Happy Friday! It was a good week, wasn’t it? Or, at least it was around these parts. Thank you again for your kind words on the first birthday of DearWendy.com and thank you for embracing the new message board as much as you have (and at the time of writing this — early Friday morning — we’re up to over 1000 forum comments, so I’d say you’ve embraced it pretty well). The board was in the pipeline for a while and it feels great to see it off to a strong start. And since we now have an active place for you to take “off-topic” conversations, I’m going to phase out the Weekend Open Threads. In their place, I’m going to start doing Friday Links, a collection of relationship-themed links from around the web. For this, I’ll need your help. My web-surfing time is very limited these days and I don’t get around as much as I did before baby. So if you’d be so kind as to pass along links to interesting articles, photos, videos, and websites that you come across, I’d appreciate it!
By the way, after I launched the message board on Monday, I added a new topic called “DW Meetups.” If you haven’t checked it out yet and are interested in possibly meeting other DWers in your area, go here and see if your city is listed (and if it’s not, list it yourself!).
P.S. This is one of my favorite Jackson outfits to date, and since he’s about to outgrow it, I had to post it here for posterity. Thanks for indulging my mama pride.
by Wendy on January 27, 2012
· in Weekend Open Thread
Today’s post comes from Sabrina Jackson who owns Free Dating Sites where she focuses on educating online singles about safe dating on the net.
Social networks like Facebook have given us the opportunity to post photos of our weekend escapades, tell our former high school acquaintances what we ate for lunch and post inside jokes on our best friends’ walls. But because Facebook also gives us the ability to share with all the World Wide Web that we are “in a relationship,” it can turn to “it’s complicated” fast. If you want to maintain a healthy relationship, DON’T commit these following Facebook crimes:
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by Wendy on January 27, 2012
· in Lists,Tips
It’s time again for “Dear Wendy Updates,” a feature where people I’ve given advice to in the past let us know whether they followed the advice and how they’re doing today. After the jump, we hear from “Reluctant Business Owner,” who was stuck with an enormous tax debt after her parents transferred their business to her without explaining the financial responsibility they were sticking her with. One of our legal experts, Addie Pray, gave her some great advice. Keep reading to see what she’s decided to do.
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by Wendy on January 27, 2012
· in Updates
Just a reminder that next week we’ll be discussing our January book club selection,The Marriage Plot. If you haven’t finished it yet, you still have the weekend.
Next month’s selection is “We Need to Talk About Kevin.” If you haven’t already picked up a copy, you can buy it here now (Kindle version here).
by Wendy on January 27, 2012
· in Book Club!
I read your column about the lady who wanted to leave her husband to move home because she didn’t like the new town they lived in. It sounds like my fiancé, only we haven’t moved away yet! He is a wonderful person whom I agreed to marry almost a year ago. The wedding is set for late May. My work situation is terrible, and there are no more jobs in my industry here in his hometown (my family lives halfway across the country). Now that it’s become apparent I need to move to continue in my career (I’m a TV journalist) he says he’s never leaving his hometown. He likes his job and family proximity, and he thinks my career is too unstable to move (at least mine comes with a contract!).
He was never excited about the idea of moving since we started dating four years ago, but this is the first time he’s told me I have to pick between him and doing what I love. His job as a criminal defense investigator is certainly portable, although, of course, the connections he’s built up at work would be sacrificed. I love him very much, but I am starting to wonder whether a man who loves me as much as he says he does would put a hometown over a wife. Can you help? — Have Fiancé, Will Relocate
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by Wendy on January 27, 2012
· in Columns
