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Gadgets & Games Can Make or Break Your Relationship

Posted by Maressa Brown
on Feb 15, 2012 at 5:22 PM

woman on a laptopNo one ever said marriage was easy, but it seems like it's gotten even more difficult in the Internet age. Especially for people who like to play online role playing games (RPGs) ... You know, like World of Warcraft or even SIMS. Turns out spending a significant portion of your free time in a fictional online world isn't exactly doing your relationship any wonders ... drrr.

A study from Brigham Young University found that 75 percent of spouses married to people who play role-playing games online wish that their gaming guru sweeties spent less time playing and more time working on the relationship. BUT -- in couples where both spouses were gaming nerds into RPGs, 76 percent thought that gaming had a positive effect for their marriage. Well, yeah!

This isn't only true for partners who play online or regular video games. It extends to all manner of gadgets, web habits, and cellphones.

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Love & Sex GossipMonger

Khloe Kardashian Reveals the Truth Behind Kim's Love Life

Posted by Maressa Brown
on Feb 15, 2012 at 5:08 PM

kim kardashian and khloe kardashian shop in dallasPssst ... Did you hear that exes Kim Kardashian and Reggie Bush were spotted out and about -- together? Yeah, they were BRUNCHING, people. That is big. Could totally mean there's a reunion on its way (regardless of recent goss that Reggie doesn't want back in the Kardashian Machine). The former couple in question is keeping mum for now, but Kim's sis Khloe Kardashian isn't. She's promoting the latest season of Khloe and Lamar (which premieres this Sunday) and stopped by Ryan Seacrest's radio show today to dish.

Kim may have called her little sister "an evil troll" in the last season of Khloe and Kim Take New York, but that doesn't mean anything. You know the K sisters are close, and thus, I would totally take Khloe's word on whatever's going on with Kim. Not one to mince words, Khloe gave Ryan the real, hilarious scoop.

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Love & Sex Love & Learn

Is It Ever a Good Idea to Put Your Career on Hold for Love?

Posted by Lindsay Mannering
on Feb 15, 2012 at 4:07 PM

thinking girlThere comes a time in almost everyone's life when you have to make a choice between your career and your personal life. It's never easy -- there are pros and cons for each route, and sacrifices to be suffered and rewards to be reaped no matter which path is chosen. Adele recently told Vogue that she was planning on taking the next five years off to focus on her relationship, and while that may or may not actually be the case (phew!), it once again uncovers the age old puzzle that can never be perfectly solved: Is it ever a good idea to put your career on hold for love?

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Love & Sex Love & Learn

10 Things You Didn't Know About Kissing

Posted by Aunt Becky
on Feb 15, 2012 at 3:24 PM

Kissing may be one of the most wonderful ways of expressing love, affection, and happiness. Depending on who you're kissing, there are tons of different ways to do it -- you kiss your kids much differently than you kiss your spouse.

But there are a lot of things I bet you don't know about kissing (I know I was surprised!). Read on to learn some surprising things about smooching!

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Love & Sex Stats

New Poll Says Good Manners Are Still Sexier than Washboard Abs

Posted by Janelle Harris
on Feb 15, 2012 at 1:21 PM

Manners, dating
Yeah, yeah, yeah, but what are your manners like?
I could never date a guy with bad manners. Never, ever, never, ever, never. Ever. I’m a stickler for good home training from everyone — little kids, pregnant women, beat cops, biker dudes on Harleys. Manners make the world a prettier place to wake up to. But certainly, if I can’t control the minutiae of day-to-day living and expect the big burly guy on the subway not to trample me at the door or chastise the little girl walking to school for tossing her empty Doritos bag on the street, I can demand gentility from a love interest.

I’m not alone in that expectation — in a recent poll of 1,500 single Canadian women between the ages of 18-40, more than half still want men to hold the door open and pay for the first date. Even with all the accouterments of modern womanhood, good ol’ fashioned gentlemanliness is the sexiest quality a man can have. That and swagger will suck me in every. single. time.

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Love & Sex Say What!?

