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Is It Okay to Disagree?

Sat, 25 May 2013 21:30:00 GMT

My boyfriend and I like a lot of the same things, but we also like a lot of different things—we even dislike some things that the other likes. How much do we have to have in common for us to work?

We're similar in many ways. We are both picky eaters and therefore have the same restaurants. We like the same movies and laugh at all the same parts. We could talk for hours about the kinds of dogs we're dying to adopt when we have a place of our own. We even share the same major in college. Despite having so much in common, there are things he enjoys that I just can't stand and vice versa. More Here...

What Guys Want: Is It Just One Thing?

Sat, 25 May 2013 20:00:00 GMT

I was six when my mother passed away in a car accident. Although I desperately cling to the few memories I do have of her, I do not have as thorough a sense of who she was as my older siblings do. My upbringing and childhood memories primarily consist of my father and brothers' influences. (I was never close to my sister who is nine years older.) So, as I started to go to school with other girls and they started to like boys, I felt a fundamental difference between my friends and me.

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Tie Me to the Bedpost...err, Just Kidding? Unless You Want Me To...

Sat, 25 May 2013 18:30:00 GMT

I love sex. Scratch that. I love good sex. I love sex with someone who is in sync with how and the way I love sex. More Here...

Why Women Stay in Bad Relationships

Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:00 GMT

I'm working on my sixth year in a relationship that has caused me far more sadness, depression, anger, and fear than any type of remote happiness. Two wonderful boys are the product of the abuse ridden relationship, but I couldn't name anything else positive about it. Even "good" times seem empty. We have absolutely nothing in common, no real conversation exists, there is no bond, no friendship; nothing.

Before I moved closer to my family, I had absolutely no freedom. I couldn't go out with friends and I seldom saw my family. As if that wasn't enough, I had to share everything I had with him since he didn't work, had no car or even his own cell phone. I did everything (i.e. school, working and raising the kids) while taking not only his physical abuse but mental and verbal abuse from his family particularly his mother who never holds him responsible for anything probably because she can't face the demons that led her to raising such a monster.

Fast forward to now where I have a little more control over my life but am still unhappy. I'm not even sure that there is love in the relationship, we simply co-exist. He's unwilling to move back in with his mother, so he basically refuses to let the relationship go. I hate it too, yet, I've been mostly here for the full five years.

People don't understand why women stay with jerks. Hell, most of the time we don't know why we stay either. If I had to narrow down some reasons, here are a few. More Here...

My Boyfriend & His Xbox

Fri, 24 May 2013 22:30:00 GMT

If there's one thing I've learned about my boyfriend during the last four years of our relationship, it's that video games are a part of his life, and they are here to stay. To be honest, it took me at least a year to come to terms with this fact. I would visit him in Maine over the summer and watch him and his brother play countless matches of Call of Duty while I yawned with boredom.

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Abort the Relationship Over Abortion Beliefs?

Fri, 24 May 2013 21:00:00 GMT

This is one of my favorite Seinfeld episodes. Elaine meets who she believes to be the man of her dreams, Jerry's moving man. Jerry, in this episode, is aware of Elaine's strong pro-choice beliefs and knows that it's of the utmost importance to her that she date someone who has the same beliefs as her. In this clip, Jerry asks Elaine what her potential love's stance on abortion is. Hilarity ensues as Elaine is devastatingly disappointed that he is incredibly pro-life. Nooooooooo!More Here...

Is Putting a Condom on an Uncircumcised Guy Different?

Fri, 24 May 2013 19:30:00 GMT

It was my friend's second time hooking up with this guy. She guessed she just didn't notice the first time. She certainly knew they used a condom, but it wasn't until their second time between the sheets that she noticed that the sheets weren't the only thing covering his little friend down there.

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How Much Quality Time is Enough?

Fri, 24 May 2013 18:00:00 GMT

I have been with my boyfriend for three years now. We go to different schools, so when we're home we spend most of our time together. But over the summer when time is no longer at a minimum and we have more of it to spend with each other, how often do we really need to be consciously making time to hang out?

Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love spending time with Andrew. However, when the two of us are also working full time and doing our own thing, it's hard to have quality time every single night. More Here...

To Speak or Not to Speak

Fri, 24 May 2013 00:30:00 GMT

I'll make this short and sweet. In high school, I had a major crush on one of my friends, but we weren't close enough for me to even think he liked me. Eight months after graduation, we ended up dating. The relationship was really something. He became my other half, where we used to joke that I was the girl version of him, as he was the guy version of me. We became really good friends during our relationship, but he started to lie and cheat on me; he hurt me over and over.

Finally I had enough and I decided I couldn't handle the abuse... I was better than that. After being on and off for two years, I moved 1,200 miles away for work at the age of 20, leaving everything behind me. I was happier, and at the same time, the distance made me realize how blind I was. I realized I made the best decision for myself, and I was a lot happier. I haven't seen him in person since January 2011, though we skyped while I was gone. He cut off all contact with me that summer. I was coming home just a month later, but he didn't realize that. I contacted him two months after being home in October and he was being nice, but it didn't go anywhere. More Here...

Getting Your Sexy Back

Thu, 23 May 2013 23:15:00 GMT

Anyone who has been in a relationship that lasted more than a year knows about the "honeymoon phase." The Skool of Life describes the Honeymoon Phase as such, "Boy meets girl. He’s attracted to her, she’s attracted to him. Sparks fly, wild passionate sex goes on for weeks on end and everybody is on cloud 9...You generally are walking down the street with an ear to ear goofy grin that makes it obvious to the world around you that you are clearly infatuated or having some seriously good sex."

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