You felt like a lucky woman when your husband offered to stay home while you went out and earned the dough, until you walked in on him chatting online with other moms as your kids are watching cartoons. Don't get mad, make quiche, says author of Eat Your Feelings: Recipes for Self-Loathing, Heather Whaley. According to her, there's nothing like stuffing your face, crying, and then looking in the mirror and saying that it's not your fault—even if it is, technically, your fault. When you've come home to find your unemployed boyfriend playing video games instead of vacuuming, try … Read More

Even when you're crazy about someone, it can often be hard to know if he or she is "right" for you. How do you know you won't feel differently in a year? Ten years? A lifetime? Deciding if you can commit to someone is a deeply personal determination, and everyone has different criteria. As in any verdict, you have to start by assessing the evidence. With that in mind, YourTango has come up with 15 signs that you're dating a soul mate. You don't have to check off all of these points to be sure about someone—but if you can … Read More

Is he planning to pop the question? Here are a few signs to let you know that a proposal is in your near future.

Question: I've been dating my boyfriend for over a year now and things are going great but how can I tell if he plans to pop the question? -Tricia

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If your man is unwilling to fetch you a napkin while he's up at a dinner party, does that mean the relationship is doomed? If you feel too bashful to ask your partner for help is that an indication of a shaky union? Bad Relationships May Be Genetic

Anne Hill, a talk radio host, and blogger for Huffington Post thinks so. In fact, she'll go so far as to say the three most important words in a relationship are "while you're up." Yes. While you're up.

Imagine that you are hosting a big family gathering, and after hours … Read More

Tucks of skin trickled out from a pink, tropical bikini top. My half-naked body glared back at me from the unforgiving gleam of a fitting room mirror as I modeled a two-piece suit, gripped to the grooves of my body.

It was the day every woman dreads, the day we wish we hadn't eaten that cheesecake the night before, the day we regret skipping last week's workouts, the day we subject our naked bodies to bright lights and full-length mirrors. It was bathing suit shopping day. Staring perplexed at my reflection, I tugged at the corners of bikini number twelve. Eleven … Read More

Mary, from TMI Weekly, catches up with her two friends who got married in their 20's. What's married life like at an early age? We get the scoop on the difficulties and rewards of marriage.

Brandy did it a decade ago. Jennifer Garner and Gwyneth Paltrow did it a few years ago. Christina Milian did it just last month. And plenty of regular people have done it for most of recorded history. We speak, of course, of the old shotgun wedding; a tradition that, fortunately these days, rarely involves a shotgun. Are you pregnant and considering a shotgun wedding? If so, we recommend you ask yourself a few questions first.

1. Are others pressuring you to get married? Do you feel that you're only considering tying the knot because your parents are telling you … Read More

With headlines like "Crank them wedding bells," the shocking number one Web search this morning is "Soulja Boy fiancee." We're getting right down to it.

This morning reports emerged that the rapper got engaged sometime in the past week. Soulja Boy, or DeAndre Ramone Way, popped the question to his video model girlfriend Rosa Acosta, a Dominican native and ballet superstar. One of Soulja Boy's famous friends evidently leaked the info.

Really, the leak wouldn't be too big of a deal, considering Soulja spreads his updates around the world wide Web. Soulja regularly takes to his Twitter follow base … Read More

As I was taking in a soda pop and the morning interweb browse today, I noticed that one of the Kardashian sisters became engaged, "Whoopty-doo hurray!," I thought. I was pretty happy for Kim and her guy Reggie Bush, I mean "finally," right? They'd had a tough go of it, but maybe it's just meant to be. But it wasn't Kim Kardashian getting engaged. Which means that it must be have been Kourtney Kardashian, the expecting sister who is yet unmarried and unbetrothed. Way to "do the right thing," Scott Disick, I thought. But I still was guessing the wrong Kardashian. … Read More

Word on the street is that Khloe Kardashian will be tying the knot with her LA Lakers boyfriend Lamar Odom this upcoming weekend. If these rumors are correct, that means the two will be agreeing to spend the rest of their lives together after only about a month of dating. But is marrying someone after such a brief time really such a terrible idea? Or does doing so have its benefits? Marriage: Sacred Or Smashed Institution?

We've thought it over, and come up with some reasons in favor of and against marrying someone you hardly know.

The Pros:

1. It can … Read More