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WATCH: Expert Tips For Summer Lovin'!

2012-05-23T16:47:26Z

It may not officially be summer yet, but the change in weather always puts a certain spring in our step. So we thought it would be fun to put together...

Read more: Marlo Thomas, Mondays With Marlo, Expert Love Tips, Slideshow, Slideexpand, Love and Relationships, Summer Love, Love Advice, Women News

O'Brien Browne: Thoughts for College Dropouts: Love, Part II

2012-05-24T22:58:30Z

This is Part II of "Love," started on the 8th of last month. I didn't plan on a Part II because I thought this little blog should be pointed and pithy...

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Justin Huang: You Don't Need To Be In A Relationship To Live Your Life Romantically

2012-05-24T18:15:00Z

A "slut" is what haters call a liberated person, and that's what I am. I'm liberated. And the most liberating truth I've learned in the past few years has been this: You don't need to be in a relationship to live your life romantically.

Read more: Singles, Living Romantically, Love and Relationships, Romance, Self-Love, Single Status, Being Single, Love, Love and Romance, Singletons, Gay Voices News

Tasha Gordon-Solmon: The Bachelorette Week 2 Recap: I'd Rather Have Miss Piggy as My Mom

2012-05-24T17:06:35Z

Here's the other thing: Miss Piggy is so much more charismatic than Emily. It was almost unfair they had to share screen time. There was a running gag of Piggy getting jealous of Em and Kermit. And despite Kermit's best efforts to compliment Emily, it was clear he's way out of her league.

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Kitty Stryker: The Girlfriend Experience

2012-05-24T16:28:00Z

I wrote a post last week about the reality of being a sex worker in a relationship, explaining that it's sometimes good, sometimes hard, often complicated. Well, I have intimate experience with one of the greatest media-fed taboos in sex-worker romances: I fell in love with a client once.

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Cristen Conger: What You Should Always Bring Up On A First Date

2012-05-24T16:09:45Z

Politics is one of the four topics -- alongside money, sex and religion -- Emily Post says young ladies must never, ever broach on a first date. Here's why women should ignore that advice.

Read more: Marriage, Politics, Political Parties, 2012 Presidential Election, Relationship Advice, Love and Relationships, Romance, Dating Advice, Sociology, Dating, Social Science, Online Dating, Dating Tips, Etiquette, Democrats, Love, Republicans, Women and Politics, Women News

Do Men Find Dumb-Looking Women More Attractive?

2012-05-24T09:52:06Z

Ask a straight man, "How do you like your women?" and it’s unlikely he’ll answer, "Dumb and sleepy." But according to new findings, these characte...

Read more: Male Sexual Preference, Female Appearance, Relationships, One-Night-Stand, Love, Dumb Women, Dating, Women News

Catherine Meeks, Ph.D.: Live Without Fear, Because God Loves You Like A Mother

2012-05-24T07:01:37Z

Each person will have to come to terms with their own fears in their own way. The most helpful first step is to have the intention to live without fear and then to seek every path that will help in realizing that intention.

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Kristin Boekhoff: The Princess and the Power: A Fairy Tale for Modern Women

2012-05-23T17:40:02Z

As a businesswoman, I learned to think and act like a man because to rise to the top. Now, twenty years later, successful but single at the age of 37, I no longer feel comfortable in my "female skin."

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Stephanie Sarkis, Ph.D.: The List Method: How to Find 'The One'

2012-05-23T17:30:29Z

Once you specify what you are looking for in a mate, it's amazing how quickly that person can arrive in your life. Or you may discover that someone who has been in your life for a while just happens to be exactly who you were looking for.

Read more: Relationships, Love and Relationships, Mr. Right, Mr. Right Qualities, Mrs. Right, Law of Attraction, The One, Love, Mrs. Right Qualities, Healthy Living News

Charlie Maffei: Courage

2012-05-23T15:37:00Z

As you meet your next special someone, have the courage to overlook tiny imperfections. Too many of us overlook wonderful people in hopes that someone better might be right around the corner. Find the courage to be a little less scrutinizing.

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Molly Hahn: Buddha Doodle -- Change

2012-05-23T12:35:21Z

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Dr. Judith Rich: Finding Paradise In The Exotic And The Ordinary

2012-05-23T07:00:12Z

The truth is, every moment has this potential seeded within it, for paradise is what we bring to the moment through our willingness to open and be receptive to the beauty that is already there.

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Nina Camp: Why I Can Only Love an Addict

2012-05-23T08:58:20Z

He didn't really abandon me, since he couldn't really have stayed. If I can't be abandoned, and I can't control or fail to control someone else's behavior, then I can start to love.

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Nikki Novo: Do We Really Need to Leave Miami to Find a Romantic Partner? Or Is That Just an Urban Legend?

2012-05-22T15:29:24Z

OK, so we have bad rep. But there are people out there who find each other, get married, buy a house in Coral Gables or Belle Meade, and create 2.5 children. I know because I see them on Facebook.

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He Bullied Me In High School -- And Then He Asked Me Out

2012-05-22T09:48:07Z

My prep school may have been home to the offspring of politicians, federal judges and national media personalities, but first and foremost we were tee...

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'Girls' Breaks Yet Another Taboo

2012-05-22T09:37:57Z

We don't need a reminder from HBO's Girls that we've become fairly open with talking about sex. Except, perhaps, when it's parent sex. Nobody wants to...

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New Website Tells You If You Should End Your Relationship

2012-05-18T17:04:23Z

Usually the "should I dump my significant other" conversation happens with a close friend possibly over brunch, or maybe on the phone with your mother...

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How to Deal When You're Working With an Ex

2012-05-21T14:19:43Z

Jennifer Winter | The Daily Muse

Meeting a significant other at the office is, well, not really that uncommon. And, while it'd be nice if all relat...

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Laura Dave: 7 Days to A Better Breakup

2012-05-21T17:43:00Z

Here is a seven-day plan to help make that first week after a breakup as pain-free as possible.

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W. Hunter Roberts: A Christian Pastor's Thoughts On Same-Sex Marriage

2012-05-21T11:52:07Z

Jesus was more interested in love than he was in rules. That was what got him into so much trouble with the fundamentalists of his day

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James Sims: Fighting My Mother's Cancer With Text Messages

2012-05-21T08:21:10Z

"I love you. Was just thinking how hard my fight has been and how tired I am... But then I thought about you and it gives me a shot of will power to keep going."

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Margaret Wheeler Johnson: I Told Everyone About My Breakup -- Except Him

2012-05-21T07:19:34Z

There's no reason I shouldn't tell him. She and I are seeing other people now. I'm over it. And yet I still can't bring myself to say the words.

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LISTEN: Your Fearless Playlist -- Be Fearless In Love!

2012-05-19T11:20:22Z

Hurting from a breakup? Want to tell your so-called "significant other" to eff off? On the prowl for a new main squeeze? This playlist has your back!
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She Broke My Heart -- And Then I Found Out Her Secret

2012-05-18T11:17:24Z

We were nestled in the relationship sweet spot: lying on separate sofas watching Gwyneth Paltrow deliver her Oscar acceptance speech for Shakespeare i...

Read more: Infidelity, Heartache, Relationships, Dating, Moving On, Mariage, Broken Hearts, Love, Couples, Women News