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Dana Zemack has been making stick figure comics since she was 12. This week, she made one just for us. More »
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Bravo has given the greenlight to a new show, Love Broker, in which two best friends — one a real estate agent, and one a matchmaker — set up male clients in New York City. It's not exactly "sign here and get an apartment and a girlfriend," but every now and then, it does happen: "Sometimes, after selling an apartment, we sign [the buyer] up to find their [life] partners," Love Broker's Jennifer Zucher says. The truth is, I suspect a lot of people wouldn't mind outsourcing this kind of stuff: Way way back in the day, we had limited choices in terms of living spaces — this cave or that one — and either you just hooked up with whomever wasn't your brother, or the elders told you where to live and who to hang with. Now we're so busy and the world is so big it's hard to figure all this shit out. Plus, real estate can be a major factor in love lives: Some people won't date other people based on their neighborhood/borough/commute time. And if Pretty In Pink taught us anything, it's that your feelings about someone can change when you see what kind of house they live in. More »
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A new study has some potentially heartwarming news: for couples, a good conversation can help relieve the stress of an argument. But not just any conversation works: at least one of the partners has to get really immersed in the talk. More »
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Once upon a time, cupcakes were just a run of the mill dessert. Now there are boutique cupcake bakeries all over the place and our consumption shows no signs of slowing. It's no fad; the Washington Post has declared that our relationship with cupcakes is "an enduring love affair." Of course, the things you love say a lot about you. And, apparently, our love of cupcakes reveals some pretty disturbing things about us. More »
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I've long suspected you can tell a lot about someone's romantic personality based on their political inclinations, and now, newly-released section of Match.com's annual online dating survey has proven that I'm not totally wrong. Did you know, for example, that conservative Republican men consider conservative dress a turn on? And that people of all party affiliations are much more willing to forgive marital infidelity in their own partners than they are in a US President? More »
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Are you tired of the cuteness of Valentine's Day? Do you want to get your special someone something totally disgusting? The Bronx Zoo has the perfect gift for you — for $10, you can name one of their Madagascar hissing cockroaches after your SO (or friend, or mom, or whatever). No, you do not also get to take the roach home to surprise your loved one. But yes, you can get a chocolate roach instead. I think this gift works best if you are dating someone named Franz. More »
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A new infographic from Pew, the think tank that sounds like a baroness's delicate sneeze, shows that fewer Americans believe in marriage and are trying to fill the emptiness in their hearts with expensive Valentine's Day gifts and fancy, last-minute dinners. While about 39% of all Americans (and 44% of all those cynical, emotionally numb 18-29 year-olds) say that marriage is obsolete, that won't stop them from spending $17.6 billion this year trying to convince themselves that, in a world where Seal and Heidi Klum are in the throes of a bitter divorce, love isn't just a sick joke that Gary Marshall came up with to make people see his shitty movies. This year's Valentine's Day dinners will run Americans about $3.4 billion, a shade less than their jewelry purchases ($3.5 billion), and way more than they'll spend on flowers ($1.7 billion). Women will spend $75 on their gifts, while men, in fits of panicked impulse-purchasing, will spend about $160 on crappy heart-shaped necklaces tailor made for the new prototypical American couple — two increasingly suspicious people who realize more each advertising cycle how little they have in common. Your best bet, if you're trying to save money this season, is to stay uncoupled — pet owners only have to spend about $5 to appease their quadruped companions on Valentine's Day (any more than that and it's creepy). More »
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Today in awesome/awful things scientists make undergraduates do: psychologists have discovered that if you make the poor kids ponder their love for their girlfriends and boyfriends, they turn into jealous dicks who are eager to insult their supposed rivals and also blast them with loud noises. Effective! More »
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An attorney from New Jersey has sued two of his ex-girlfriends after both of them posted unflattering things about him on a website called LiarsCheatersRUs. The man says the vitriolic postings are ruining his career, the women won't back down, and the site can't even be bothered to fully spell out the word "are" in its url. Everyone involved in this should be at least a little bit embarrassed for themselves. More »
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If you're searching for a way to express your frustration with a holiday that requires you to a) be in a relationship and b) purchase heart-shaped things to prove your commitment to said relationship, you now have a place to go. Meet Occupy Valentine's Day. More »
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Barney Frank, the most prominent gay politician in the US, has confirmed that he'll be marrying his longtime partner after he retires from public service at the end of his current term. Since marriage has a one-in, one-out policy, this of course means that a straight couple in Massachusetts must now divorce. More »
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Online dating is practically quaint at this point, so comfortable have we become with trusting our love lives to the interwebs. With that in mind, developers have come up with a whole new crop of apps and sites to make love, sex, and dating better — or at least more complicated. Let's take a look at a few of the new arrivals. More »
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An Australian company is trying to turn missed connections into the basis for a dating site. We're extremely skeptical. More »
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A couple who met when they were randomly matched for a game of Words with Friends has taken their spelling-based relationship up a jillion notches by getting married. This means that a game so good it practically landed Alec Baldwin on the No Fly List is now responsible for just as many intact marriages as Kris Kardashian. More »
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As we become slowly mentally melded with our computers, it stands to reason that our dating lives would as well. And just in time for Valentine's Day candy to populate the shelves of your local drug store, here's a great big graphic explaining how it's becoming more and more inescapable, and profitable. More »
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Traditionally, after a Navy ship docks, one serviceman or woman aboard is chosen to be first to greet their loved one with a kiss. Thanks to the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell, today, for the first time ever, that lucky sailor was gay, and that kiss was between two women. More »
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Have you ever wanted to see the cacophonous and often contradictory body of contemporary dating advice distilled into a single, ridiculous document? If so, a group of Harvard students has now made your dreams come true. More »
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Finally, after all these years and all these self help books written by therapists with bangs photographed in soft focus, scientists have definitively discovered the secret to marriage. Are you ready for it? Here it is: Be nice to each other. More »
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If you think of IKEA only as a place to get lost and then end up spending way more money than you meant to, you should start thinking outside of the flat-pack cardboard box. That's what senior citizens in Shanghai are doing, and, according to the Wall Street Journal, they've managed to turn their local IKEA into a hot spot for meeting potential love interests. More »
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American Antiquarian's latest exhibit "Beauty, Virtue, & Vice: Images of Women in Nineteenth-Century American Prints" features this map called "The Open Country of a Woman's Heart" by D. W. Kellogg. Though the art is supposedly "By A Lady," I'd suspect it was actually created by a lovelorn and cynical man.

