Yo, Yenta!
My boyfriend and I have been together since our junior year of college. Six years later, we live together and have discussed marriage. I try to make a nice home for us, but he’s a complete slob and lets me do all the housework because I’m better at it. Last week I came home after work and cooked dinner, which got cold because he wouldn’t come to the table until Sportscenter was over. We used to have so much fun together. Now we’re like old married people, except we’re neither. How can I spark the flame again?

– Wishing for the Way We Were

Dear Wishing: Waxing nostalgic isn’t going to help you now, toots. The times you had together in college, like watching “Ren and Stimpy” reruns while you wrote his English papers and did his Continue reading →

Yo, Yenta!
I met this woman online and we’ve been chatting like crazy for three weeks, on the computer at night and during work. We haven’t met yet, but I like her a lot. She’s divorced and has a ten year-old daughter. I’m not against dating a single mom, and I would like to have kids of my own someday. The thing is, the kids’ father is not Jewish and this woman seems ambivalent about bringing her daughter up in the Jewish tradition. It’s important to me to marry a member of the tribe, partly because I want my children to be Jewish. Should I be wary about starting a relationship with someone who doesn’t feel the same way?

-Famisht in Fort Lauderdale

Dear Famisht: In this day and age, honey, you should be wary of sitting on public toilet seats and eating tuna fish, not to mention looking for love in this meshugga world. That’s why online personals are so terrific; you can find out all kinds of things about someone before you Continue reading →