Relationship Strategies You’d like to meet someone new, someone who has real potential for a meaningful relationship. You know there are a million fish in the sea, but you keep coming across the same bottom feeders again and again. How do you meet a good guy?
I. Go where the good guys are.
Go west, young woman, go west!
Wow, [...]
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Posted by Susan Walsh on Aug 13, 2009 in
Relationship Strategies,
What Guys Want Jealousy is one of the most powerful and potentially destructive human emotions. When we feel jealous, we say that we are sick with it. Jealousy is the emotion that can make us feel like we’ve been punched in the stomach and had the wind knocked out of us without warning. It can feel like a [...]
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Posted by Susan Walsh on Jun 25, 2009 in
Hooking Up Realities,
Relationship Strategies I speak with many women who would like to be in a relationship, but are missing one important ingredient: that elusive Y chromosome in the form of a guy. They bemoan the current state of affairs, and in a “misery loves company” sort of way, talk about it for hours on end with sympathetic friends [...]
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Posted by Susan Walsh on May 26, 2009 in
Relationship Strategies “In gardens, beauty is a by-product. The main business is sex and death.”
Sam Llewelyn
I spent my holiday weekend digging holes. I am a gardener, and every year on Memorial Day I plant, and weed, and water, and generally launch my garden for the summer. I confess I feel sheepish admitting this, because I fear you [...]
Tags: beauty, beautyrelationships, Boston, crush, drama, fall in love, garden, gardening, getting what you want, love, mature, plant, respect, success, survival, three strike rule, ultimatum, weeds
Posted by Susan Walsh on May 5, 2009 in
Personal Development
“A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.”
Coco Chanel
I would love to see you fall completely in love with yourself, if you haven’t already. I am not talking about narcissism. I am talking about that feeling you have when you are on top of your game, ready to unleash yourself on the world, feeling [...]
Tags: adventure, coco chanel, creativity, curiosity, fabulousness, fall in love, faults, flexibility, friend, generosity, health, impulse, love, narcissism, open, passionhonest, Personal Development, self discovery, smart, success, thoughtfulness
Posted by Susan Walsh on Dec 2, 2008 in
Ask Susan,
What Guys Want
“Mr. Right’s coming, but he’s in Africa, and he’s walking.”
Oprah Winfrey
Aunt Sue,
Ugggghhhhh, I don’t get it! I am so frustrated. I thought for sure this boy was different. I mean, I’ve been through this a million times. I figured out a long time ago that guys will hardly ever call after a random hookup, [...]
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