Archive for the 'Dating multiple men' Category

Back burner beaus

Monday, June 16th, 2008

Dating Goddess reader Dale wrote:
I recently jointly decided to be exclusive with a man I’ve been dating for a little while. However, I’d been multi-dating and although I’ve told the others I’m going to focus on one man right now, several are interested in my letting them know if it doesn’t work out.
How do you [...]

Are you expecting a wild horse to act tame?

Monday, June 9th, 2008

DG reader Terri writes:
The middle-aged man I’ve been seeing for a few months is Mr. Spontaneity. He rarely plans anything in his life more than a day in advance, including our getting together. Last week he called me as he was leaving his house — 45-minutes away — and asked if I would have lunch [...]

My boyfriend, whom I haven’t met

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

A man has been wooing me the last 6 weeks, first via email while I was abroad, then during daily phone calls, emails and/or text messages.
We haven’t met, however, because 3 days after I returned home, he was called to his dying mother’s side 2000 miles away. While the doctors told him she only had [...]

Review of “The Four Man Plan: A Romantic Science”

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

Cindy Lu has written a funny — albeit gutter-language-laden — book about systematically classifying the men you date. So if you don’t like to read language you’d hear in most comedy clubs, you’d best pass on this one. She is an actress and stand-up comedian, which is where this book got its start.
She lays out [...]

Beware of multitasking when multidating

Tuesday, December 25th, 2007

When friends learn I have sometimes dated multiple men simultaneously, they ask how I am able to do so.
Logistically, I keep notes in my Date-A-Base, logging facts like children (names, ages, locations), parents (living or not, location), marriage/LTRs (how long, how long ago), where he grew up, went to school, or important jobs or locations. [...]