Everyone everywhere says the wrong thing at the wrong time. We all do it and then immediately wish we could eat our words. I have asked an old friend when she was due only to find out she wasn’t pregnant.

There’s a song by an Australian group about wishing to live that day again and most of us can relate to that. When you’re in a relationship, there ARE things that you say that you’ll rarely overcome.

People ask Jayce and I if we ever argue and are we as happy as we appear to be and the answer is yes to both. Sure we argue. We live together and we work together which means we’re together nearly 24/7 and that’s a bit of stress on any relationship, but we seem to thrive. So what’s our secret we’ve been asked.

“Never say the words you can’t take back,” is our reply.

It’s easy to disagree without hurting the other person’s feelings and you’ll both end up feeling respected at bedtime. Concentrate on what you’re upset with, not with the person and you’ll never have to wish you hadn’t said those words.

You can mess up when she asks if you think she’s gaining weight. Even if you get it wrong, she’s not going to hate you. If you say in anger, “You’re nothing but a fat pig!” she’s never going to forget it. Never. Even if you work it out and things seem fine, some words last forever and she will never forget what you called her in anger.

All is NOT lost if you have made a really big oops but you have to hurry. If you’ve said something that’s going to linger for decades and you want to erase it, you have at best, 72 hours to make up for it and not have it etched on your sweetie’s heart forever.

1. Say you’re sorry and that you spoke out of anger and frustration and that you didn’t mean it.
2. Write down what you said on a small slip of paper and put it in your mouth and say that you would eat your words 1000 times if you could.
3. Nothing says I’m sorry better than chocolate.
4. Unless you’ve been REALLY bad, flowers are overkill.
5. Change the linen on the bed and tidy up the bedroom. Leave a note on their pillow telling how much you love them.

Picture this: you and your man are in romance heaven. Everything seems perfect! You and your partner are enjoying each other’s company. You are almost together 24/7 and then it seems like everything is falling into place. But then, you decide to talk about your thoughts, your feelings, and where you think the relationship is going. Once he finds out about your expectations, he suddenly starts backing off and keeping his distance. He doesn’t even return your calls anymore. It seems like he fell off the romance radar.

When a woman in a relationship decides to open up about her true feelings, guys usually go into an instant panic mode. What is it with men and feelings anyway? Are our men allergic to feelings and expectations? It seems like every time a woman attempts to talk about how she is feeling, the man in her life suddenly turn his back away. No matter how hard a woman tries, she can’t seem to rekindle the connection they used to share before she decided to voice out her feelings. Her man just drifts further and further away until he disappears altogether, and she’s left in the dark wondering just what it was she did wrong. Besides, all she did was tell the truth about her feelings, right? How could that possibly work against her relationship? If this hasn’t happened to you before, then it’s probably happened to one of your girl friends. So when either you or one of your girl friends think you’re almost at the point of having “the talk” with a boyfriend, make sure you remember the advice in this article. “The talk,” by itself, isn’t a bad idea to have. In fact, it’s actually a necessary step for the relationship to move forward and grow into the next level. The problem rises when the woman speaks her mind in a negative context, and this is usually the case, particularly, if she just came out of a bad relationship.

When women want to talk about their feelings, expectations, etc to their man, it is important to remember to not shock the guy. Try to be subtle and try not to overwhelm him. When she talks about her feelings, there may be certain expectations that she has. One of the reasons why some guys back away is because they might be thinking that you are expecting too much from them, especially if it’s early in the dating game. It is important that women take things slowly — have the talk when you know that your man is ready for it.

Don’t think you shouldn’t talk about your feelings but accept that he might not take it the way you mean it. You might be talking from the bottom of your soul and all he hears is blah blah blah love blah blah insecure blah blah blah. Don’t let him get away with it. Not listening is a put down and says that you aren’t worth listening to. We all know that men and feelings don’t necessarily go together. When things are done subtly and at the right time, then the chances of him engaging in a good talk about your future, your needs, your expectations and your feelings.


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What is it about people who don’t know that they stink? Peee ewwww. I was shopping yesterday and stood behind a woman who was smartly dressed and looked like she had money. Well, her shoes looked expensive and she had a designer handbag and big rocks on her fingers but they might have all been fakes. Anyway, as I always do, I smiled and nodded that funny little hello that you do when you’re standing in the checkout line. And then it hit me. I took a deep breath and this woman smelled so bad that I know tears came out of my eyes. The body odor was enough to knock an elephant down half a mile away.

In this day and age when everyone has a bathtub or shower and soap isn’t too expensive, why would you go around dirty and worse stinky? Smelling natural is one thing but going around smelling like a skunk is too gross for words.

As I stood there waiting for her to pay the money and piss off I thought about her poor husband. She had on a wedding ring so I assume she has a husband. Imagine what it must be like to cuddle up to that? I imagined him with one of those swimmers noseplugs that kids used to wear when I was young. You’d have to want sex awfully bad to get close to someone who smelled that much.

It got my curiosity piqued so much that I did some searching on the net and indeed there are some conditions that make people smell bad when they are not dirty. So I’m going to think that Miss Stinky has a condition that renders her smelly and that as we speak she’s getting treatment. If it were me, I’d stay home and save the world.

It seems that a growing number of us don’t trust our partner or spouse and we’re resorting to the latest technology to catch them doing something wrong.

Two of the most popular gadgets on the market are a device that recovers deleted text messages from mobile phones and a chemical test kit to detect traces of semen on underwear.

In Australia, OzSpy’s SIM Card Data Recovery Pro works by placing the SIM card into the gadget and then plugging it into a computer to download the stored information, which includes deleted text messages. If you’ve been worried that your wife has been sleeping around, there’s the CheckMate 5-Minute Infidelity Test Kit which works in a similar way to a home pregnancy test.

The company promoting the CheckMate claims to be selling more than 100 of each device a month nationwide in Australia — more than twice the number sold six months ago.

Currently there is no law banning the use of these sleuthing tricks by individuals. Privacy laws do not prevent snooping to find out who’s doing the dirty on you.

It IS illegal in Australia to install spy cameras without consent of those filmed. There’s the potential of 2 years in jail and more than $25,000 in fines.

I suppose it’s only natural that with all the latest technological toys, someone with a bit of savvy will try one just to satisfy themselves that their partner is true blue. I thinik if you really doubt your partner, that counseling would be a much better option to get everything out on the table and sorted out.

The owner of OzSpy in Melbourne, Australia reports that sales of spy gadgets are booming and it’s not just men, women want to know who their husbands have been emailing and texting via their phones. I’m sure it’s only men who want to check for semen on panties though!

The message to cheaters is clear — covering your tracks has never been harder. If you choose to cheat, be prepared to have your house of cards fall down around you when your wife sorts it all out.