L.A. Affairs: I wanted a girlfriend. Would swiping right during a pandemic really help?
2 years, 9 months ago

L.A. Affairs: I wanted a girlfriend. Would swiping right during a pandemic really help?

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The news about the Omicron variant was steady and trending ugly: its arrival from South Africa, travel restrictions, inevitable spread all over the globe. Can I bring my dog?” She responded with an enthusiastic, “Yes.” I got to her house on New Year’s Eve about 7 p.m. She asked if I would go on a hike with her on New Year’s Day. New Year’s Day went perfectly: the lingering breakfast, the long hike followed by dinner and a viewing of “Being the Ricardos.” The next morning all was over, I thought, as I drove the hour and 40 minutes back home. I made a quick call to Ann and said: “Let’s get together since we both have it.” Her doctor had said that if we were positive we could quarantine together — it was a perfectly good arrangement.

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L.A. Affairs: As a divorced mom, I was conflicted about dating. Until I met him
6 days, 14 hours ago

L.A. Affairs: As a divorced mom, I was conflicted about dating. Until I met him

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I was three years post-divorce, with a 12-year-old son and a newly adopted puppy, living in Park La Brea, where a community of single moms had come together. She reminded me of my dating plan by saying, “It’s just one date.” Expecting the worst, I was surprised instead to meet a successful entrepreneur and triathlete with sexy curly hair, an …

L.A. Affairs: We found a love we weren’t supposed to. Would we last forever?
1 month ago

L.A. Affairs: We found a love we weren’t supposed to. Would we last forever?

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“Wait, you dated her? She’s basically royalty,” said an old schoolmate of my first love when we realized our mutual connection. I’d never met a Muslim person before coming to college, and here I was, walking into the mosque in my skinny jeans with a tiny silver cross hanging around my neck. Her family’s prominence in her home country, the …

L.A. Affairs: I met a stranger at the airport. And yes, I was having feelings for him
3 months, 1 week ago

L.A. Affairs: I met a stranger at the airport. And yes, I was having feelings for him

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My brother dropped me off curbside at Los Angeles International Airport and yelled, “Run!” Our timing getting to LAX was thwarted by the kind of notorious L.A. traffic that airline change fees and crushed dreams are made of. Without missing a beat, she shot back: “Good, because you’re very handsome.” We said goodbye in a flurry. Flying over Tulsa, Okla. …

L.A. Affairs: I went to the ER after a fall. But I might have left with a boyfriend
4 months, 1 week ago

L.A. Affairs: I went to the ER after a fall. But I might have left with a boyfriend

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I am an 81-year-old widow with shaky balance. “When was the last time you had a drink?” “Last night I went out with my buddies and had a few beers.” So, he’s single! The last thing I said to her was, “Why should I?” “Because you never know.” “Not doing it,” I said loudly, hoping the subject would finally be …

L.A. Affairs: I said, ‘I love you.’ She quickly replied, ‘As a friend, right?’
11 months, 2 weeks ago

L.A. Affairs: I said, ‘I love you.’ She quickly replied, ‘As a friend, right?’

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My eyes scanned the crowd in the arrivals area of Terminal 5 at Los Angeles International Airport. Two years prior, on Jan. 17, 1994, the Northridge earthquake shook her parents’ Porter Ranch home violently, waking her and her family from their slumber. After a year of our digital friendship, I sat 3,000 miles away in my bedroom, but one night, …

L.A. Affairs: My date with a genius became a lecture series with no escape in sight
1 year, 2 months ago

L.A. Affairs: My date with a genius became a lecture series with no escape in sight

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Every Sunday I read this column religiously because it feeds my hope that at 65, I, too, still have a chance at finding love again. Like in Foreigner’s song “I Want to Know What Love Is,” I keep climbing that mountain, not just for love but for a love better than I’ve ever had, including a long, difficult marriage. A …

L.A. Affairs: I finally met a good guy but then I was diagnosed with cancer. What now?
1 year, 5 months ago

L.A. Affairs: I finally met a good guy but then I was diagnosed with cancer. What now?

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I had been unlucky in love. I see food and I eat it.” When he hears someone speaking Spanish, he says, “My Spanish stops at taco, burrito and enchilada.” There used to be an Orange County shopping complex called the Block, and whenever Rick had out-of-town company, he would ask them if they’d like to take a walk around the …

L.A. Affairs: I was focused on work. I didn’t realize he was flirting with me
1 year, 5 months ago

L.A. Affairs: I was focused on work. I didn’t realize he was flirting with me

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When you’ve been in the bookstore business long enough, there are times when you start to think everybody’s got an angle. Maybe it’s just an L.A. thing, but it seemed that every time I stopped at a stoplight those days, some enterprising do-gooder would lean over from the next car with a crumpled card reading “We Fix Dents.” I didn’t …

L.A. Affairs: My relationship status dramatically changed while I was on a pilgrimage
2 years ago

L.A. Affairs: My relationship status dramatically changed while I was on a pilgrimage

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My wife Kathy died in 2018 on my birthday, March 24, from breast cancer. Fulfilling a long-held dream with Mary’s help, on Sept. 1 I began the Camino de Santiago in Spain, a 500-mile walk from the French border to Santiago de Compostela in northwest Spain. I came home one day in a torrential L.A. downpour and found at my …

L.A. Affairs: I fell hard and proposed on New Year’s Day. She had other plans
2 years ago

