Funny stuff if a little bit inappropriate. It’s Friday so why can’t I be funny?

Comedians always bring an edge that’s fully based in reality and that’s why I like showcasing them.

Hope you enjoy!

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Comedians always say they never get the girl but this guy says he’s dating five women at the same time!

Let me know what you think!

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This one looks interesting.

Maybe I can get the author to do an interview? I’ll see what I can do!

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Can you have a relationship with someone you’ve never met?

The short and the long answer is a big fat no.

I interviewed online dating expert Stephanie Alexander a while back and she talked about flying out to meet a guy she had only spoken to over the phone. He showed up in a late model Camaro that had seen better days and then drove her to where he lived: his parent’s basement!

You have to be real careful when dating online.

Human beings need to touch taste and smell their environment to make the best decisions. As mammals, we need to engage all our senses when choosing a mate. In this way we make better decisions that will affect the rest of our lives.

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One might think divorce would slow Larry King down. In reality, the only thing that might stop Larry King from getting to marriage #10 is death=)

Apparently Larry King dates all the time whether married or not. This might explain the soon to be 8th divorce!

Dating isn’t just for singles anymore!

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Editor’s Note: I’ve been lucky enough to get, Maryanne Comaroto, internationally know relationship expert and radio host, to guest blog once or twice a week for the next ten weeks! What follows is pure dating and relationship gold that’s been mined from the deep and fertile depths of Maryanne’s rich experience.

Today’s post concerns respect for others whether you’re dating, divorced or married to them. While Maryanne directs this at men only, I respectfully ask that you read this post carefully as it my open your eyes as to the quality of your love life.

Guys, this one’s for you – and ladies, feel free to pass it on to any guy you know in your life who’s on a path toward thinking holistically about love, relationships and family.
In my work over the past two-plus decades, I’ve focused on relationships of many different types – dating, casual, serious, engagement, marriage, divorce, post-divorce … and in my most recent book, “Hindsight: What you need to know before you drop your drawers” I present the relationship tool belt. Although applicable for just about anyone, the book – and my subsequent teaching on it – is primarily geared toward women.
But I’m also interested in how the male mind relates to relationships, and I there are many, many guys out there who are on paths toward healthy, honest, fulfilling relationships – dating, marriage or otherwise. How we approach relationship and sex cannot be separated from our values about children, marriage and family (considering one primary unconscious drive is to procreate). Having stated the obvious, it’s what isn’t so obvious that I would like to help illuminate with my next book, Investing Your Family Jewels. It’s an attempt to help folks heal and educate themselves so we as a culture are better equipped to raise healthy, thriving children, rather than continue the cycle of dysfunction we each in our own way struggle to be free of.

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Marriage and dating the second time around is challenging on all fronts. Sociologist Andrew Cherlin of John Hopkins University says that compared to other countries, men and women from the US are twice as likely to seek a divorce as any other country. If you compare separation/divorce rates to the Italians, our rate is a whopping 7 times as high!

Chernin sights several factors:

• More Americans live together before marriage which adds a higher risk of future breakup
• American’s standards for happiness are much higher than any other country

Divorcees will tend to live with someone first before they get married. This may be why divorcees are much more likely to get divorced the second and third time.

Chernin’s only solution is to slow down the dating and courtship process.

I think Chernin’s solution while solid is a bit flawed. For instance, I would point out that American’s have already slowed the courting process down by marrying later and later yet this hasn’t worked.

My solution to this dilemma is as simple as it is challenging: learn how to communicate one on one, nose to nose, toes to toes while dating, before you get married!

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Unless you’re living in a cocoon, come from another planet or a former Republican Governor of IL, your probably aware of the grim reality facing the world today.

What might that reality be? Could it be the economy? Could it be President Obama’s plans to fix the economy?

The answer is no to all of these. it’s actually something that might hit home much sooner than any of the above. It’s actually a little statistic that came over the wire last month: divorce has spiked while the economy was tanking.

While this is good news for divorce lawyers, It made me feel sad for all those couples married and dating that find themselves facing a relationship crossroads.

Recently, I spoke with a friend that decided to call it quits with her husband after nearly 15 years of marriage. Mounting business losses and horrible communication skills spelled the end of what had been a loving and passionate marriage.

While many right now are blaming the economy for their failed relationships, my friend placed the blame squarely where it should be: failure to communicate. She admitted that she and her husband never built the proper trust and respect that comes from good communication and that when things went sour for them, there was nothing to bridge the resulting gap that came between them.

Right now, President Obama is trying to fix America’s broken infrastructure through a number of different measures including rewiring our electrical grid and fixing old sewer systems. The price for ignoring these things for far too long will be huge. If we had only updated and continued to improve this infrastructure from the beginning, the price to be paid would be far less.

I believe the same thing goes for our relationships. While there is no quick fix, if you wait too long to fix it, the costs to repair it may end up collapsing the whole enterprise.

President Obama\’s Stimulus Plan

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When we moved to our new school district I was happy that it’s academics were phenomenal but worried at the same time that homework would take over family life. I had heard horror stories over the past ten years of an avalanche of homework overwhelming both kids and parents.

Thankfully this has not happened to us and Hannah gets time to learn, create and play. Too many parents, pundits and what I like to call academic do nothings, don’t realize how important play is to the development of our kid’s brains.

Thankfully, parents and experts are starting to speak out.

There’s an interesting story across the news wires today about the loss of playtime for America’s children. On the surface this may not seem as important as what’s going on overseas or in Washington, but I think you might want to take a second look here.

Mounting evidence shows that all work and no play makes Jack and Jill not only obese but dull and uninteresting. So says more and more psychologists and other experts. What’s to blame for an epidemic of dullards coming out of American schools? TV? High-fructose corn syrup? The internet?

While these are all bad for you, none apparently are as insidious as homework. That’s right. Too much homework makes Jack a dull boy and Jill uninterested in forming healthy relationships. After a busy day at school, kids come home to do homework and have time for nothing else. Sure they go off to a variety of organized sports, but often never play with the kids next store.

The funny thing is that the same thing is happening to moms and dads. The preponderance of devices that seem to run our lives instead of enhancing them is scary. Blackberries, cell phones and emails are only serving to isolate us all by having us bring our work home.

Men and women already have a hard enough time communicating.  it used to be that dad would get home, ask what’s for dinner and then enjoy dinner with his wife and kids. today things are different. Obviously mom works now thereby changing the household dynamic considerably. Dad for his part gets home then goes into the basement or home office to catch up on emails.

The nation’s 50% divorce rate  illustrates this and will no doubt get higher.  If we train them from birth to have as little human interaction as possible, divorce rates can only get worse.

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There was a news story from Cambodia, http://erickacourtney.wordpress.com/2008/10/09/estranged-couple-split-house-in-divorce-literally/,  today about a guy who cut his house in half after he and his wife divorced. Unlike a magician who can magically make a woman disappear, this poor fellow couldn’t make his ex-wife go away, so he divorced her and sawed his house in half!

A friend asked why a man would resort to this and boy do I have answers:

• He couldn’t sell in the current horrible housing market so he decided to take his half of nothing and enjoy it!
• His Cambodian 401K isn’t what it used to be.
• Everybody else is doing it so why not jump on the bandwagon?

You may be saying to yourself, Al, those first two are believable, but I just don’t know about that last one!

Well think again! My Crack Team has uncovered a disturbing trend in house cutting. Whatever the reason, men are turning their chainsaws on their houses. If you don’t believe me, check out this link below from September, 2005:

http://www.wastednews.com/?attachment_id=493

Or how about this from last month:

http://www.wlwt.com/news/14230786/detail.html

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