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Beware the Shady Emotional Rebound
After my last relationship flatlined, I reached into my emotional junk drawer and pulled out a name I hadn’t deleted. A placeholder. A…
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What Is Emotional Maturity, Anyway?
When Leonardo DiCaprio, who was born in 1974, made headlines this week for joking in an interview with Esquire that he “turned emotionally…
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Why Do People Cheat?
It’s easy to condemn Carrie Bradshaw for sneaking around with Big behind Aidan’s back on Season 3 of Sex and the City (or, for that…
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What Is “Mankeeping,” and How Do I Know If I’m Doing It?
You know that friend who always brings her boyfriend to the hang (go home, Brad!), and seems 100% occupied with meeting his various needs,…
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Why We’re All So in Love With Pam and Liam
If rumors—and talk-show banter—are to be believed, former baywatcher Pamela Anderson is getting better acquainted with her co-star Liam…
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Brad, Please Go Home
It was a Friday night in New York City, and for once, we, the girls, had pulled it off: a six-person table at The Odeon, 8 p.m. sharp,…
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What’s It Really Like When Your Ex Dates an Influencer? These Women Lived It
It all ended the same way it began: on her phone. For Michelle, 28, knowing her long-term relationship was over—one that had started with…
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Is There Anything to Be Done About “the Ick“? The Truth About Instant Disgust in Dating
Then again, sometimes the ick is not that deep. For example, I personally find fedoras hideous and embarrassing, and I really don’t want…
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Artificial Intelligence Is Changing the Way We Navigate Romantic Relationships
After a painful breakup, 28-year-old Mikaela Wild, a social media content strategist in Los Angeles, sat on her couch, phone in hand. Wary…
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I Want What They Have: Paige Bueckers and Azzi Fudd
Love is a many-splendored thing, especially when you’re gawking at it from the outside. In this column, we’ll be examining the celebrity…
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I Want What They Have: Tour de France Cyclist Jonas Vingegaard and His Wife, Trine Hansen
Love is a many-splendored thing, especially when you’re gawking at it from the outside. In this column, we’ll be examining the celebrity…
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Psst: It’s Actually Fine to Have a Little Work Crush
Lisa confesses to occasionally flirting with Marion. “It’s nothing overly sexual, but there’s an unspoken energy between us. And I feel…
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Let’s Face It: We All Have a Wendy Jones
We put these people on a pedestal—one that is usually far higher than wherever we’ve placed our ex to rest, alongside any lingering…
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With ‘Too Much,’ Lena Dunham Proves That She Remains Unrivaled When It Comes to Writing Dream Boyfriends
Of course, one could argue that Felix’s cuteness (and Adam Sackler’s, for that matter) is primarily a feat of casting, not writing, but I…
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Respectfully, Why Would Anyone Ever Go on ‘The Ultimatum: Queer Love’?
There was lesbian mess aplenty on the last season of Queer Ultimatum, and I became addicted to the point that I still follow several of…
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What Is Limerence? The Obsessive Longing, Explained
Though limerence—a.k.a. obsessive longing—has become a sort of buzzword recently, it’s actually a pretty well-worn concept; there are…
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Why I Finally Fell Out of Love With Attachment Theory
There was a time, in my mid-20s, when I became completely obsessed with why I was the way I was. I’d just been through a major break-up,…
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Do Opposites Attract?
Two summers ago, I had a weekend tryst in Miami with a former Albright Scholar who wrote op-eds on Middle Eastern policy for The Wall…
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I Want What They Have, Pride Edition: Anna Camp and Jade Whipkey
Love is a many-splendored thing, especially when you’re gawking at it from the outside. In this column, we’ll be examining the celebrity…
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Why Are We So Obsessed With the Idea of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce Getting Married?
I like Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce together as much as the next person (who’s not an avowed anti-Swiftie, that is): After years’ worth…
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Faking Phone Sex? Like Carrie, We’ve All Done It
Traditionally, long-distance relationships are defined by several factors. Excellent communication skills (ideally). Intermittent…
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What Getting Divorced in My 20s Taught Me About Love
When I was growing up in the 1990s, getting married wasn’t an “if” in the Midwest, but a “when”—and “divorce” was practically a curse…
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I Want What They Appear to Have: Monica Barbaro and Andrew Garfield
Love is a many-splendored thing, especially when you’re gawking at it from the outside. In this column, we’ll be examining the celebrity…
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I Want What They Have: Ellen Pompeo and Chris Ivery
Pompeo and Ivery may be Hollywood royalty now, but their courtship was the stuff of low-budget, indie-movie, meet-cute dreams: after a…