Because it's awash in a sea of mediocrity, we sometimes forget that there are some good things on the interwebs. I've scoured the entire nets (it took a while) for the best of love and relationships today so you wouldn't have to. Here goes: 

Over at Lemondrop, our good friend standup comic Allison Castillo (pronounced "kast-ill-oh") is fed up with the term "cougar." The Courtney Cox fall television show Cougar Town isn't helping things. Hopefully, the Bill Lawrence-created (Spin City, Scrubs) sitcom will use the time-tested comedic technique of pointing out the painfully obvious and exaggerating it. Check out … Read More

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

While scouring the web for the latest in dating advice we were lured into CNN's roundup of dating do's and don'ts informed by three matchmakers. In reading through the article we discovered that quite possibly, according to this list, we rank among the worst daters of the land. Here's why.

Firstly, these tips read a bit like hard-and-fast dating rules (do this; don't do that) to which one should strictly adhere. But for many of us, the act of dating is more of a case-by-case and play-by-play animal. It's often based on cues, hunches and sometimes even … Read More

Not nearly content enough to admire them from afar, Dr. Alex Benzar aligns himself with modern women everywhere. His affinity for modern day goddesses in particular is the motivating factor behind the book The Tao of Dating: The Smart Woman's Guide to Embracing Your Inner Goddess and Finding the Fulfillment You Deserve. If you think the title takes work, just wait until you read the rest. According to his recent article for The Huffington Post, How To Be A Modern Goddess...According To A Guy, Benzar describes a modern goddess as all at once self-depreciating, self-serving and super … Read More

Dear Ladies: Before you don't return my call, allow me to explain something: I am a rebel.

When it comes to dating, there are so many rules. Rules, rules, rules. You can't call someone the day after you get her number. You're not supposed to wear a T-shirt with holes in it to your new flame's swanky birthday dinner. When someone says, "call me back—if you want to," the day after you have a "talk" about not "calling enough," maybe you should just call her back, even if you don't want to.

Obviously, these "rules" are for the most … Read More

Advising women about what not to wear on a date is a significantly easier task than suggesting what to wear. Why? Simply because so many outfit choices are potentially wrong (which makes many fewer correct). Despite their seeming oblivion, men actually do notice what a woman wears.

"It does matter," says Jeffrey, a New York-based social worker. “A woman’s attire conveys to others how she feels about the occasion at hand.”

Therefore, to help you avoid communicating something you’d probably prefer not to—such as disinterest, promiscuity, prudishness, or insanity—during your next romantic encounter, YourTango has compiled a guide … Read More

We hope that there is some kernel of truth in this; it's too fantastic not to be true. Evidently, there are a few rules to dating Facebook billionaire Mark Zuckerberg. Evidently, the list is equal parts how-to and Magna Carta for women dating a dotcom dude.

The Wall Street Journal Blog reports that there some simple rules for dating this teenage billionaire. While we have neither ability nor the inclination to run through the list, one of the things that Priscilla Chan (Zuckerberg's ladysmith) is entitled to, as girlf of the anointed one, is 100 minutes of dating … Read More

A couple of years ago, I fell hard for a dark-haired Swedish drummer who was in a metal band called Obligatory Torture. (In its native form, Obligatorisk Tortyr, it sounded kind of sexy.) He had a tattoo, nose and tongue piercings, and pronounced "yogurt" like it began with a "j."As a first-generation Indian-American, I had a very different background from the Swede, which made us endlessly exotic to each other. He was deeply interested in my culture—and I was deeply interested in the fact that he was about as far away from being Indian as I could get. But we … Read More