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Gratitude Platitude Pudding and Pie

Gratitude Platitude Pudding and Pie

As a culture, and maybe a world wide one, we have been over saturated with the concept of gratitude in recent years. Tales of how so and so lost everything in the crash or the fire or the flood, and then he got diagnosed with something severely diagnosable, and then...
Can’t Buy Me

Can’t Buy Me

Today, if you are willing to entertain me, I am going to teach you how to go on a date with money. This will serve nicely if you are alone in your house right now, but happen to have a twenty in your wallet. JK. It’s for everyone! The single, the betrothed, the...
Love Hangover

Love Hangover

Roses and chocolates and cards dripping with sugary declarations of affection. Starry-eyed dreams of someone to love and be loved by. Candle lit conversations, getting caught in the rain while drinking pina coladas and not being into health food, the sweet nothings...
Avoidance Survival Guide

Avoidance Survival Guide

Last week I wrote to you about avoidance; how and why it’s hard for us to talk about hard things in our relationships —for some of us chronically hard, and what we can do to make it easier to just say the thing (hint if you are afraid that feeling scared or needing...
Kings, Queens, and In-betweens

Kings, Queens, and In-betweens

His cape flies in the wind and dust, hooves thundering over the gritty earth beneath the dark of a waned moon. He finds her tethered to a tree, gown torn, her tresses tousled, a wildness to her delicate beauty that charges his blood. He reaches for his blade. With a...
Happy New Years

Happy New Years

I know, some of us aren’t ready. Some of us are like looking at the decorations, and the fridge full of leftovers, and we’re just not ready to give up the permission to indulge, in chocolate for breakfast, or time spent with loved ones, the festive gatherings, the...
We Are the Champions

We Are the Champions

Let me tell you about the secret sauce to relationship bliss. I mean to taking your relationship from good, or dreamy, or manageable, or up and down to next level. Championship. What is that, pray tell Erin? Championship is for starters the opposite of...
Trust is a Complicated Affair

Trust is a Complicated Affair

This past week I have been having so many conversations with you about trust, in the spirit of which I am reposting this gem. Know that you are in my heart. I’m not sure what you’ll be doing all week, but I will be talking to people about the intimate details of their...
To Do or Not to Do

To Do or Not to Do

When I was say 37 years old the other day I was rummaging through some keepsakes and found a teeny tiny fairy journal that I had written in at age 11. In addition to a memorandum of well executed and indicting arguments as to why my little sister was to blame for...
Good on Paper

Good on Paper

We all have ideas of what we need in a potential partner. Often these ideas are formulated by past experiences, like what didn’t work last time, where it all went wrong. Yep we are analyzing, overanalyzing squeezing our big little brains trying to pin it down so that...