Ask anyone who has been in a love relationship for a while: nothing is perfect.
There is no such thing as 'getting' a guy, house and kids. There is only surrendering to them.
I've been standing at water coolers for the past thirty years talking to women about their love lives, and here's what I've learned: Eventually, most women I know want to be partnered.
Though it's safe to say there are a whole lotta American gals who agree with the core ideals of feminism, they are somehow nevertheless watching 'Say Yes to the Dress' by the millions.
Rather than diminishing the idea of 'truly needing' a relationship - and trying to deny it, shame it, or talk ourselves out of it - why not just celebrate it? It's exactly what the world needs.
Is our desire for partnership just an evolutionary remainder, a Togetherness Delusion, where millions of women only think they need a relationship to be truly happy? Maybe. But you know what? That's fine with me.
Yes, I have 'failed' at marriage - a lot.
Sometime between when the Summer of Love ended and the Summer of Sam began, America became a nation of cynics about love.
Somehow, married or single, we'd rather anesthetize ourselves with love substitutes than go for the real thing, because let's face it: The real thing is pretty scary.
I was, for some reason, born knowing how to get married.
Without really trying to, I've become a sort of jailhouse lawyer of relationships - someone who's had to do so much work on her own case that I can now help you with yours.
The deal is: most men just want to marry someone who is nice to them.
If you're not married, chances are you think a lot about you.
Putting my words piece online was an important part of my plan to help women learn how to love themselves and have a better life.
Because I was a television writer for many years, I write very conversationally. I put things straight, and with a lot of humor.
Relationships are like the world's most intense yoga! It's a daily practice.
Work is a different type of pursuit than relationships. You can't take the skills that you know that have gotten you into that great school or into that great job and apply them to your relationships.
I think of masculine and feminine energy like two sides to a battery. There's a plus side and a minus side, and in order to make something turn on, you need to have opposites touching. It's the same in relationships.
I'm the straight-talking woman in your life who is going to be really honest with you, but come from a place of love. I'm not talking down to you; I do this from my heart.
The thing is, relationships never work out... until they do. You learn a lot from relationships that don't work out.
