Recently I very much felt like the “Starter Wife”. This remains unproven however, since my ex is still single. But still. The possibility of grooming a man for someone else’s dining pleasure was almost too much to bear.

And then, the shoe was suddenly on the other foot. _I_ turned out to be the woman dining on a dish that some other poor unsuspecting chef-ette had slaved over for, well, years.

Please excuse my likening a man to a meal, but…

“He had more issues than the Readers Digest, so she cancelled her subscription.”

I was raised to be a good girl, nice to strangers, and caring to the less fortunate. But seriously, what do I look like? Florence bloody Nightingale?

I seem to have got myself ensconced with a good-looking, successful, charming, funny gentleman who happens to have so much baggage that I’m sure he shouldn’t be allowed to purchase flight tickets at normal…

They warned that a cold front was coming. Everyone told him to bring an umbrella. The skies were grey, the lightning about to strike, and the clouds were pregnant with……

EXPECTATION.

I’m a big fan of weather forecasting. A control freak like me has an electronic weather vane at my front door, a spare umbrella/poncho/Havianas and bikini in my car. I like to be alert, not alarmed.

It’s…

In early prophesising, I declared superior knowledge of “how you know a boy loves you”. (Yes, sometimes giving you his last Rolo is simply not enough.) And so now you find he’s beginning to grow on you quite nicely too…

Of course, as a general rule of thumb, especially in the initial stages (“best foot forward, butt-sniffing stage, still wearing my sexy undies”), honesty is best.

Things are moving along rather swimmingly with your…