Meeting the parents is a well-known nerve-wracking event. Whether it’s your parents or theirs, the prospect of embarrassment, awkwardness, or general dislike is enough to heighten your blood pressure and cause you to sweat like a murderer on trial. However, what is less analyzed but almost as bad is meeting your mate’s friends for the first time.
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Dating: Relationships
Oh relationships…the ultimate source of both pleasure and pain. Relationships have and will always be one of the most important aspects of our lives. Romantic relationships shape, influence, and enrich our lives with every experience taken and lesson learned. The knowledge we gain from our relationships with others is never ending and forever changing. Explore this section to learn what makes them tick, why they sometimes go wrong, how to cope when they do, and why they are so precious.
Meeting Their Friends
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Loading ...Why Staying Single is Healthy
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Embedded somewhere in your long-term memory are a bevy of quotes from your parents pertaining to your health… “An apple a day keeps the doctor away,” “always eat your vegetables,” and “floss, or I swear to God the Tooth Monster will tear your molars out” are just examples of the loving advice I remember from childhood. However, after years of schooling, I think I’ve realized a new one: “Don’t get locked into a long term relationship!” and here is why.
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Great (But Inexpensive) Valentine’s Day Dates
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Depending on the person you’re dating, a crummy Valentine’s Day date can really screw up a relationship. Lots of women (and perhaps men too) want their partner to really deliver on this day for lovers. But if you take a look around, you’ll notice we’re knee deep in a recession. Shelling out hundreds of dollars on a fancy, 5-star dinner isn’t really in most peoples’ budgets.
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Getting Back Together
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Perhaps you ran into her at the grocery store, or maybe you saw him at a mutual friend’s get together. You chat, have a couple drinks, and head home. But maybe you’re thinking, “he sure is looking good these days,” or “she seems to have really matured.” And maybe for the next few days you [...]
Putting an End to Neediness
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Every couple goes through what some call “the honeymoon stage”: a period when a new relationship is blossoming and the couple think about and talk to each other at every available minute. This is fleeting, and when it ends, there is frequently one person who feels the other isn’t paying enough attention to them. This person, inevitably, becomes needy. And although they may feel completely justified in their neediness, the fact of the matter is this trait is really, really annoying.
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Open Relationships
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...There have been countless studies done in the past few years that show overwhelming evidence that man is not a monogamous creature by nature. Although we have trained ourselves to believe that there is a “One” who will fulfill us for the rest of our lives, it isn’t exactly realistic to believe this.
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Should You Get Married?
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...There was a day and age where marriage was 100% expected. After a year or two of dating, couples would get engaged, then get married, and then have children. It was the way life worked, and to go against it was to be subversive, and often times shunned by family and friends. In 2010, however, couples can date for years and never get married or even choose never to have children. Sometimes, though, there comes a point in a relationship where the topic of marriage comes up. This is the time when you should ask yourself if you should get married… or not.
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Fighting in a Relationship
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Just because you’ve been arguing for a few days over small, petty disagreements, doesn’t mean it’s time to throw in the towel and call it quits. If anything it means you’ve been around each other a little too much and need to cool off, but at least you aren’t passively living day to day without caring about each other, right?
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Long Distance Relationships
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You’ve been working hard, pulling long shifts and really kissing your bosses you-know-what. And finally, you are offered a promotion; a high-paying, awesome new job. But there is only one catch. It’s two states away, and you just got really close with a new boyfriend. Whatever is a girl to do?
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Moving In Together
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...It’s been two weeks since you’ve seen the inside of your apartment, and all of a sudden, it’s the first of the month and you find yourself paying rent on a bedroom you rarely even see! At some point when you’re in a serious relationship, the question will arise: should we move in together? It [...]