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Tag Archive | "Marriage"

Dear Em & Lo – When Online Long-Distance Love Goes Wrong, Very Wrong

Friday, March 12, 2010

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photo from Arbron Dear Em & Lo, I am an 18-year-old girl and recently got engaged to a 30-year-old guy. We have an online long distance relationship. I really like the guy and he likes me too. Things were really awesome between us after our engagement, he used to be really romantic and we used to [...]

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Everything You Wanted to Know About Marriage But Were Afraid to Ask

Thursday, February 18, 2010

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Neither one of us ever read Elizabeth Gilbert’s bestselling memoir Eat, Pray, Love (soon to be a movie starring Julia Roberts) — we were both faintly annoyed by the idea of being along for the ride while some over-analytical divorcee worked through her problems on paper. But then Curtis Sittenfeld’s review of Gilbert’s Committed: A [...]

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The Rise of the Sugar Mama

Thursday, January 21, 2010

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photo via IMDB A recent study by the Pew Research Center, comparing marriages in 2007 with those in 1970, found that husbands whose wives earn more than they do jumped from 4% to 22%. This is partly because, for the first time ever, in the under 44 age group, more women than men have college degrees. [...]

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A Little Bit Married

Friday, January 15, 2010

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We recently spoke with Hannah Seligson about her new book “A Little Bit Married: How to Know When It’s Time to Walk Down the Aisle or Out the Door”: Why did you write this book? Personal experience? Of course! I’m my own guinea pig. After my first round of being A Little Bit Married, I became intrigued [...]

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Dream Interpretation: Engaged But Dreaming of My 1st Love

Monday, December 14, 2009

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photo by stevendepolo Other people’s dreams are never interesting…except when they’re about sex. Each week, our dream analyst Lauri Loewenberg tells one lucky reader what their dirty dream means. This week, a reader asks Lauri: I’m about to get married and I just dreamt of my first crush. I know he likes and loves me but he [...]

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No sex? Deal-breaker. No turkey together? That’s okay, says New York court.

Thursday, November 26, 2009

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photo by walknboston We hope that you’re sitting down to enjoy turkey (or tofurkey) with a loved one today. But if your loved one refuses to partake in the holiday celebration, we thought you should know that – acccording to a New York court, at least — that’s not as bad as refusing to partake in sex. [...]

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Dream Interpretaion: My Wife Keeps Dreaming About a Cop

Monday, November 9, 2009

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photo by conner395 Other people’s dreams are never interesting…except when they’re about sex. Each week, our dream analyst Lauri Loewenberg tells one lucky reader what their dirty dream means. This week, a reader asks Lauri: My wife and I were having a small rough patch months and months ago and she went out with some friends and [...]

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Dear Em & Lo: Should I Break Up with My College Boyfriend?

Friday, November 6, 2009

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photo by jeroen_bennink Dear Em & Lo, Some may call us v-card clingers, but my boyfriend and I have been together for three years now. Giving our virginity to each other was not our first first–we were incredibly inexperienced before meeting. Although the relationship began out of lust it has blossomed into much more. He’s my best [...]

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Naked News, Gay Marriage Edition

Monday, November 2, 2009

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summary of states attitudes on gay rights issues Maine residents will decide Tuesday whether to repeal a law allowing same-sex marriage, an effort that has succeeded in every state where it has been put before voters. Defenders and hates alike have descended on the state, where it seems the fight is neck and neck. Even Arlen Specter says [...]

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10 Reasons Why the First Marriage Rocks Our World

Thursday, October 29, 2009

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photo by cliff1066 The cover story in this weekend’s New York Times Magazine is about the First Marriage. It’s both inspiring and a little chastening — let’s see you be President or First Lady and still rock hot monogamy like that. And also a little terrifying — how would we ever recover from an Obama divorce? We’d lose faith [...]

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