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Arguably one of the worst parts of being in a committed, long-distance relationship is that sad, lonely time each night before bed. There are ways to get around this, of course: you can call each other on the phone until one of you falls asleep, you can play that specially-curated mix tape filled with loves songs until you hit la-la-land or you can, you know, Skype with each other all night long until it's morning again (not recommended). But now, technology has come up with a new way of doing things: pillows that glow with the beat of your lover's heart. More »
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When you're single, hanging out with coupled friends can be awkward. You don't want to break up with your friends when they enter relationships, but you don't want to be the third wheel, either. And what about "couple-y" social functions where everyone seems to have a partner? Never fear, we have tips for you — and for couples, too. More »
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Non-Italian non-murderer Amanda Knox is slowly but surely readjusting to free life stateside after spending nearly 4 years in Italian prison. She dressed up as a mustachioed cat burglar for Halloween. She's speaking English again. And now it looks like she's got herself an American-style boyfriend, complete with a beard worthy of a sea shanty. More »
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Brian Williams co-hosted The Today Show this morning, where he was served coffee in an oversized mug (hilarious), bantered about Twitter ineptitude (adorable), and kicked it with Gabby Sidibe (sigh/swoon). Like everything the news anchor does, his temporary gig was endearing as hell, and hotdamn did he look handsome. This just in: you have a crush on Brian Williams. You want to have, like, 10,000 of his babies. More »
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The little words we use in conversation — pronouns, articles, and the like — may seem inconsequential. But now a team of scientists say that analyzing these can determine a couple's compatibility. More »
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A new survey finds that mutual respect is what women want most in a relationship. That's not a shock — but the source, HowToGetTheManOfYourDreams.com, is a bit more surprising. More »
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Amber Madison traveled the country asking straight single men to fill out a questionnaire about sex, love, dating, and relationships. She learned that men are much less dickish than pop culture would have you believe — but many of them aren't above lying for sex. More »
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Modern hetero relationships appear to be in a period of flux. This is potentially interesting — so why does the conversation about it feel so circular? More »
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It's difficult to feel cherished when we know that our partners are still carrying emotional baggage from previous romantic entanglements, but it's especially difficult when that emotional baggage manifests itself in the form of actual pieces of crap that used to belong to his ex-girlfriend. And what if he refuses to throw them away? Does that mean he's still in love with her? More »
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Anyone with a phone will laugh and tell you they're addicted to it, but this whole addiction thing is beginning to look like it's a lot more serious than we all thought. Earlier this week, in the New York Times, author Martin Lindstrom laid out his case that we might actually feel something like love for our mobile devices. He explains what his research has shown: More »
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It's been 13 years since Sex and the City premiered, and yet we are still talking about Mr. Big. Why? Because, according to anthropologist and relationship scientist Helen Fisher, we are addicted to him. Okay, we're not addicted to the actual Mr. Big, as in Chris Noth (who probably really wishes we'd all stop calling him that); we're addicted to our own personal Mr. Bigs—the men who sweep us off our Manolo-clad lady feet only to drop us on our Spanx-encased asses a few months later. But of course we know it is MEANT TO BE, so we crawl back to them and repeat this devastating cycle over and over again for the entire six season run of our hit television series, or, you know, until we get tired of being jerked around and force ourselves to move on. More »
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Thanks for keeping me company on a gray Labor Day, everybody! It's time for me to take off, but keep on talking amongst yourselves — for inspiration, here's a little video about the nature of love. Many thanks to Josh Siegel and his awesome animals, and a happy Labor Day to all! More »
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Making your beloved a heart-shaped hardboiled egg is significantly less romantic than, say, giving her red roses. It also might be a rather unsubtle way of saying it's time to reproduce. Still, these eggs are pretty cute. You could also just stop at step four, and give your love a hardboiled butt. More »
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Did you know that a stressed-out partner can shorten your life? Better pack your Nervous Ned/Nelly off to a psychiatrist ... if, that is, you're a bird. More »
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A cervical cancer survivor has started a dating site for people who can't — or would rather not — have sex. Her new venture challenges the notion that all relationships have to be sexual. More »
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The lack of women in science, technology, engineering, and math is often lamented, but it's still unclear why a gender gap exists in those fields. Now researchers say the problem might be that when a woman's thoughts turn to romance, they also turn away from the sciences. More »
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Contrary to popular belief, it appears marriage is not always a miserable slog through quagmires of irritation and ennui culminating only in messy divorce or unfulfilled death. In fact, a study shows that some married people totally still like each other. More »
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Love! Stop Motion! Neon colors! Post-it notes! More »
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