My boyfriend told me that he didn’t want to get married again. Dealbreaker?
What a jerk, I thought, after Clark yelled at me again to pull faster on the sailboat’s lines to keep pace with the changes of the wind as we headed ...
Tag: L.A. Affairs
L.A. Affairs: It only took me 3 dates with a woman and her wife to find my best self
I walked into the Los Feliz gay bar dressed in my New York City best: leather pants, a crisp top-buttoned white shirt, sneakers, silver jewelry and a cow-print bucket hat. ...
He was kind and rich. His expensive gifts hinted at something darker
He was everything I wasn’t. A New Yorker from a wealthy family, a film producer who moved easily among famous people, called them by their first names and went to ...
L.A. Affairs: My dog bit my date. Would I hear from him again?
It was September 2021, and the fall chill was creeping in. Since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, I had been shackled to my 350-square-foot studio apartment in Miracle ...
L.A. Affairs: I boldly gave a fun, mysterious guy my number. Could I refrain from Googling him later?
This story begins at MiniBar, as so many of my Hollywood stories do. Well, technically it’s called Lily’s Bar now, but to me it will always be MiniBar — the ...
L.A. Affairs: I dated all kinds of complicated guys. Would L.A. men be any different?
Sitting on a plane from Budapest to Los Angeles — a journey I was familiar with — felt different this time. I was visualizing my new startup job in sunny ...
L.A. Affairs: My roommate had sun-kissed skin and a movie-star smile. Was he my Romeo?
I grew up in Los Angeles a hopeless romantic with my head permanently tilted toward the sky and a copy of “Romeo and Juliet” worn from rereading. I devoured that ...
After my marriage fell apart, darkness got to me. Then I was catfished
“You don’t revere me anymore.” The words rolled off my tongue at my husband, who had been acting strangely for a few days. “Revere?” he said with such distaste that ...
L.A. Affairs: He looked hot in his tight jeans, boots and cowboy hat. Would he ask me to dance?
I had never before been single in Los Angeles. My partner and I had moved here from New York. I worked a very early shift at Sony Pictures, pumping out ...
L.A. Affairs: For years, I juggled co-parenting, dating and taking care of a family cat I didn’t like
In the chaos of divorce and shared custody with my two little girls, my ex-husband got a cat, and I thought by promoting uniformity between the two homes, I should ...
