Is “Playing House” a Losing Game?

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Author of “A Little Bit Married” Discusses When It’s Time to Get Hitched or Move On
(CBS) A quarter of unmarried Americans say that they are in committed romantic relationships. But could “playing house” be a losing game for these 6.7 million monogamous adults?
Journalist Hannah Seligson, the author of the new book “A Little Bit Married: [...]

Successful skating pairs reveal what makes their on-ice relationship work

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BY NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Boy meets girl. Boy picks up girl. Boy tries to not drop girl on her head.
This is the world of pairs figure skating and ice dancing, the beautiful sports where a woman and man skate in unison across the ice.
But how do these skaters meet? How do they stay together? And [...]

The Silent Ways He Says “I Love You”

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Some brave guy friends broke the male code of silence. If he does any of the following, he’s pretty much saying, you know, that phrase.

1. You catch him staring at your eyes.
The eyes are more than just windows to a man’s soul, they can also be a tattletale to what’s welling in his heart. Men [...]

Kissing Frogs in Cyberspace gives us online dating humor – and horrors

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By Rinsky

Thinking back to our high school English teachers, we may wonder what the heck they would know about online dating. Or dating at all, for that matter.
But Dianne Sweeney, a Marana native who now teaches high school English in California, has learned enough about the online dating scene to write a whole book about [...]

What it feels like to rediscover sex in your fifties

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By Susan Seligson
Why should your sex life dry up when you reach middle age? Susan Seligson says hers just keeps on getting better

I came of age sexually at the start of the 1970s. These were the sexual salad days of a generation, in that rose-coloured window between the appearance of the pill and the onslaught [...]

OnLove: Psychologist-author Robert Epstein says love isn’t accidental

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By Ellen McCarthy
Robert Epstein believes that someday, in the not-too-distant future, many Americans will share his philosophy on relationships. And his philosophy is this: You can build love deliberately and choose whom to do it with.
All of this “falling” stuff, he thinks, will become passé.
Epstein is a psychologist and author whose previous research has focused [...]

The Truth About Dating: The year of the cheaters

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Too much emphasis placed on appearance

By Steve Penner
In a recent article published in USA Today, Todd Shackleford, a psychology professor at Florida Atlantic University, who has been studying infidelity for more than 20 years, states that people with low scores on personality tests that measure conscientiousness and high scores on openness to experience also are [...]

Treading the line between mom and ex-wife

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By Carolyn Hax
Dear Carolyn:
My husband and I divorced a year ago. We are both proud that we are still dear friends. We have two kids, 13 and 16.
Three months ago, my ex met a woman through an online dating site. Since then, I realized after much deliberation that I wanted to give our relationship another [...]

Cops: Florida woman attacked disabled boyfriend with uncooked steak

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DECEMBER 8–Meet Elsie Egan. The Florida woman, 53, is facing a felony domestic abuse charge for allegedly striking her boyfriend several times in the head with a raw steak, according to police. Egan, pictured in the below mug shot, was busted last night after a confrontation in the Dunnellon home she shares with Peter Schabhuttl. [...]

Flirting with disaster: the office romance

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By CARLA HINTON
The Oklahoman
The boss and your desk mate entered the Christmas party separately, but later she tells you they rode together and plan on leaving that way.  The two are dating, she whispers, and admonishes you to keep it to yourself.
All of a sudden, the hors d’oeuvres you’ve consumed have made you queasy. It’s [...]

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