L.A. Affairs: I fell hard and proposed on New Year’s Day. She had other plans

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Maybe two weeks into the relationship, Emily said to me, “You know this is just an affair, right? “They’ve got the best baguettes in town,” I said as I moved past her in the dusk, thinking that would be that. She invited me over for a movie night, and we had chosen, of all things, to watch “The Dead,” the …

L.A. Affairs: Texting destroyed our relationship. Don’t let it come for yours
2 years, 10 months ago

L.A. Affairs: Texting destroyed our relationship. Don’t let it come for yours

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I’m normally a very even-keeled guy, and I can ride the ups and downs of life with aplomb. We were now days into this texting game, and this should surely be seen as a positive development; if she wasn’t interested, we would have already fizzled out. I’d had a few relationships in my life that had ended prematurely for a …

L.A. Affairs: I tried to take it slow. So I waited a month before I proposed
3 years ago

L.A. Affairs: I tried to take it slow. So I waited a month before I proposed

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I had graduated from UCLA and was working for an accounting firm. So I invited her to a party my brother and sister-in-law were having at their house on New Year’s Day, to watch the Rose Bowl game. Lifestyle L.A. Affairs: How a friend’s divorce affected my own marriage If you asked me during the early days of my marriage, …

L.A. Affairs: The secret to ending my lonely nights? I’ve started dating couples
3 years, 4 months ago

L.A. Affairs: The secret to ending my lonely nights? I’ve started dating couples

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I’m not normally the kind of guy who brags, but for the record, I have now aced this whole dating business. I’ve done this any number of times — with my publishing mogul friends Paddy and Scott, theater impresarios Alan and Ronda, and my comedy writing pals Andy and Michele. They’re desperate for new company, for someone who hasn’t heard …

L.A. Affairs: What might have happened if we’d gotten that drink?
3 years, 5 months ago

L.A. Affairs: What might have happened if we’d gotten that drink?

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I was visiting a friend in New Zealand in 2019 when I had an extra travel day. Whether you’re looking for ocean views or desert landscapes or soaring mountain peaks, Los Angeles offers miles upon miles of strikingly different trails. Lifestyle Here are 10 of the best L.A. Affairs columns of all time We collected some of our favorite L.A. …

L.A. Affairs: Where is my pandemic love story?
3 years, 6 months ago

L.A. Affairs: Where is my pandemic love story?

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I imaged myself grabbing and kissing him from across the table. Maybe I would find what my socially distanced friends were calling a “lockdown buddy.” Better yet, maybe I would walk away with one of those pandemic love stories I kept hearing about. But I was really thinking, “Why are you here with me if you’re leaving?” Lifestyle A summer …

L.A. Affairs: They’re young and in love. And they each have a secret
3 years, 7 months ago

L.A. Affairs: They’re young and in love. And they each have a secret

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We were both hiding a part of ourselves from the other. Lifestyle L.A. Affairs: 14 perfect stories for Valentine’s Day We’ve curated 14 of our favorite stories about love, culled from the archives of L.A. Affairs, the column dedicated to the ups and downs of the search for love in Southern California. Each time Leo would drive down to Los …

L.A. Affairs: The sheer exhaustion of dating as a single mom
3 years, 7 months ago

L.A. Affairs: The sheer exhaustion of dating as a single mom

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We love each other but we can’t stay married because he is a person with alcoholicism who won’t acknowledge his problem. Yet over the next seven years I’ll share my bed with a series of highly unavailable people: a funny and handsome podcast producer who announces within the first moments of our meeting that he’ll never marry or live with …

L.A. Affairs: She told me the exact date she was going to shatter my heart
3 years, 8 months ago

L.A. Affairs: She told me the exact date she was going to shatter my heart

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I realized there was still so much I wanted to share with her. Lifestyle Here are 10 of the best L.A. Affairs columns of all time We collected some of our favorite L.A. Affairs columns — which run weekly in the Los Angeles Times, and chronicle the ups and downs of dating in Los Angeles and the search for love …

L.A. Affairs: I finally figured out why my marriages kept failing
3 years, 8 months ago

L.A. Affairs: I finally figured out why my marriages kept failing

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During my first marriage, I kept forgetting my anniversary. Lifestyle L.A. Affairs: 14 perfect stories for Valentine’s Day We’ve curated 14 of our favorite stories about love, culled from the archives of L.A. Affairs, the column dedicated to the ups and downs of the search for love in Southern California. But she walked straight up to me, interrupted my conversation …

L.A. Affairs: I survived a plane crash when I was 15. Now I know why
3 years, 10 months ago

L.A. Affairs: I survived a plane crash when I was 15. Now I know why

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I finally had an answer to the question that had haunted me. “Why do you think you were the only survivor?” That’s a question I’ve heard many times over the years since I was in an airplane that crashed, killing everyone else aboard. Lifestyle L.A. Affairs: 14 perfect stories for Valentine’s Day We’ve curated 14 of our favorite stories about …

L.A. Affairs: When ‘corona-dating’ gets me down, I remember what mom said
4 years, 2 months ago

L.A. Affairs: When ‘corona-dating’ gets me down, I remember what mom said

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It was early April, and I’d been quarantining for roughly a month. “I just want someone I can sit with and talk to on the couch and have a great time,” I’d often remarked to my friends about what I’m looking for in a relationship. Before I knew it, I’d be sitting on my balcony with the sun going down …

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