The Kat House

This morning in the grocery store, there was a guy ahead of me in the checkout line. He kept looking at me and smiling. I just smiled back, because that’s what us Tennesseans do, and then went back to reading the tabloid headlines. Every time I glanced back up, he smiled at me again. He [...]

My relationship history has made it very difficult to trust a man with my heart. In the past nine years, I’ve met a lot of guys – many of them nice men who truly cared for me. But I have been so protective of myself that I’ve pushed them away, choosing instead to keep this [...]

This is the time of year that everyone is getting married. Love is in the air.  Well, for everyone except me it seems. And though I thoroughly enjoy my single life, I can’t help but long for the guy who will help me to realize that a partnership is better than flying through life solo. [...]

My friend Elliot called me “unique” today. Maybe not for the reasons I would have liked, but he definitely had a point. We were talking about my relationship issues. Yes, I will admit I have issues – the biggest being my tremendous need for alone time. Nearly every relationship begins and ends the same way [...]

You’re all well aware of the many losers I’ve dated, but there have been a few nice guys along the way too. And David is by far the nicest. We met at Cotton Eyed Joe back in 2000. I was hanging out with a large group of people from an AOL chat room at the [...]

I have always believed in choosing my friends based on the people they are today – not what they were like in the past. After all, none of us are perfect, and we all have the ability to change. A few years ago, I would have told you that I have always selected my friends [...]

It’s no secret that I’ve had a long history of crappy relationships. I always seem to meet the jerkiest guys on the face of the Earth. There was the abusive ex-husband and the psycho boyfriend. And of course, we can’t forget the guy who pretended to be a devoted boyfriend for nearly a year before [...]

I’m sure that you’re all familiar with MySpace and Facebook, but have you heard of FlirtVibes? Though originally intended as a free dating site, FlirtVibes.com has become much more than that. It’s a social networking site with all the bells and whistles. When I posted my profile on the site, I was surprised to see [...]

I was introduced to the concept of online dating quite by accident. It was October 1999, and I had gone through a divorce several months earlier. One night while bored out of my mind, I visited a Knoxville chat room and began chatting with a guy named Chris. After several days of online conversations, we [...]

Time for another Thursday Thoughts post! In bold, you’ll see some of the latest Google searches that brought readers to my blog – then my responses for each. “What exactly is a soulmate?” I wrote A Message for My Soulmate nearly three years ago. The post gives my definition of a soulmate as well as [...]