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Romance rules for the digital age.
Technology has fundamentally changed the way we seek, nurture, and experience intimacy. Beyond the coy status updates, drunken emails and occasional sexting, we find soulmates on dating sites, we send "I <3 U's" with our thumbs, we fight over IM, make up over email, then go on Facebook to announce to the world our renewed devotion. Gadgets have enhanced our love lives, but they also enable mixed messages, vague sentiments and other bits of intentional or unintentional confusion. Texting Your Way To Love
The questions around protocol are endless: Should I text him or email him? She sounds sad … Read More
Kristen Stewart is Robert Pattinson's most-dialed number, with reported 400 texts per month.
Get ready, this is juicy: Robert Pattinson reportedly calls and texts Kristen Stewart more than 12 times every day. YourTango: Text Message Flirting For Beginners
The Twilight/New Moon/Eclipse co-stars whose platonic romance mystifies us all are reportedly in constant contact. Celebitchy and National Enquirer have reported the following:
One bite away from eternal love? Vampire stud Robert Pattinson and his Twilight film co-star Kristen Stewart looked hot enough to fry steak on at Comic-Con… but here’s the new 411: Pattinson told a close pal he texts Kristen some 400 times a months!
He says a … Read More
Text messages, emails, love oh my! Advice about technology and relationships.
Ever sent a sexy text to your boyfriend... and then realized it was actually to your boss? Do you know your partner's email password? Are you constantly checking your Blackberry—even when you're on a date? Even if you've never experienced these tech troubles, it's likely that you've encountered the intersection of technology and relationships—and maybe you've wondered how to set some rules for yourself and your partner. Below, 20 dos and don'ts when mixing love with the latest technology. What are your rules? Let us know in the comments.
DO plug in your significant other's iPhone, Blackberry or computer in … Read More
Why your tech preference matters and what it says about you.
Compatibility was already complicated enough. She's an only-child; he's from a family of 12. He's a meticulous planner; she's fly-by-her-seat spontaneous. But technology is fast adding an entirely new layer of compatibility for would-be couples. And it can suss out the potential for a relationship in a matter of dates, reports Monica Hesse for The Washington Post.
Indeed, mismatched technology preferences can end a romance before it begins. The hardest hit generation? Thirtysomethings, Kelli Lawless, who helms Dating and Mating in America, told the Post.
Apparently, the forty-ish are most likely to be in sync technologically (with … Read More
Men discuss if they would ever check their girlfriend's email or cell phone.
The other night, when I was having dinner with a guy friend who told me my engagement history might scare off some guys, we also discussed the issue of privacy in a relationship and how big of a deal it can be when that privacy is violated. He maintains that checking your partner's email, cell phone call log, and text messages is totally wrong, whereas I think it's wrong, but not pathological or evil. Frankly, I know many women who do the occasional cell phone check or email glance (and a few women who do oh-so-much more), but what … Read More
Text, email, Facebook and Twitter make it harder to follow dating rules.
Remember when dating simply meant a guy asking out a girl? Maybe he would call her up, maybe he'd do it face to face. Either way, the options were limited, and the results easy to decipher.
Now with email, instant message, texting, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and their brethren at our disposal, we have found plenty of new ways to communicate and even more ways to mess it up. Where there's a new technology, there's a potential relationship dissolving because of its (mis)use. Watch: Facebook Manners And You
"Each form of communication has its own followers and rules, which means … Read More
Cell phone dating etiquette, recession sexism and is your man afraid of commitment?
Love Bytes: three must click sex, dating, and relationship links.
Is it ever justified to use your cell on a date? [DearSugar]
If you're on a blind date and you think there's a chance you'll need to make a quick escape, by all means keep that phone on the table for your "emergency" call from your best friend.
He-cession vs. she-cession. Which gender is the recession hitting harder? [Asylum]
Signs a man is scared of commitment. [Lemondrop]
The truth behind why he doesn't call you back.
One of my biggest pet peeves with the male population is when a guy doesn't call back. Yes, I know that I should take a hint from He's Just Not That Into You and know that no call = no interest, but it still makes me mad.If a guy says he's gonna call, then he should call. And if he's not interested, then he should just suck it up, be a man, and tell me. I'm an adult - I can handle it. I who would rather have a definitive answer than be left wondering.And wonder I do.I … Read More
There's a difference between dealing with his dirty laundry and digging up real dirt.
As a semi-live-in girlfriend, I encounter all kinds of things in my boyfriend's boudoir that he might have previously attempted to put away or hide to create a more presentable version of himself. Well those days are long gone and I am now subject to every dirty pair of boxers, week old Taco Bell leftover and wet, mildewed towel left on the bed. But these things I'm pretty much immune to. Guys' rooms are almost by definition a hell of a lot dirtier than girls (at least I like to pretend) and all of these little things Read More
