If you’re a faithful reader of EMandLO.com, then you know we love us a good Ted Talk. So we were thrilled to discover that the two of us were in one! Well, just a fleeting picture of us, but we’ll take what we can get. Our old boss, Nerve.com-founder Rufus Griscom, went on to found [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 20, 2010
photo by mikebaird Monogamy gets a bad rap these days — people say it’s unnatural, impossible, outdated, stifling. And, yes, sometimes it is! Especially if your wedding anniversary now contains two digits. But anything worth fighting for will usually put you through the ringer, and monogamy is no exception. So before your partner’s bad habits [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, October 14, 2010
As recently as the ’90s, Em was horrified to hear her college roommate say that she was at school to get three letters: MRS. It was said kind of tongue-in-cheek… but not completely. The ironic thing was that back then, having a college degree actually meant that a woman was less likely to get married…and [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, October 12, 2010
photo by MissTurner 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 have been having the same dream for about two weeks now, nearly every night. Let me start from the [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 9, 2010
photo by mrsraggle Other people’s dreams are never interesting…except when they’re about love and sex. Each week, our dream analyst Lauri Loewenberg tells one lucky reader what their dirty dream means. This week, a reader asks Lauri: My husband passed away this past January and since then I’ve had a lot of dreams about him. [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, August 3, 2010
photo by HarmonyWeddingPhotography.com “Equally Wed” is the new online magazine for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender couples who are tying the knot (legally or not). It’s got the typical bridal magazine stuff that just feeds the Nuptial Industrial Complex — like fashion, beauty and fitness items with tips from experts, trends and products. (Yawn.) What [...]
Continue reading...Friday, July 9, 2010
We, Em & Lo, worked with and are friends with (and Lo was apt-mates with) Jessica Baumgardner, who married Irad Eyal, which is our connection to the new book “Sex Degrees of Separation.” Irad has just turned his unhealthy obsession with celebrity hook-ups into an exhaustive encyclopedia that combines the idea of “six degrees of [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, June 24, 2010
Would you ever entertain the idea of an open marriage?online survey Can’t see the poll? Click here to take it.
Continue reading...Thursday, May 20, 2010
When we reviewed the book The Husbands and Wives Club: A Year in the Life of a Couples Therapy Group a few weeks back, we wrote: “Here are five couples who reject — albeit under the firm hand of a skilled therapist — the notion that there are only two acceptable narratives when it comes [...]
Continue reading...Friday, May 14, 2010
Warning: only hardcore nerds — or those with a soft spot for hardcore nerds — will find this YouTube footage (below) touching. Game designer Anders Howard, with the help of his friends, designed a video game to propose to his girlfriend Steffany; he got friends and family together for a launch event of the game [...]
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Friday, January 7, 2011
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