"You play, you pay."

When I was very young (15), I had a much older bf. He had a jealous streak and after telling my mother that he had followed me one night when I went out with my gf's, she told me not to let a man control me. She said "your world will just get smaller and smaller". I still live by that advice. She was a smart lady!

If you're fighting about someone leaving their socks on the floor, you're not fighting about the socks.

"I want your motto to be: Get a Date in '08"

Heather, I think that's a platform we can all get behind. Plus it's catchy!

My mom's been married three times, so there has never been much in way of romantic advice.

The best advice my father ever gave me was, after he caught me mopey and a little weepy after a break-up. He came over, put his shoulder around me - and I'm paraphrasing now - and said, "There, there, boy. Shut up." A wise man, a wise man.

I lean on romantic comedies for most of my guidance.

Here are 2 fabulous things that my mother told me:

1) Love is like a shadow: if you chase it, you'll never catch it. If you leave it alone, it will follow you.

2) Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free? (This is in reference to why boys won't commit if you give it up to them)

My mama said "You can't hurry love. No, you just have to wait". She said, "Trust, give it time. No matter how long it takes"
Wait, that wasn't my mama. That was Diana Ross. Same difference

I find that mother's (a lot of women in general not all)give very bad advice to their sons and other important males in their lives. My mother was right to say "just as long as I was happy that all that matters".

On my weding day, my mom gave me a card with the following inscribed:

To keep love flowing
and to fill your loving cup,
Whenever you're wrong admit it,
And whenever you're right shut up.