It's Friday and I know that most of you have already checked out for the weekend. I know I have. In that regard I've rounded up the best of the webnet on love and relationships. You can probably soak a good hour or so making it through all of these. Good luck and enjoy the weekend. 

Our buddies at The Frisky know that sometimes friends are frenemies and sometimes frenemies can totally eff up your relationship. There are five personality types most likely to sabotage your love life. Kudos to the author on her profile pic; someone has a sense … Read More

Academic research on cross-cultural couples has tended toward the negative, said Kyle Killian, an associate professor of psychology at York University, Canada's third largest, in an Alumni Matters article. But time has brought an increase in the number of intercultural couples as well as an increase in social acceptance.

Recent studies do not suggest that there's a greater likelihood of separation and divorce in cross-cultural marriages, Killian said in an interview with loveandblueberries.com. Killian aims to spread this updated, more positive message with the new 12-chapter book he co-edited, Intercultural Couples: Exploring Diveristy in Intimate Relationships.

"In the past, intercultural relationships were quite taboo. There … Read More

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Interracial marriages are on the rise in the U.S., but Hispanic and Asian immigrants are increasingly marrying within their race. [Washington Post]

The generation that is coming of age is the most open-minded in history and living in the Obama era -- where hues mingle in classrooms, nightclubs and the White House. Conventional wisdom has it that they will begin choosing spouses of other ethnicities as the number of interracial marriages rises.

But scholars delving into the U.S. Census have found a surprising converse trend. Although interracial marriages overall have increased, the rate … Read More

If you're going to become a pioneer for interracial marriage, it's helpful to have the last name of Loving.

But Mildred Loving didn't like calling attention to herself for that—or the fact that she and her white husband changed history when they took their fight to make love colorblind all the way to the Supreme Court.

According to a Yahoo! News story, the couple from rural Virginia met when she was 11, he 17. When she got pregnant, at 18, they married, not realizing it was illegal—until they were arrested. They eventually … Read More