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'Blue Valentine' Got You Down? 9 Functional Movie Couples
The film "Blue Valentine" is both a critical darling and a scourge of censorship, but everyone seems to agree on one point: Its gritty depiction of a crumbling marriage is both realistic and devastating. As the relationship between Dean...
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Following My Passion Found Me A Partner
For the first 29 years of my life, Valentine's Day was the most imposing of holidays. Every year, I was either single or with a girlfriend that I knew things probably weren't going to work out with. It didn't help that walking into ...
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Love At First Site: What Place Won Your Heart?
We were truly, madly, deeply in love. It was the early '90s and we had just spent a year merging our lives (his three sons and Ph.D.-in-progress and my uber-busy consulting practice). We took a honeymoon of sorts in the American Sout...
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How To Turn Romance Into Lifelong Love
The intoxication of romance may bring a sense of the certainty that your loved one will be with you for eternity. Divorce statistics show otherwise. Romance does not guarantee longevity of partnership.
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Are We Really That Different In Love?
After years of getting to know a few thousand animals on a first name basis at the Brookfield Zoo, I have come to the conclusion that the so-called divide between animals and humans is really a laugh. The only concrete difference that I ...
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Why We Like Romantic Uncertainty
You've just been on a first date with a woman you find attractive and intelligent, and things went well -- at least from your point of view. The conversation was comfortable, and you have the same taste in books and politics. You're stil...
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Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior
A lot of people wonder how Chinese parents raise such stereotypically successful kids. They wonder what these parents do to produce so many math whizzes and music prodigies, what it's like inside the family, and whether they could do it ...
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15 Moments That Define Any Relationship
Your first kiss isn't the only milestone you can enjoy. Take and step back to examine just where you are on the road of your relationship and take pleasure in all your firsts-- from fighting to murmuring those three little words. Firs...
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Roger Fransecky: Happiness Is A Choice
Are you happy? Would you know if you were? Has your definition of happiness changed as you've grown older and more successful? Is it about accumulation, more toys, more exotic travel, new experiences, more of what you thought you wante...
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Sally Kohn: Real Change Happens Offline
Today's American young people feel a deep connection to people in Tibet and Darfur, want to hold corporations accountable to environmental standards and worker justice, and value the role of government in meeting our shared needs. Yet th...
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Man Buys Dinner For His Mugger
When Julio Diaz stepped off the New York City subway platform after work one night, he was simply planning to walk over to his favorite local diner for a meal. But when a teenage boy approached him with a knife blade gleaming in his fist...
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Finally, Women Have Somewhere To Go On The Web
For those harried women who find iVillage too taxing, Internet giant Yahoo! has launched a portal called "Shine." Yahoo's first site aimed at women is like a ladies-only Readers' Digest, but looks like an even-simpler Real Simple. It's f...
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How Apostrophes Make Life More Difficult
NEW YORK — It can stop you from voting, destroy your dental appointments, make it difficult to rent a car or book a flight, even interfere with your college exams. More than 50 years into the Information Age, computers are still ge...
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Peggy Drexler: Dogs Don't Lie
In a world where truth can be situational and trust used to calculated advantage, I'm reminded every day why I like my dogs. Their names are Stuart and Polly. They are Yellow Labs. And they're real. Their needs are simple and their affe...
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Jesse Kornbluth: Mating in Captivity: Esther Perel Reconciles 'Sex' and 'Marriage'
Esther Perel looks like the New York couples therapist from Central Casting. Married for a zillion years, mother of two, trim as an arrow --- if you have to talk to a stranger about your sex life, she'll do just fine. And she's got pop c...
