In Love

  • I’m Just Not That In To You.
    In Love

    I’m Just Not That In To You.

    Most people in the grip of infatuation are crazy. Maybe not crazy in the medical sense, but infatuated people tend to behave in an irrational, obsessive manner when it comes to the object of their affections, even if they’re perfectly reasonable about everything else.

  • Why Do People Cheat?
    Advice

    Why Do People Cheat?

    It comes as a surprise to nobody that men and women are wired differently. Women and men both cheat, but their reasons for doing so can be very different. This entry will focus on women, the one on men will be coming shortly.

  • Falling Out of Love
    Advice

    Falling Out of Love

    The reasons for falling out of love are as varied as falling in love. The click is no longer there and as sad as it makes you feel, you know the relationship is over. What can you do about it?

  • Cooking As a Couple
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    Cooking As a Couple

    Tonight, switch the television off, turn the lights down low, get that favorite music playing in the background and ready yourselves for the best meal you and your lover have ever had together. Cornbread and milk. But, as with everything else worthwhile in life, the excitement doesn’t begin with the first bite.

  • From Total Intimacy to Total Strangers
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    From Total Intimacy to Total Strangers

    ...One day, after 6 months…one year…two years, those butterflies turned to moths and started tearing at your clothes, then your heart. How did that bubble burst?

  • Sometimes, That Old Flame is a Trick Candle
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    Sometimes, That Old Flame is a Trick Candle

    With enough positives to raise hopes but enough negatives to raise doubts, sometimes that old flame is a trick candle, impervious to the first attempt...

  • Breaking Tradition
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    Breaking Tradition

    In 2007, I got engaged and nearly had a nervous breakdown while pursuing a career that I did not like, and planning a type of wedding that I did not want.

  • The Unconventional Dater
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    The Unconventional Dater

    Getting inebriated and adding another notch to your ever-expanding belt seems to be the new form of dating. How romantic. However, there are a few places outside the confines...

  • To Pre-Nup Or Not To Pre-Nup
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    To Pre-Nup Or Not To Pre-Nup

    I don’t see a marriage as just an emotional or physical union, but as a financial one as well. Some people think of prenuptial agreements as divorce insurance, while others think that the mere mention of the word “prenup” instantly kills a relationship.

  • Moving in Together
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    Moving in Together

    You wouldn’t buy a car without ever test driving it, would you? I tell you what, if my grandparents would have had the chance to live together before they got married, they would have saved themselves fifty plus years of silent, probably sexless, resentful cohabitation.