relationships
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“Love yourself” is a relatively new cultural concept, which now seems everywhere in popular culture as life advice. This idea is often applied to romantic relationships: you must learn to love yourself before you can truly love or be loved. There’s rarely an actual reason given for this meme, since memes are always taken as
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Are “emotional affairs”….affairs?
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When she was only 14, Jane Austen wrote a novel called Love and Freindship (that’s right, she misspelled it), satirizing the tendency of her time to romanticize both attachments as passionate, “undying love.” In our own time and culture, romantic love is assumed to be the basis for marriage, so it makes sense that we
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The world’s most stupid romantic advice, in my opinion, is…Only fall in love with those who are in love with you. This bit of wisdom dates back to the Victorian era, when the rules of courtship for men and women were divided neatly into the active gender and the passive gender. You’ll have no trouble
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DONT: 1. Spend the afternoon the same way you normally do as a couple, then spring the bad news when you’re…
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… My mind went straight to this: Wait, this guy had a GIRLFRIEND? He was 63, a disgruntled loner, not a looker. I doubt he had Ted Bundy’s charm. So what the hell? Why do these men always seem to have a girlfriend in the wings? I want to know how…
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I should start off by saying I’m probably the last person you’d want to give you or anyone relationship advice! I had almost no romantic experience when I got married in college, I was divorced after 24 years of marriage, and haven’t lived with anyone since…
Susan Ostrov 