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The Top 5 Biggest Dating Mistakes We All Make

The Top 5 Biggest Dating Mistakes We All Make

Save yourself from pain and heartbreak by learning to avoid these all too common mistakes.

Looking back on my single days, there are so many things I would have done differently if I knew then what I know now. So many of these things we learn only from experience; from learning about life and love the hard way. But the reality is, when we’re in it, when we’re dating, when we think we’ve found someone who might be the one, when we’re feeling that incredible chemistry, when we’re so lonely we don’t know if we can be alone another minute, when he finally notices us and asks us out, when we feel like we can’t breathe if we don’t

Overcoming Infidelity: 6 Tips To Make It Work [EXPERT]
According to People Magazine, Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart "recently reunited."

Overcoming Infidelity: 6 Tips To Make It Work

Allegedly, K-Stew and R-Pats are getting back together. If they can do it, so can you. Here's how!

This week's hot Hollywood news is that Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart may be getting back together following her "indiscretion" with director Rupert Sanders ... and why not? An affair doesn't have to be the end of a relationship. In fact, it can be a new beginning, bringing a couple closer than ever.

Dear Dr. Romance: Staying in My Loving Heart

Dear Dr. Romance: Staying in My Loving Heart

Dr. Romance on Getting What You Want

Dear Dr. Romance:   Quite honestly, all the info in "Lighten Up - Cures for Marital Boredom" is great, but if your list of reccomendations were a test, we have failed everyone or most of them. I am walking lightly around here, just knowing, somehow, somewhere in time, we will find our way back into each others space, or away from all this, when the survival mode is no more, for now, I just do the best I can to stay in my loving heart. Have a delicious day.

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"Hey buddy, what's the Giants score?"

10 Reasons Men Get Married Even If They're Not In Love

A new study found that 25 percent of men will commit even if there's no love or attraction.

Just when you think the world is full of love and sunshine and rainbows, yet another study comes along and smacks you in the face to prove otherwise. Turns out that a lot of men don't enter into commitments like marriage out of a genuine bond toward a woman — they seem to do it just because. Let's explore, shall we?

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How do you know if he's true to you?

8 Characteristics Of A Loyal Man

How to predict whether he'll stay true to you.

Ever wish there were a foolproof formula for finding a faithful man? While there's no way to 100 percent guarantee a guy's loyalty, certain characteristics can predict whether he's predisposed to staying true.

6 Ways To Know You've Met Your Prince Charming [EXPERT]
Is there really such a thing as "prince charming"?

6 Ways To Know You've Met Your Prince Charming

...so you can start living your happily ever after.

Our culture tends to have a fairytale vision of what marriage should really be. Couples often enter into a marriage having had more discussion about the type of cake they want for their wedding rather than a conversation about their commitment and values in their relationship and marriage. So how do you know if you've found the one?

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Cohabiting has put me in a cardboard box of fear.

Why Moving In With My Girlfriend Scares The Pants Off Of Me

It's not change that's scary, it's the fear of change that makes cohabiting so hard.

My girlfriend and I are moving in together, and I think I might throw up. Not because I don't want to live with her, or because I was bullied, tricked or pressured into signing a lease (my deepest sympathies to the guy on Maury who was threatened at gunpoint by his future mother-in-law). But let's just say that sometimes I can be a bit, um, "skittish" when facing transitions.

How to Avoid Men Who Are Emotionally Unavailable (and Find Mr. Ri

How to Avoid Men Who Are Emotionally Unavailable (and Find Mr. Ri

Learn the 4 key strategies to avoiding men who are emotionally unavailable.

If you feel like your “picker” is broken (and you aren’t alone), we first want to direct you to Dating with Dignity’s four signs of emotionally unavailable men so you can begin to spot them more easily. Make sure to read this article if you haven’t; and then, once you’re familiar with the signs, it’s time to take responsibility for your relationship results and begin to take steps to avoid these men at all costs.

Why Your Parents' Divorce Doesn't Predict Your Future [EXPERT]
Marriage is a lifelong commitment; knowing that is half the struggle.

Why Your Parents' Divorce Doesn't Predict Your Future

Don't let your parents' divorce dictate your own destiny.

While experts say that the risk of divorce is 50 percent higher when one spouse comes from a divorced home, and 200 percent higher risk when both of them do, adults don't have to let their parents' divorce dictate their futures. While the numbers may appear against them, research shows that adult children of divorce can learn skills that help them to be great marriage partners. In fact, some even argue that children of divorce have happier marriages, based on the findings from a 2011 PEW Research Center report.

How To Make The First Move [EXPERT]
Why wait for him to do it?

How To Make The First Move

Whether you want to initiate a kiss or take your relationship to the next level, here's how.

Yes, it's the 21st century and yes, plenty of women are in this frustrating situation. While a lot has changed in terms of gender dynamics in heterosexual love relationships, a lot has stayed the same. Many heterosexual women still leave it to the man to make the first move, whether it's asking her out on their first date, having sex for the first time or moving their relationship to the next level of commitment.