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Your Call: 38 and Want a Baby But He’s Not Ready

photo by Daquella_manera Dear Em & Lo, I’m 38 and have been with my boyfriend a little over two years. He recently told me he is not and will not be ready for a family and marriage for at least two more years because he is having financial issues. I am ready now, or at […]

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Your Call: Do His Fantasies Mean He’ll Cheat?

Dear Em & Lo, I’m a 23-year-old woman who has been in a relationship with my partner for over a year and a half. The sex is good, but I recently found out my partner fantasizes about other women he has seen whilst he has been out with me, or out on his own. How […]

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Comment of the Week: The Popsicle Solution

DIY popsicle mold, $9.99 at Amazon Earlier this week we published a letter from a reader who loves playing with ice in bed…but hates the way it freezes her fingers. She asked for a solution, and you guys came through! “One word — popsicle. Put a few sticks in the ice cube tray. And prepare […]

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Your Call: How Can I Stop Ice from Numbing My Fingers in Bed?

photo by Kyle_May Dear Em & Lo, We’ve had exceptionally hot weather for the last few days and my boyfriend and I thought this was the perfect time to get some ice cubes from the freezer for a bit of kink. I absolutely adored the chilling touch of the melting ice, it was an absolute […]

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Your Call: Can a Bad Boyfriend Make a Good Booty Call?

photo by _StaR_DusT_ Dear Em & Lo, I am in a situation where I can’t let go of my ex boyfriend. We dated for almost a year and in the beginning I felt loved, but as time went on he stopped calling. He wouldn’t answer my calls, didn’t reply to my texts — and that […]

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Your Call: Can You Ask Your Exes for Charitable Contributions?

photo by Daquella Manera Dear Em & Lo, In September I will participate in a charity event that depends on donations from people I know to raise money. In order to make my fundraising goal, I’m going to email everyone I know. Is it tasteless to include exes who may not really like me anymore […]

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Your Call: How Do I Find Out If My Co-Worker Digs Me?

photo by mtkopone Dear Em & Lo, I like a guy that I work with (I’m an office assistant and he’s a mechanic) but I’m not 100% sure that he likes me back. I don’t get many opportunities to talk to him privately at work as other people are quite often around, including his mother […]

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Your Call: A “Business Trip” Then a “Broken Foot” — Is He Lying?

movie poster via SassyPanda Dear Em & Lo, Two months ago I met a man online, we went out on a first date and hit it off immediately.  We saw each other a few days later, and had sex after that date.  We continued to see each other over the course of the month two […]

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Your Call: Pick the Official Term for Those Who Date Much Older People

photo by rileyroxx A while back, in response to a sincere question from a 19-year-old vocab nerd who’s dating a 28 year old, we asked for your help in coming up with a term for her. We asked that it be something positive that suggested these women aren’t simply shallow gold diggers but may actually […]

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Your Call: Should She Give a Cheater a Chance?

photo by cupcakes2 Dear Em & Lo, My boyfriend and I have been together for a year and a half. I love him very much but have recently found out that he likes another girl. We have spoken about it and he says that nothing has happened but he is tempted by her everytime he […]

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Your Call: He Doesn't Want Marriage or Kids. Should I Move On?

photo by Clean_Wal-Mart We feel just awful that we can’t answer every single advice question we get, but we figure that any answer is better than no answer at all. Which is why, once a week, we’ll let you guys decide how to advise a reader. Make your call by filling out the poll after […]

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Your Call: What’s a Good Term for Those Who Date Much Older People?

About a week and a half ago, a reader responded to a post about the charming new term “hyena” being used to describe sexually aggressive teen girls: Have they come up for a term for younger girls who date much older men, or even something besides cradle-robber, for older men who date younger women? I’d […]

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Your Call: My GF Almost Had a Fling…Then Tells Me the Guy Looks Like a Pornstar!

photo by macsurak We feel just awful that we can’t answer every single advice question we get, but we figure that any answer is better than no answer at all. Which is why, once a week, we’ll let you guys decide how to advise a reader. Make your call by filling out the poll after […]

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Your Call: Should She Fight for Her Ex?

photo by briannaorg We feel just awful that we can’t answer every single advice question we get, but we figure that any answer is better than no answer at all. Which is why, once a week, we’ll let you guys decide how to advise a reader. Make your call by filling out the poll after […]

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Your Call: Should She Go Downtown?

photo by iandeth We feel just awful that we can’t answer every single advice question we get, but we figure that any answer is better than no answer at all. Which is why, once a week, we’ll let you guys decide how to advise a reader. Make your call by filling out the poll after […]