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Sleeping in separate rooms at parents house

Q: I’m a 30-year-old man in love with a woman whose parents have invited us for a weekend at their home. She claims we’ll be …

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The Goddess on Good Grammar

The goddess is grumpy about grammar. Yes, grammar. What does this have to do with love? Follow me here for a minute. In a riveting …

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Say it. "I'm really, really sorry!"

What has happened down there on your planet–doesn’t anybody know how to apologize for wrongs they’ve done? Here’s Bernard Madoff, who’s ruined peoples lives; and …

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The Stigma of Being Single. Don't buy it!

Q: I’ve never been married (I’m 32) and it embarrasses me (and my parents, of course). Why is being single still a  stigma? –Worried A: …

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Just One New Year's Resolution–and Only One

It’s New Year’s Day and I’ve been resisting the RESOLUTIONS blog because I so hate the idea of suggesting, along with the rest of the …

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Of Nice and Men: Part 2

So let’s get back to nice men. Not because it’s a charitable act to like nice men rather than their “cooler” contemporaries–on the contrary; it’s …

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Of Nice and Men

I’m on a Nice Man kick. If you live up here in the Pantheon, you meet, like, one or two really nice gods–the rest are …

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How to Love a Man

In the New York Times Health section this last week psychiatrist Richard A Friedman writes that his male patients have appeared far more emotionally devastated …

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Pressured to get married. What's the deal?

Q: I’m single and feeling a lot of weird vibes about it. I thought the pressure to get married was a thing of the past, …

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Going topless on social sites?

Q: Every guy I meet on Facebook wants me to send topless pictures, or more. I’m intimidated by this but I’m 21 and want to …

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