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Happy Birthday to me!

What a birthday week—first Steve Buscemi got stabbed by some hillbilly in a bar brawl, and then Joey…

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Advice From a Reader

I recently decided to reactivate some of my online dating profiles and started shopping for the winter season.…

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Treat ‘Em Mean . . .

I’ve been carrying on something of a long-distance relationship with this girl I met online about three years…

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Spanking the monkey

A couple weeks ago I conducted a poll* to test my hypothesis that while involved in a relationship…

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Dim sum or dim bulb?

Dear Dategirl, What does a gentleman do if a waiter embarrasses his date and ruins the evening? Wanting…

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Freeloading Fräuleins

So, Dategirl, why is it that in the Land of the Liberated, women expect the guys to pay…

To be and not to be

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To be and not to be

WHY DO FOOLS fall in love? You have to be a fool to hand over your heart to…

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He hates me! He really hates me

Dear Dategirl, First, I think it is only fair to admit that I have never been a frequent…

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Lights, Camera, Action

Dear Dategirl, I lived in Seattle with my loving fianc饠of two years until things went horribly wrong. My…

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Tattoo you

In answering a reader who wondered why women desecrate their bodies with tattoos and piercings in my column…

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Ladies First?

I consider myself a feminist and a liberal, but I am definitely heterosexual. What does that mean in…

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Crazy for you or just plain crazy?

It’s not easy being me. Sure, I’m pretty good at telling other people how to run their lives,…

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Dysfunction Junction

Dategirl, I enjoy your column; it’s often helpful and almost always funny. That said, I’ve been a bit…

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Around the World

I met this girl on New Year’s who’s only in the country for a year. She’s working as…

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A Field Guide to the Single Guy

Frankly, when my pal Julie recommended I read Rick Marin’s new book, Cad: Confessions of a Toxic Bachelor…

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Pint-sized paramour

Dear Dategirl, I’m a 5-foot-4 Hispanic male with a height complex—you see, the woman of my dreams is…

Three-Week Drought

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Three-Week Drought

I have been dating this woman for about seven months. She’s everything I’ve ever dreamed of in a…

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More Cushion for the Pushin’!

A newly chubbed-up newlywed wrote in recently lamenting the changes the extra weight had wrought in her boudoir…

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Stop! (In the Name of Love?)

I am one of those girls that has done Internet dating, tried interoffice romance, taken art workshops, and…

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Dategirl

Wow. I’ve only been an advice columnist for a week and already my head is spinning. Recently, I…