Category: Sleeping with Money
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The L Word: The Last Word on Money
Last Sunday was the series finale of the beloved lesbian Showtime drama The L Word. Whether you loved it or hated it, each week these ladies brought some real stories of life and love into our living room and even passed along some money lessons along the way. Here at Queercents, I have written about…
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Sleeping With Money: Getting Your Money’s Worth With Online Dating
So you’ve decided to take the plunge and upgrade to a premium online dating service. The main value of a paid dating site is that you’re meeting people who are financially motivated (by membership costs) to find a serious relationship, or at least date. There are also other features like compatibility matching or safety features.…
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Sleeping With Money: Alice and Tasha Moving In Together on The L Word
In Episode 11 of The L Word, we get a short but powerful glimpse into money and relationships. As Tasha and Alice start house and apartment hunting it becomes quite clear that communication and an understanding of each other’s money styles is lacking. To make matters worse I’m not so sure they share the same…
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Sleeping With Money: price you’ll pay dating a soccer mom
‘œOur similarities bring us to a common ground; our differences allow us to be fascinated by each other.’ ‘“ Tom Robbins A more accurate title might have been Sleeping With Money: Don’t Date Single Parents, but obviously soccer mom is a better descriptive to get clicks on this post. After all, you’re reading it. I…
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Sleeeping with Money: Hours of Mood Music for $50 or Less
No matter what letter of LGBT you are, sometimes you and your sweetheart need a little mood music for those sexy times. Don’t bother buying lame CD compilations targeted for a ‘œlovers’ night’: those work like a cold shower. Talk about a waste of money! I have a better idea. DListed.com (via Gawker) introduced me…
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Sleeping With Money: Equilibrium and Sleeping with a Straight
I’m sleeping with a straight. Well, okay, like my former lover in San Francisco wrote to me in an email recently: ‘œNewsflash, if she’s sleeping with you, she’s not so straight.’ And, to everyone’s surprise, it turns out that she’s not. My point, however, is not to graph an unhelpful hierarchy of straightness for this…
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Sleeping With Money: 6 Tips for the Partner of a Business Traveler
There’s plenty of information about making business travel better. You can even find ways to bring your partner along as Paula mentioned, or ways to tack on vacation time for you and your sweetheart to enjoy as Nina pointed out. But in a two-income household, one partner usually has other obligations that keep him or…
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Sleeping With Money: Down-and-Out Valentine
‘œThe doer alone learneth.’ ‘“ Friedrich Nietzsche I never liked being single. Sure, I always tried to thrive during my alone time and often referred to this period as: The Year of Nina. Obviously, there was more than just one year of Nina. It was usually the year or two between my longer term relationships.…
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Sleeping With Money: Which Partner Moves?
In traditional marriages, there is often a give and take between man and wife regarding whose career takes priority at any given time. More often than not, especially historically, it was often the man’s career that took precedence and the wife would often relocate and change/leave jobs for the good of the family unit and…
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Sleeping With Money: Partner Goes Back to School
An education bug is hitting Queercents. Moorea is considering beauty school. Jan has started massage therapy school. I’m now back in school to get my certification in web production and multimedia. I’ve been tossing around the idea of grad school for quite some time, until finally deciding that I’d like to be in an MFA…
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