Cheaters
Pop Culture
The Way We Stray Today – An Excerpt from “Marriage Confidential”

Pamela Haag‘s new book “Marriage Confidential” has one of the best subtitles we’ve seen in a long time: “The Post-Romantic Age of Workhorse Wives, Royal Children, Undersexed Spouses, and Rebel Couples Who Are Rewriting the Rules.” That’s a lot to live up to, but the book delivers. And it’s getting good buzz. Below is an […]

Dream Interpretation
Dream Interpretation: I Expose Myself to My Imaginary Crush

photo from the Guardian UK 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: Here’s my dream: I’m married to a very old and wealthy man that I do not love, and […]

Dear Em & Lo
Your Call: Is She Justified in Cheating on Her Boyfriend?

We get a lot of advice questions coming in at EMandLO.com, but sadly, we just can’t answer them all. Which is why, once a week, we turn to you to decide how best to advise a reader. Make your call by leaving your advice in the comments section below: Dear Em & Lo, The guy […]

Confessions
Comment of the Week: Sexuality Does Not Determine Integrity

SEXUALITY DOES NOT DETERMINE INTEGRITY. PERIOD. And since faithfulness has it roots in integrity, sexuality doesn’t determine it any more than race, hair color, height, gender, etc. Each individual makes a CONSCIOUS decision as to whether or not they are going to be faithful. I’m straight and married to a bi-sexual, and I “hang” just […]

Confessions
Comment of the Week: Are Bisexuals More Likely to Cheat?

For the record, when we select a Comment of the Week, it’s not necessarily an endorsement of that commenter’s opinion — rather, it’s a comment that we feel is interesting for some reason: for the debate it sparks, perhaps, or the buttons it pushes. And it’s in that spirit that we present the following fairly […]

Wise Guys
Wise Guys – Would You Accept a Free Pass for a One-Night Stand?

photo by balinto Advice from three of our guy friends. This week they answer the following: “If a guy’s partner told him that he could have a one-night stand with a stranger, no questions asked, and it was guaranteed that his partner wouldn’t freak out about it later — would most guys take their partner […]

What's Up Doc?
Dream Interpretation: Preggers with My Ex's Baby

photo by karindaiziel 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: In real-life, I was seeing my now-ex and my current boyfriend at the same time — they both knew about […]

Research
How to Study Sex Without Being a Sucker

image by Caveman_92223 As regular readers of this blog will know, one of our pet peeves is when scientific research about sex and love gets twisted and “re-interpreted” and boiled down and sexed up to make a juicy magazine or newspaper headline. (And yes, we have definitely been guilty of this tendency ourselves, at times. […]

Dear Em & Lo
Your Call: Will This Online Fling Lead to Anything?

Share your advice for this reader in the comments section below… Dear Em & Lo, There is this guy I have been talking to online. Both of us feel that vibe in the air and we know we are so right for each other. He has girlfriend, but still he enjoys his time and shares […]

Dream Interpretation
Dream Interpretation: My Girlfriend Married an Old Man

photo by travis simon 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 boyfriend of two years, whom I completely trust, told me that he had a dream where I was […]

Dream Interpretation
Dream Interpretation – I Almost Cheated on My Military Husband

photo by DVIDSHUB 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 husband has been gone getting ready to deploy for Afghanistan and there have been some issues with us thinking […]

Dear Em & Lo
Your Call – Should You Have Extracurricular Sex If Given Permission?

photo by batega Dear Em & Lo, First off, I will say that I love my boyfriend. We are extremely compatible in almost every way. Except sex, and here’s why. About two years ago my boyfriend ruptured a testicle. Sex is now extremely painful for him and he has difficulty reaching orgasm. As a result […]

Dream Interpretation
Dream Interpretation – I Almost Cheated on My Boyf with My Manager

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: Just for some context: this was just after a fight where my boyfriend wanted to take a break, and I definitely didn’t. I’m […]

Dream Interpretation
Dream Interpretation – I Made Out with My Real-Life Crush But We're Both Married

photo by elsie esq 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: I work a night job in a warehouse with a lot of men and I have become […]

Dear Em & Lo
And You Thought Your Ex Was the Biggest Sh*t on the Planet

Okay, we admit there isn’t exactly a lot to debate in this week’s edition of Your Call. Clearly this woman should leave her boyfriend, a.k.a. the Biggest Asshole Who Ever Lived. But we wanted to publish this letter anyway because (a) This poor woman needs a public record of all you telling her that she’s […]

Dear Em & Lo
An Update to "Should I Give My BF a Second Chance?"

photo by batega This past winter, “Torn” wrote in about her boyfriend of almost 3 years who’d recently cheated on her (possibly for the second time), only coming clean when she’d confronted him with evidence and then blaming it on her distance due to her intense vet school coursework, which he’d never mentioned before. She […]