It's Friday and it's time for links. So you don't have to surf the internet yourself, here are the best the web has to offer in terms of love and relationships. I'm not a hero, I do this for love.

The gals at The Frisky have a great list of dos and, more importantly, don'ts about trying to get back with an ex. My plan is: be awesome, apologize profusely (regardless of whether you mean it) and make promises that you could never possibly keep. 

With exes on the brain, Em & Lo (EmAndLo.com) field a question from a … Read More

No one has probably ever told you this but being a successful twentysomething living in New York The City isn't all peaches and cream. There's job stress, living situation stress, friendship stress, relationship stress and sometimes Bob Saget smugly reminisces about the whole sordid affair. While How I Met Your Mother is framed as flashbacks (narrated by Saget) of the protagonist's (Ted) quest to find a woman to make babies with him, the ensemble brings much more to the table than that. Read: One-Night Stands, Karma & CBS

The five main characters, Robin (Cobie Smolders), Barney (Neil Patrick Harris), … Read More

Do you know what couples skating is? I'm sure you do. I'm sure that you've been both perpetrator and victim of this nefarious practice. Now that we all know we're in the same boat, let's discuss what couples skating is and is not.

Couples skating is not turning figure eights on an icy surface. Couples skating is neglecting your friends. Couples skating is not doing the now-outlawed Detroiter for the delight of fans and scorn of judges. Couples skating is spending five weekends in a row at home. Couples skating is not performing the legendary Iron Lotus. … Read More

There are a lot of things that are forbidden fruit to best bros (or even close bros), the list of these verboten acts constitute the bro code. While the written Bro Code is a contrivance of How I Met Your Mother's Barney Stinson (played awesomely by Neil Patrick Harris), unwritten (and largely unsaid) rules exist between real life bros.

Almost all of these unwritten rules involve the acquisition or retention of tail. There are several understandings between gentlemen that all but make moot the phrase "all is fair in love and war." Chief among … Read More

Ruh-roh. According to the New York Post's Page Six, Gretchen Rossi is dating (surely in the exploratory phase) Slade Smiley. The two were recently spotted at a Lakers game. As you may recall, Real Housewives Of Orange County fans, Slade Smiley was engaged to Jo De La Rosa back in the day. In fact, their ill-suited romance made for the premise of the spin-off Date My Ex: Jo And Slade.

Judging from the concept of Date My Ex, you'd think that Jo De La Rosa would be cool with Slade moving on. After all, he did … Read More

Hey, howaboutthat? A skinny kid from a broken family with a funny last name is the next President of the United States. Not only that, he has the kind of mandate and goodwill that we haven't seen since September 2001, and a former opponent that seemed sincere and ready to follow in his concession speech. Many of us haven't seen that in our lives.

But how much do we really know about Barack Obama? We know that he's from Chicago, was some kind of lawyer, and has a good-looking wife. (Sorry, I find Michelle Obama attractive.) We know … Read More