Opinion

Dear Goldy:

I don’t know why, but the last few guys I went out with were more like boys than men. On paper, they all look good. Then we go out and it could go either way: poor table and eating manners but great conversationalist, or vice versa. But once we get to the part of the conversation where we ask each other, “What do you like to do?” or what hobbies you have, their answers are unattractive to me, even childish.

I wrote an article similar to this one around the same time last year. Why? Is it because I’m running out of topics? Gosh no! It’s because of what happens this time of year – the time where there is a three-week break between day camp and the start of school.

Dear Goldy:

My chasan and I are writing this together. We are unofficially engaged and want to become official, but there is one thing that is bothering him, and he thinks it will affect me and what people will say about me and to me.

Dear Goldy:

I don’t think you can help me with what I’m about to write. So maybe I’m venting here. Whatever it is, I appreciate anything you have to offer.

 I once (or twice) wrote about a fellow I dated one time. Sure, on paper he was great, but in person he was far from great. You know how people tell cute stories of themselves or family members on dates as an ice breaker or the start of a getting to know you conversation? His idea of a “cutesy” story was telling me how he regularly screams at his grandmother who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and living in his family.

Dear Goldy:

I am currently dating my friend’s cousin. She and I have been friends since high school. We always joked that we’d love to be family – if one of us married the other’s brother or cousin – but now I am actually dating her cousin. My friend, let’s call her Ethel, is very excited about this whole thing. I didn’t tell her about it. As usual, she heard it through the grapevine.