It's Confirmed: Valentine's Day Robs Men Blind

Posted by Maressa Brown
on Feb 14, 2012 at 5:37 PM
Valentine's Day Guide

valentine's day wishesHey you attached ladies. Right now, as you wrap up for the day at work and/or put the kids down for a nap and/or return from picking them up from school, your DH/SO/BF is likely out there at the mall/candy store/drugstore/florist picking up approximately $168.74 worth of clothing, jewelry, and other gifts for you for Valentine's Day. That's what the National Retail Federation has found at least. Overall, everyone's expected to shell out $17.6 billion for the Hallmark holiday. Seeing a number like that's probably enough to make you want to stop in your tracks, pick up your cell, and text your man, "NNNNNNOOOOOOO!!! STOOOOP!" ... right? Or maybe not. Maybe you spend the same or more on him?

Doubtful. The NRF also found that $168.74 is nearly double the amount women will spend on their guys. Excuse moi? Is it just me or is that stat totally disheartening? Yeah, I'm all about ladies being treated like royalty by their men, but since when did this holiday become another "her day"? 

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Love & Sex Awww!

President Obama Has an Important Message for Guys on Valentine’s Day

Posted by Adriana Velez
on Feb 14, 2012 at 4:32 PM

obama valentinesListen up, guys. President Obama delivered a very important public service announcement that you all need to hear. Doesn't matter if you're a liberal, conservative, or libertarian, this message applies to everyone: Don't forget Valentine's Day, and GO BIG.

This was Obama's message today at an event in Washington. And he is so right. Right as in correct, not politically. This is totally not a political post. This is a message of LOVE!

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Love & Sex LOL

Grope Your Mate in Public in These Ridiculous ‘Touchable’ Shirts

Posted by Lindsay Mannering
on Feb 14, 2012 at 1:10 PM

touchableNot sure if you've heard, but it's Valentine's Day, and yay, aren't we all so excited about it. Woo. I suppose there are some people out there who love the holiday, who cherish the red and pink color scheme, and who will feed their lovah oysters and strawberries tonight on hearth's edge. And I'm sure they're the same kind of people who would wear these Touchable t-shirts.

They're called the coupling shirts, and they're like sweatshirts with slits in places where couples usually touch one another. So if you like grabbing the inside of your man's arm when you walk, there's a slit in his sweatshirt there where you can slide in your hand. Yaaaay.

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Love & Sex Hot List

5 Ways to TREAT YO SELF This Valentine's Day

Posted by Lindsay Mannering
on Feb 13, 2012 at 6:32 PM
Valentine's Day Guide

valentine's dayValentine's Day is encroaching and there's nothing we can do to stop it. Every year it pops up here in the middle of February, and every year we either clamour for dinner reservations with our lover boys or drink to our single heart's content alone on the couch. I mean, that's what everyone says you do, but really, why would I sit on the couch when lying in bed with my Merlot is so much more comfy and cozy. Please.

Anyway, if you happen to find yourself single this Valentine's Day, don't hide in bed. Don't sit on the couch. And for god's sake, don't tweet about how "lonely" you are. Instead, TREAT YO SELF. Make it the one day this year that you treat yo self to some cupcakes, to mimosas, or to some fine. leather. goods. Parks and Rec was definitely on to something. So! In that vein, here are 5 ideas to get you thinking about how you'll want to pamper yourself this Valentine's/Singles Awareness Day.

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Love & Sex Heartbreaking

This Is the Perfect Place for Lonely Hearts on Valentine’s Day

Posted by Adriana Velez
on Feb 13, 2012 at 6:05 PM
Valentine's Day Guide

mix tapesFor the broken-hearted, Valentine's Day is a horror show. It's a day when you just want to call in sick, pull the covers over your head, and rock back and forth humming to yourself until it all goes away. And it will -- in 24 hours! But still, who is looking out for these poor souls? Where is their refuge on this most painful day of the year?

Well good news, members of the broken-hearted club. You could spend the day at the Museum of Broken Relationships. It's a museum loaded with mementos of love gone wrong, wrong, wrong. Here's a museum where you could go and feel your feelings, with no one there to tell you to get over it already, he's not worth it!

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