Category: Love Life

  • Can We Stop With the Blue Collar Men Worship

    Can We Stop With the Blue Collar Men Worship

    Blue Collar Men Aren’t Saviors Can we stop with the blue collar man worship please? Just because a man works with his hands does not mean he’s more enlightened, steadfast, kinder, gentler, will make a better husband, father or that somehow he automatically qualifies as being a “good” man than those who have white collar…

  • Is an Open Marriage Ever Okay?

    Is an Open Marriage Ever Okay?

    Open To An Open Marriage? So not too long ago Monique’s husband was quoted as saying he didn’t mind if his wife got her sex on with another man: “We’re saying that if by some chance that you hear scandal and you hear that Mo’Nique slept with another man, it won’t be a need for…

  • Sorry, but a College Educated Man is a Must When It Comes to Marriage

    Sorry, but a College Educated Man is a Must When It Comes to Marriage

    A College Educated Man Is A Must So today Belle, over at a Belle in Brookly had a post about settling when it comes to relationships and marriage: Would you settle? Have you? Is there a difference between settling and compromise? If so, what is it? – I think about it all the time. –…

  • Why I *Heart* Gold Diggers

    Why I *Heart* Gold Diggers

    I Love Gold Digger And You Should Too I don’t have an issue with gold diggers. You will never find me complaining about how a woman is a gold digger and shame on her and how she doesn’t deserve to be with that man and he’s such a victim for falling for her game. Naw,…

  • Interracial Dating: Racial Stereotypes Hurting Black Women

    Interracial Dating: Racial Stereotypes Hurting Black Women

    While attitudes have softened toward interracial dating and most people don’t view them as abhorrent any longer, their are still plenty of biases in place when it comes to the mixing of the races – black and white in particular:

  • Battered Women: Domestic Violence and African American Women

    Battered Women: Domestic Violence and African American Women

    According to a study conducted by the U.S. Department of Justice in 2000, African American women experience domestic violence at a rate 35 percent higher than white women and 22 percent higher than women of other races.

  • Relationship Advice: Smart Women Marry for Money

    Relationship Advice: Smart Women Marry for Money

    Smart Women Marry For Money Black women and marriage are consistently a hot topic online and off. However much of the topic tends to be on the low marriage rates among black women and not on the reasons and they type of men black women should marry. While there are many reasons women should marry,…

  • Smart Women Marry for Money

    Smart Women Marry for Money

    Smart Women Marry For Money Black women and marriage are consistently a hot topic online and off. However much of the topic tends to be on the low marriage rates among black women and not on the reasons and they type of men black women should marry. While there are many reasons women should marry,…

  • Why Marriage is a Bad Deal for Women

    Marriage A Bad Deal For Women I fundamentally believe marriage is a bad deal for women. Ultimately when it comes to Holy Matrimony women get the short end of the stick and if the divorce rates are any indication (75% of divorces are initiated by women) then I’m not alone in thinking this. The main…

  • Stop Defending Domestic Violence

    Stop Defending Domestic Violence

    Defending Domestic Violence So, what I’ve been able to gather from the Chris Brown/Rihanna situation is that if a woman “escalates conflict” with a man then it is perfectly within the man’s right to beat the shit out of her. No questions asked. And I’m not speaking in hyperbole here. The recent results from a…

  • Sleep With the Thug, Marry the Good Guy

    Sleep With the Thug, Marry the Good Guy

    You Sex The Bad Boy Not Marry Him Songs like this make me want to slap whoever writes them. Unfortunately too many women practice this kind of garbage. There’s a very simple rule to live by: You sleep with the thug. You marry the good guy. And no, before anybody starts fussin’ I don’t literally…

  • Turns Out, You Should Tell Him to “Put a Ring On It”

    Turns Out, You Should Tell Him to “Put a Ring On It”

    Tell Him To Put A Ring On It Last week we learned about the six guidelines for women to get married according to John T. Molloy and the research he conducted for his book, Why Men Marry Some Men and Not Others. That post focused on guideline 5: Keep in shape, watch your weight, and…