Category Archives: Boyfriends

Will Work for Prom Dress: The Hairstyle Tells the Real Story

The talented Aimee Ferris, whose new book WILL WORK FOR PROM DRESS just came out on Tuesday (congrats, Aimee!), has an ongoing PROMAPALOOZA with various YA authors and their prom pics. Here’s the game: she posts the pictures but doesn’t reveal who the author is. Readers guess and then, Aimee lets the secret out. It’s [...]

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Does True Love Start with Signing a Yearbook?

I’m still digging out of the mess of stuff I had to send home from my parents’ house over the holidays. There is a lesson here: If you can throw it away, do it. If only I had known that a few years ago. But, there have been some gems from all this stuff. Last [...]

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Going Back to High School – in Boxes

I went home to visit my parents over the holidays and they had a surprise waiting for me. No, not a new car or even a cashmere sweater. Instead, they pulled out ALL of the boxes of stuff I was saving for posterity (or something like that). All fifteen boxes, each filled to the brim [...]

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dear Sarah: Kissing 101

Your Question: My boyfriend and I just started dating. He asked me on a date and I know he will kiss me but it’s been like 6 months since I have kissed a guy and I don’t remember how!! What in the world do I do? Dear Reader, First-kiss jitters can make you really nervous [...]

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dear Sarah: To Tell or Not to Tell?

Your Question: I have a friend who just starting going out with this girl. We have become very close friends but I recently found out she has been cheating on him this whole time. Should I be honest with my friend I’ve known forever or not tell him because I don’t want to break his [...]

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dear Sarah: When a Guy Bails Without Even Breaking Up with You

dear Sarah, A guy recently broke up with me without ACTUALLY breaking up with me… it made me feel completely worthless and unwanted. He didn’t even tell me to my face that he didn’t want to see me anymore, he just ignored me completely. I’m pretty sure the reason he did this was because he [...]

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When Boy-Girl Relationships Start to Mean Something Different to Parents

I recently did an interview with a very cool journalist, Myrna Haskell, who has a parenting column that runs in 10 different states. She asked smart questions, all from the parents point-of-view, about what do to when your teenager starts being interested in (gasp!) the opposite sex. Since we’ve all been there (even the parents!), [...]

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dear sarah: I’m Falling for a Family Friend…

What do you do when you fall for a friend? And what if that friend happens to also be a family friend – as in, you know his parents, his parents know your parents, and they would all know if you suddenly started dating said friend? Here’s how to deal… (from my latest column with [...]

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dear sarah: Dealing with “The End” of a Relationship

dear sarah, So I’ve been dating this guy for 6 months and I really liked him at the beginning but now I’m having doubts whether I like him or not due to that he really doesn’t pay attention to me and we really don’t see each other. He claims that I’m the one that doesn’t [...]

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Calling All Ocean County, New Jersey, Girls!

I’m coming your way for a Boyology GNO par-tay! If you’re around on October 6th (it’s a Tuesday) at 7:00pm stop by the Little Egg Harbor Library branch. You can register by calling 609-294-1197 or get more event details here. It’s a Girls Night Out and we’ll be talking about all things boy!

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