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Couples I Could do Without

With Valentine’s Day right around the corner, I thought I would get in the spirit of things with a post about those happy, loving couples that I can’t stand. Let’s begin with my all-time least favorite, the couple everyone loves to hate . . . . Angelina “Homewrecker” Jolie and Brad Pitt. I hate them because I [...]

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Commercials: Unfriendly to the Unmarried?

My boyfriend brought home a Men’s Health magazine the other day. Now as much as I don’t need to know the latest neck exercise or 109 ways to do a pull up…I still find reading through men’s magazines to be an interesting perspective into the ‘other’ world.  In fact sometimes I want to know why [...]

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Top Ten Things You’ll Find in a Guy’s Room

Not so long ago we posted about “Man Caves” and how men with live-in girlfriends/wives feel entitled to a household area of manliness dedicated just for them and their testosterone. Today, I’d like to observe the top ten things in a man’s bedroom (single or non live-in girlfriend), primarily because I’ve noticed some overwhelming similarities. [...]

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Bad Romance

A friend of mine just shared an awful, but hilarious, story about a recent date she went on and because it is so funny, and awful, I thought I would share, so I’ve copied it below for all of you to enjoy. When reading this story please keep in mind a few things: My friend is [...]

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The Bachelor: This Season’s 25 Most Desperate Women In America

It is not as though I don’t believe in love at first site. In fact I am sure there are millions of happy couples out there who could prove me wrong, that all it takes is a glance and you “know”. But for 25 desperate women to fly in from all across America to meet one [...]

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Man Cave

Has anyone heard of the ridiculous concept of a ”man cave”? Until I met Boyfriend, I never had before. But he quickly filled me in and informed me, almost immediately after we started to get serious, that he plans to have one.   For those who aren’t aware, a man cave is a room where a “man can be [...]

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Why Tiger Woods’ Private Life is My Business

By now you’ve no doubt heard about about a little scandal involving Tiger Woods that keeps getting weirder with each passing day. First he was in a car accident, and somewhere along the way his wife beat him with a golf club (strange), and then we discovered she did this because he was cheating (understandable). [...]

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Kiss and Tell

At 1:00 p.m. this afternoon I sat alone in The Womb, the cozy corner cubicle I share with my coworker, Sushi Girl. Headphones on, I’d tuned out the office–the irregular hums and whirs of desktop computers, the low buzz of fluorescent lights, the small bits of conversation that travel out of context. I was listening [...]

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New Gloom: Why Dating a “Twilight” Vampire Might Be Bloody Awful

Everyone is in a frenzy over the upcoming premiere of “New Moon,” the second installment of the “Twilight” saga. This week, New York Magazine features an article about “Twilight”-obsessed moms. AT&T, Burger King, and Volvo have all tapped into the madness, offering all kinds of merchandise, from ring tones to water bottles to the chance [...]

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He Said / She Said: Diamond Rings

In a recent post on The Frisky, the topic of engagement rings was debated. One man argued that it doesn’t make sense to give a woman an expensive engagement ring. Instead, he says, the money should be used for something efficient like a down payment on a house. Besides, the diamond market is a monopoly. On the [...]

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