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"In writing a marriage and sex column, I&amp;#039;m constantly finding the balance between relating to my audience in a public way and keeping parts of my life private. (Emphasis on the &amp;quot;private&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;parts&amp;quot;.) If I say too much, people comment that I have no shame. If I don&amp;#039;t say enough, I&amp;#039;m lambasted for being fake, elitist or stuffy. After almost 3 years of syndication at Shine, I&amp;#039;ve found a balance I&amp;#039;m genuinely happy with. If someone doesn&amp;#039;t like my Good Housekeeping column, they don&amp;#039;t have to read it. If they enjoy it, and many of you do, I am honored that you keep coming back for more, as well as your positive and honest responses. (I especially love hearing from you via email. Please write me at Andrea@Goodhousekeeping.com.) As evidenced in this last post, some of you never learned the art of graciousness. I did indeed, as you pointed out, make a few typos. You&amp;#039;d have thought the world was coming to an end! It didn&amp;#039;t bother me that some of you didn&amp;#039;t like my &amp;quot;how I met my husband&amp;quot; story. (Newsflash: I didn&amp;#039;t misspell the word &amp;quot;Meet&amp;quot; in the title &amp;quot;My Piece of Meet.&amp;quot; It&amp;#039;s a double entendre. Sorry if that slipped past ya.) It doesn&amp;#039;t bother me if you don&amp;#039;t care for my writing style. I can completely see how my voice might not appeal to everyone. It never ceases to amaze me, however, how insanely rude commenters can be. It&amp;#039;s as if some of you don&amp;#039;t think I ever read this. Or worse, you don&amp;#039;t care. There are no filters. No thoughts. Just animalistic responses (often in worse English than I was being chastised for) to some small offense. On an even sadder note about how small-minded people can be, if one person makes a ridiculous knuckle-dragging response, it&amp;#039;s as if a torch is waved for all sheep to baaaah even louder. Is this what our world is coming to? Is this why 50% of our marriages fail? Is there no room for error? No room for the occasional mistake? Are we all so ADHD &amp;quot;Rat going after the cheese&amp;quot; Pavlov-dog oriented that we can&amp;#039;t stand back for a second, process what we don&amp;#039;t like (or understand) and write about it in an intelligent way? Again, I&amp;#039;m not saying you have to love my stuff. And truthfully, it&amp;#039;s not any skin off my back if you think I&amp;#039;m an idiot. But for the sake of your relationships, your children and the public in general, I&amp;#039;m urging everyone to take a step back before they talk and post. In closing, I am not perfect. A few years back I got into a terrible fight with someone and lashed out in some verbal ways I am not proud of. It&amp;#039;s something I vow to never do again. And for all you out there who find it easier to point out flaws - not just my writing but in everyone you meet - I urge you to take a moment and think how you can grow into a more enlightened human being. What response could you give to change the situation in a positive way? Thanks for listening. I apologize in advance for any typos in this post. It just so happens that I am raising a family who needs me. Occasionally I let a comma slip in favor of a hug for my children, a glass of water for my spouse, and cup of coffee for myself. Until the weekend, let&amp;#039;s all use our nice words, shall we? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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