Sigh. Is romance officially dead? Demi Barnes, 15-year-old art student in the U.K., shared a photo of her final project with a cousin via Facebook and it's become one of those "viral" hits. It's gorgeous, has gotten more than 40,000 "likes," and is a wedding dress made out of divorce papers. 

Guess this kid hasn't swallowed the "happily ever after" princess myth! Guess how many pieces of paper she used to create the dress?

Apparently there's a certain antibiotic called Minocycline that can keep men from finding attractive women seductive and in turn, stop guys from being unfaithful to their girlfriends and wives. Um, yay?

The study, done in Japan, found that when shown photos of pretty women, men given the antibiotic rated them as less attractive than men who weren't on the drug did. The men taking the antibiotic were also less likely to rate the babes as "trustworthy." Ergo, say scientists, this means men on that medication in real life would be less likely to be seduced by beautiful women. Bizarre -- but this isn't the first time scientists have declared they know of an anti-cheating drug...

It's important to set goals in life. Go to school, land your dream job, find The One, or have a kid or two. Though why stop there? One major to-do we often neglect to add -- the Kissing Bucket List. Never heard of it? Well, let us initiate you. There are certain uber-romantic locales where every couple should attempt to get it on. Take a look at the 25 most amazing places to make out with your man and each year aim to check one off your list.

What places would you add to this list?

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One great thing about getting older is that I know what I want and don't want in a relationship. After you've had a few serious relationships, and a few non-serious ones, and they haven't worked out, you do tend to end up with an intractable set of dealbreakers. After all, you've been there, done that, and don't want to be there or do that ever again. The problem is that the older you get, the longer the dealbreaker list becomes. Until you've run out of every person on the planet.

My actual list of dealbreakers -- containing issues both large and small -- is so exhaustive these days that the chances of my meeting a man who doesn't have a least one or two of these dealbreakers is virtually nil. But hope springs eternal.

Here are 30 absolute dealbreakers:

Your wedding day. It's probably one of the most special, incredible, magical days in a person's life. Well, let me rephrase that last part to "... in a woman's life."

Yes, there are always exceptions, but women for the most part, seem way more into the wedding thing and even the idea of getting married, than men do. That's not a slight, just an observation.

When a woman tells her girlfriends she's getting married, it's usually followed by high-pitched squeals, lots of jumping up and down, and 20 or 30 minutes of hugging.

When a guy tells his buds he's getting married, more often than not, the first thing they ask him is, "Is she pregnant?" That's quickly followed up with a "Then why are you getting married?"

A recent conversation in a CafeMom discussion group got me thinking: Would I feel comfortable with my husband having a straight, female friend? One who wasn't attached to a guy friend? Hmm. I feel that it's very, VERY rare that two straight people of the opposite gender are truly, 100 percent "just friends." There's more often than not some sort of complicated feelings harbored by at least one of them, during at least some part of the friendship. I have not just personal experience, but science on my side in the matter of whether platonic relationships truly exist. 

Yet, yet, and yet again -- in anticipation of all the comments I can imagine this post getting about what great guy friends you have and how you LOVE your husband's best friend who happens to look like Cameron Diaz ...

We've all been guilty of this. You meet a guy and he's perfect in almost every way except for one big thing. We don't give up on him though. At first we try to ignore it, but who are we kidding. Then we do what we are told never to do in a relationship -- we try to change him. Even though it has never worked in the past, we convince ourselves that this guy will bend to your will and be the way you want him to be. I will admit, he may give in on some things (I mean putting the toilet seat down is just good manners!), but you don't have a chance on some issues. Take a look at the 6 things you can never change about a man.

My mother-in-law loves to say "how modern I am" and she doesn't exactly mean it as a compliment. She was a very traditional wife. Dinner on the table every night. Spotless house. She even ironed her husband's boxers on especially chilly winter days so they were warm and toasty when he put them on. Even though she did eventually get a job once her son went to grade school, her priority was always cooking and cleaning over career. For me, it's the opposite. I love my husband dearly, but I'm not the traditional homemaker type. I know I am not alone in this. Many women are just not fulfilled by domesticity. But fact of the matter is, many young women are -- even those we don't typically expect to be. Case in point, volleyball champ and model Gabrielle Reece, whose philosophy on having a successful marriage sounds a bit stone age to me.