The other night I was embarrassingly sucked into a marathon of reality TV disaster. MTV has a new show on its late-night schedule called Is She Really Going Out With Him?  It is inspired by the website hotchickswithdouchebags.com (one of my personal favorites). It's in a documentary-style format showing beautiful women in seemingly toxic relationships followed by a snarky, omnipotent narrator. In the end, the beauty is faced with the decision of whether to leave her obnoxious, self-absorbed, usually wandering-eyed boyfriend, or to continue to fall victim to his douchebaggery. It's a train wreck and I was thoroughly entertained.

Quite possibly one of the only “after school specials” I never had the opportunity to experience personally in my young life was promiscuity. In this world of Microwave dinners, On-Demand television, high-speed Internet capabilities, and instant check out lines at the grocery store, we rarely wait for anything. Society has stopped working for the end result. We don't earn; we merely receive. Instant satisfaction. We once learned to wash our hair with the instructions: rinse, wash, repeat; we now date with the process: smile, fuck, move on.

It's a common concern that once we let our true guards down with the person we just began dating they will retreat. Because of this, many people put up “fronts”, acting as if they are someone else in order to close the deal in the beginning. Where at first you may have found the perfect woman, a few months down the line you may find Miss “Of course I don't mind when you go out with the guys and not call” or Miss “I'm a strip club fanatic myself!” flipping out when you do the same things she once called endearing. Or women may see Mr. “I don't get jealous that you have so many guy friends” and Mr. “I believe in the romance in movies as well” suddenly forgetting those so important woos and accusing your best male buddy of wanting more.

Perhaps it's natural to feel the need to mask some of our deeper insecurities at first, but waking up next to a total stranger after a few months is quite a disappointment. Here are a few steps to take to insure that this does not occur:

We have all heard Grandma use the adage, “No man chases a street car he's already bought.” But sometimes that chase needs not be forgotten.

I have met a lot of guys in my dating experiences who have told me their lengthiness relationships had spanned only a few short months. This baffled me. Were they that picky?

It seems the older I get the shorter my relationships seems to be. Maybe I am wasting less time by microwaving my options. Sizing these men up in a few short weeks and deciding whether it's worth my efforts.

George Carlin once said, "  "I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence?"

According to divorce statistics in 2009, 40-50% of first marriages end in divorce in The United States.  According to surveyed divorced couples, there are reportedly a number of reasons why marriages fail.  The number one reason is a lack of communication. The second most common reason given for divorce are the various martial conflicts (specific and individual for each couple). Thirdly, many divorced couples say infidelity led to divorce. While these are the primary reasons cited for divorce, statistics show that there are several underlying factors that contribute to these trends. These factors include, but are not limited to: age, education, income, religion, and differences in cohabitation practices.

A girlfriend of mine asked me how to respond to a guy she was dating who had blatantly hit on one of her girlfriends.  They are not exclusive, so she had no real claim on being "bitchy".  But, come on... it was clearly a dick move for him to move in on both of them at the same time.  My advice was that of passive aggressiveness.  It is a form of telling someone off without looking like an asshole and still getting your point across.  I call it, "F-U Wink".

This process can be used in many ways and enables you to be both cruel and cute in the same sentence.  For example; a game player texts you with some mixed message like, "I am not looking for anything serious but I'm not looking for anything casual either."  A good way to respond could be, "That makes perfect sense.  Maybe when you figure you're shit out you can get back to me."  Sounds mean?  But when you add the random smiley face at the end of your sentence you look much less like a bitch.

We hate them, we fear them, we give them all of our hard earned money so that "Timmy" allegedly has new books for his fall semester. The PPA (Parking Authority of Philadelphia) was originally formed to free up the police department the duties of regulating the escalating parking violations being made through the growing population.

Today, The PPA is EVERYWHERE! For all intensive purposes they are piranha’s. They will get you when you have a quarter in your hand and you are just about to put it in. And tickets are not cheap. They range from $36-$300 depending on the violation.

Romantic relationships cannot exist without friendship at one point or another.  Whether they were born from a friendship or one was built within, the initial attraction would not have occurred had chemistry and common interests not been shared.  So, when the relationship ends, does the friendship really have to end as well?

There may be a rhyme and reason as to whether this relationship can exist.  Regardless of how thick skinned you are, the dilemma surrounding the "friendship with the ex" is a tricky one.  It's a tangled web we weave when we stay in contact with someone we once shared intimate experiences with, someone we may have once loved and someone who has, my god, seen us naked.