Remember when marriage vows actually meant something? Couples actually would adhere to “I promise to be true to you in good times and in bad, in sickness and in health. I will love you and honor you all the days of my life.” The phrase, all the days of my life seem to actually mean, “until we come to a major hurdle in our marriage.”
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13
Jun 2010
Category: Relationship Advice, Relationships
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11
Apr 2010
We like to think that numbers do not matter. Women don’t judge their weight by the number of pounds but by how their clothes feel. Men are concerned with the number of inches hanging between their legs and the number of dollars in their bank account.
Category: Dating Advice
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19
Jan 2010
Let’s face it, when your partner physically changes throughout the course of your relationship, it can be positive or negative. Here, I’d like to focus on negative changes, the most familiar of which being weight gain.
Category: Relationship Advice, Tips and Tricks
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05
Jan 2010
I just finished a book by one of my guilty pleasure authors, Jane Green, that got me thinking about the balance between changing for the benefit of a relationship and maintaining one’s individuality. Green writes whimsical love stories that always have a happy ending. I enjoy her books because I get to escape into a surreal world in London where passion and love reignite the protagonists’ zest for life. In A Second Chance, Holly changed everything about herself to “fit” perfectly with her husband’s ideal image of a wife. After 14 years of marriages, Holly realizes she had never been happy with the relationship and she doesn’t like who she had become. She knew she wasn’t a great match for her husband in the beginning, but she gave in to the comfort and ease of marrying him. I won’t spoil the end, but let’s just say it spurred my curiosity about why some people change their identity to conform to their mate’s image of an ideal partner.
Category: Relationship Advice, Relationships
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15
Sep 2009
Everyone has a list… a list of people you are allowed to sleep with while you’re in a relationship. For some, the realization of this list may not actually be “allowed,” but the list exists nonetheless.
In the beginning of my four year relationship, my boyfriend and I both mentioned people on our respective lists. I originally thought it was strange to talk about other people we lusted after, but times have changed and the list continues to evolve. I’ve seen a few of the people on my list recently and wasn’t impressed. They have since been replaced.
Category: Sex
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