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#RoofBreakup: What We Learned From the Lovers Whose Tiff Went Viral
A couple who went to the roof of their apartment building for some privacy to air their differences ended up in a world publicity instead after a guy up there decided to share the details of their...
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This Test Can Determine If Your Marriage Will Last
The measure isn’t the high tech detector of romantic emotions that you might expect. Instead, it looks a lot like that familiar thing we know as our gut feeling. Next time somebody who just went...
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Nigella Bites Back: Lawson’s 11 Most Scathing Courtroom Quotes
Over in London, Nigella Lawson, celebrity cook (she eschews the label of chef), is giving everyone an object lesson in how to handle that awkward situation of being called a drug addict by former...
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Study: Black Workers Are Happier Than Whites
Despite the fact that they have fewer close friends in the workplace, less autonomy, more repetitive jobs and feel less supported by colleagues, black workers report higher levels of satisfaction than...
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Judge Strikes Down Part of Utah Polygamy Ban
A U.S. District Court judge ruled Friday that a key part of the state’s longstanding polygamy laws are unconstitutional, marking a victory for polygamous families who have long sought to have their...
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How to Tell If Your Relationship Will Survive the Holidays
Listen. Is that the sound of jingle bells? Or another relationship shattering under the pressure of the holidays? In the potent end-of-year mix of expectation, joy and stress, many relationships will...
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Extreme Marriage Experiment Suggests It’s Better to Be Right Than Happy
A New Zealand man who was asked by scientists to agree with everything his wife said had to call off the experiment after 12 days because it was proving so harmful to his mental health. The study was...
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The 20 Best Worst Things That Have Been Said About Me on YouTube
Amanda Hess knows it’s not always fun to be female on the internet. She has firsthand experience of the vitriol that women who post online tend to attract. The piece she wrote about this for Pacific...
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Harvard Study Suggests Racial Bias Among Some Airbnb Renters
Black hosts who offer their places for temporary rent in New York City via Airbnb don’t get as much for their rentals as non-black hosts, even though the places maybe in equally good neighborhoods, and...
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Let’s Fire St. Valentine: 5 Saints for the Married
Of all the Saints to whom we could grant a special day to celebrate love, why did we choose Valentine, a dude who never even had a girlfriend, let alone a long term monogamous relationship? He was a...
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How Skype Is Sabotaging Your Long Distance Relationship
An hour into Her I was a mess. Though many have complained that they found it hard to empathize with the human-operating system relationship the movie depicts, I found the film all too real because it...
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Babe, Baby, Boo: Why Couples Can’t Cut Out the Baby Talk
When we’re around babies, we can’t help ourselves. We start making cooing noises, talking in sing-song, and adding diminutive eeee’s at the ends of words – aren’t you a cutie? Do you want your dollie?...
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Forget Couples Therapy, Just Watch a Romance Movie
Couples therapy is notoriously painful–and expensive. Sure, it can be cathartic and having professional intervention helps a lot of people stay together, but therapy is sort of like the root canal...
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Double Dates Can Enhance Romance
If your relationship needs a reboot, try going on a double date. Past studies show that self disclosure, or sharing information about yourself with your partner, can bring people closer together. But...
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Chore Wars: How the Division of Domestic Duties Really Affects a Couple’s Sex...
Are women less attracted to men who do more domestic chores? Or are men who share equally in the workload at home more appealing to a generation of stressed wives who are juggling family...
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Your Password or Your Privacy: Why Partners Share—And Why They Shouldn’t
Matthew Breuer has shared the passwords to his computer, email and social media accounts with every girlfriend he’s ever had. It’s a matter of convenience — she can check his email when he can’t access...
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Studies Show Male Behavior Is Totally Explainable
It seems that every week a new study makes headlines by presenting meticulously collected data on how men’s behavior deviates from the norm, is stuck in some neanderthal pattern out of keeping with...
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How Being Good Parents Can Make You a Lousy Couple
Twenty-two years into our marriage, my husband and I hit a rough patch. There were no knockdown, drag-out fights; it was more of a slow withering. When it started, or how long it had gone on before we...
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When Not to Arrest an Abuser in a Domestic Violence Case
Almost half the the states in America have mandatory arrest provisions in domestic violence cases, and it’s widely accepted as an important step in protecting the mostly female victims of spousal or...
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Man Who Avoided Child Support By Faking Bankruptcy Gets 17 Years
Things have gone rather horribly south for a Sacramento businessman who invited the FBI to investigate his ex-wife. Instead of arresting her, the Feds found that he’d been hiding money for years to...
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