IN July 2006, Ron James's marriage of 13 years ended, and that same month, he joined JDate, an online matchmaking site for Jewish singles. "I'd fallen...
Victoria Namkung | Posted 08.06.2009 | Style
As if there wasn't enough anxiety around the topic of love. Then you throw in money and etiquette and a first date can become about as exciting as a trip to the dentist office.
DivineCaroline | Posted 08.03.2009 | Living
I've learned some valuable things about life, love, and being female over the past half-century. Here is the advice I try to pass on to younger women ...
YourTango | Posted 08.02.2009 | Living
What's your type? Talk, dark and handsome? Short, bald and chubby? Muscular, unavailable and angry? How about Explorer, Builder, Negotiator or Directo...
Lisa Daily | Posted 08.02.2009 | Living
Want to know when you're most likely to get the axe? Most experts agree it's somewhere in the neighborhood of the first 3-5 months if you're dating, or around the eight-year mark for married couples.
Margaret Ruth | Posted 07.31.2009 | Living
The healthy happy whole folks would not sooner date a very troubled person that a troubled person would date a healthy happy one. They are not attracted to each other.
DivineCaroline | Ashley Nelson | Posted 07.27.2009 | Living
When my boyfriend announced that he was getting Lasik surgery a few months ago, I was unnerved. Glasses are my thing--one of those obscure attributes ...
The Stimulist | Posted 07.26.2009 | Living
Boy meets Girl where boys meet girls: online, in a bar, at the gym, through a friend. He finds her cute, but it's not love at first sight. No. It's lo...
Jenni Schaefer | Posted 07.20.2009 | Living
My challenge today is to recognize insane ways of thinking and then to move in the direction of positive change.
Sara Davidson | Posted 07.18.2009 | Living
"What do you want to do?" I asked Billy. He smiled and said, "Date all three of you. You're all busy, and I have enough time for all of you."
npr.org | Brenda Wilson | Posted 07.17.2009 | Living
The hookup -- that meeting and mating ritual that started among high school and college students -- is becoming a trend among young people who have en...
Karen Luniw | Posted 07.11.2009 | Style
We all will move heaven and earth to be with the person we really want to be with and if someone is not doing that for you, don't make up excuses for them.
Pauline Millard | Posted 07.10.2009 | Living
There is something about being a 28-year-old urban woman that makes them flip the switch from party girl to marriage material that often has nothing to do with a ticking biological clock.
The Root | Jenee Desmond-Harris | Posted 07.09.2009 | Style
America has fallen for the Obamas. The history, the high glamour, the PDAs on the White House lawn. It's a universal picture of love. But for many suc...
Jodi Lipper and Cerina Vincent | Posted 07.07.2009 | Style
If you're single, why not take this opportunity to find yourself a magical, memorable spring fling, one that will invigorate you and might end up being the birth of a significant relationship?
AP | MEGAN K. SCOTT | Posted 07.05.2009 | Business
NEW YORK — Sean Hamilton considered stopping his search for that special someone when he lost his job in January. With 90 percent less income and...
Dr. Alex Benzer | Posted 07.05.2009 | Living
If he's putting you down instead of lifting you up, it's time for him to go. Like, now.
Momlogic | Dr. Michelle Golland | Posted 07.04.2009 | Living
The firestorm around how they got to NYC and the issue of spending taxpayer money is not one I care to address. However, I do believe seeing the First...
Margaret Ruth | Posted 07.02.2009 | Living
The rule is that it takes Two Happy Healthy Whole People to make One Happy Healthy Whole relationship -- and there are No Exceptions to this rule.
Margaret Ruth | Posted 07.02.2009 | Living
I really feel an intense heart connection with this man and I can't seem to let it go. I have been in tears and my soul is aching.
YourTango | Tom Miller | Posted 06.29.2009 | Living
Every week or so, this space throws out a fun relationship suggestion that's easy on the wallet. This time around, it's exercise. First of all, exerc...
Recessionwire | Laura Rich | Posted 06.28.2009 | Living
First dates at Le Cirque and second dates in St. Barth's are out (for me, and maybe you, they were never in, but you get the point). Everyone's feelin...
Vicki Iovine | Posted 06.22.2009 | Living
One of the few bright promises sustaining me while trudging through a divorce is Sex With a Stranger. I haven't had it yet, nor do I see any immediate...
Amy Goldwasser | Posted 06.20.2009 | Entertainment
So I loved a storyteller. Don't we all? Is there anything more seductive, really?
Margaret Ruth | Posted 06.19.2009 | Living
Those of us who want authentic, healthy relationships have no choice but to know ourselves, so that others may know us as well.
New York Times | Michael Winerip | Posted 08.06.2009 | Style