Single, Married, Divorced

A new study says waiting may not be the best way to avoid divorce while getting married to young could also up the odds of splitting. The prime time for marriage, statistically speaking anyway, is between 28 and 32.  With Thanksgiving approaching our hosts discuss the best way to handle tough relationship questions from your family. Allison shares her, let’s say “interesting approach” to telling people about her divorce.  Our three hosts also share the best and worst gifts they’ve given and received from someone they were dating.

Poll Question: What’s the best age to marry?

Question 1:  How do you handle relationship questions from your family?

Dating Story: How good are our hosts and giving and receiving gifts.

Question 2:  What’s an appropriate gift during the different stages of a relationship?

It doesn’t take long for a conversation about sex and sleeping to get uncomfortable.  Yet our hosts persist and somehow start talking about waking up to giant dolls.  On the topic of sleeping, regardless of how old you are if you are not married do you sleep in the same bed when visiting your parents? Erik tells a story about an ex’s father who introduced himself with a cup of coffee, a smoke and nod.  Tom shares what would make him speak up if he didn’t like someone’s significant other and don’t get touchy feely with Allison in public.

Poll Question: Does sex help or hurt your sleep?

Question 1: How to meet the family?

Dating Story: Our hosts share stories from their past about meeting the families of people they’ve dated.

Question 2: How do you tell someone you love the person they’re dating is a horrible person?

After taking a week off Single, Married, Divorced begins a new season of relationship talk with an exit interview.  Not their exit interview but one a Twitter user sent to people she dated both casually and seriously. Tom tells us he likes to take baths.  We’ll just leave it at that.  Allison shares how a friend and her husband made a deal to have sex everyday for year!   SMD also talks STDs.

Poll Question: The exit interview.

Question 1: What habits are deal breakers for you?

Dating Story: Sex 365.

Question 2: How do you bring up an STD?

The poll question this week takes Allison on a journey back to the dark days of her divorce but there is a reason she says she’s, “happily divorced.”  She also reveals another sign her marriage probably shouldn’t have happened in the first place.  Tom breaks down why he thinks women are happiest when a marriage goes south.  Erik presses Allison on her dating since her divorce and reveals an interesting breaking point.

Poll Question:Who’s happier when a marriage ends?

Question 1: My significant other is sick can I still break it off?

Dating Question: Felony dinning, dating and ditching.

Question 2: Is changing your name still a thing when people get married?

This week’s show is packed full of fun.  The SMD hosts try and figure out  if finding the right scent is key to finding the right mate.  Allison shares a story about a woman who doesn’t wear deodorant for love.  The conversation quickly devolves into who was the “smelly kid” growing up.  Tom and Erik agree on the absolute wrong way to end a relationship which leads Allison to do a little soul searching.  Allison also thinks she’s diagnosed Erik’s issues with finding the right woman.

Question 1: Beth on Facebook asks-When to say when on a relationship?

Dating Story: UPDATE-The ghost texts Erik out of no where. What should he do?

Question 2: Should you invite your in-laws to a bachelor or bachelorette party?

This week our team tries to figure out why more women are turning their backs on the usual dating apps and opting for one that matches them with a “Sugar Daddy.”  Our three hosts first define what a sugar daddy is and ask if there are different levels of sugar “daddiness?”  Tom asked the question on everyone’s minds-When it comes to a Sugar Daddy must sex be part of the transaction?   Allison tells us about a friend who was offered a job, then wound up with her boss paying her rent.  Our dating story takes place in a Hooters and involves a medical emergency that has nothing to with spicy wings. It’s a story that has Erik recalling the time he spent an entire afternoon in the ER with a woman he hardly knew.

Question 1: What’s a Sugar Daddy?

Dating Story: Invest in a Hooters and good medical insurance.

Question 2: When is the right time to meet the family?

A study published in the New York Post reports loneliness is harder on your body than obesity.  Erik tells us about his most lonely birthday.  Tom tells us how happy he is to have the house to himself…for a while anyway. Allison never had a chance to get lonely because she has never lived alone.  Ever! Allison and Tom also come up with a dating scenario that puts Erik between two young women.

Poll Question: What’s worse for your health obesity or loneliness?

Question 1: What’s the difference between being comfortable and being lonely?

Dating Story: Two women, one guy, two observers.

Question 2: When you date a single parent- who pays the babysitter?