Step one was listing goals of the investigation, which in my case was A Long-Term Relationship With Someone Who Wasn’t Clinically Insane. Within a few weeks I met the man of my dreams…
The Love Detective Investigates
Love Lessons Learned From Late-Night Lifetime TV Marathons
It’s not casual sex that kills relationships. It’s insecurity.
“When I’m with a man, it’s because I like him. Not because I want him to like me.”
– Blanche Devereaux, The Golden Girls
Are you trusting your ‘gut’, or something else?
It’s not often in reality TV that you get to have a ‘teachable moment’, but in my opinion as an investigator it’s happening right now on The Real Housewives of Orange County with Vicki Gunvalson and her shady boyfriend Brooks Ayers. Everyone around her believes that he’s a con artist. After all, red flags don’t turn pink. Meanwhile she is equally sure that her instincts are right. I see this as an investigator all the time, and I think it’s down to a fundamental misunderstanding of one of the first rules of detective school: Trust your gut. Read more
Love is a Drug. Cocaine.
‘Biochemically speaking, falling in love closely imitates substance abuse.’ Before you drive through the Las Vegas wedding chapel with the guy from Craigslist, ask yourself if you would make any other life decision while high on crack. Keep your heart open and your wallet closed!