We can't help but remember our first loves, even if we'd rather forget them.

Whether it was a high school sweetheart, your first real relationship after college, or the first person you said "I love you" to, chances are that person still holds a powerful spell over you. Now a brand-new TV show is betting on the fact that—if you haven't already found him on Facebook—you'd like the opportunity to reconnect in real life. Or maybe on live TV. Lemondrop: Reunion Stunts Are Popular, Especially If You Weren't

Each Wednesday, First Love, Second Chance follows a couple who have decided … Read More

We've all heard of the honeymoon period—that time of sweet relief and excitement just after the wedding when many folks are thrilled just to be newlyweds. But what is the term for the two-year, 11-month mark?

This point in a marriage (or, more specifically, two years, 11 months and eight days after having tied the knot) is reportedly when a couple's happiness reaches its peak. According to a recent survey, "Just under three years emerged as the point when couples feel completely comfortable with each other's bad habits and have a plan for their future." Lemondrop: Is "We" The Key … Read More

I'm a brand-spanking newlywed whose single biggest fear about marriage was the word wife.

For me, it conjures up centuries of well-worn stereotypes: Women in bonnets bent over hot stoves, and '60s Stepford-types handing over martinis with tight smiles—nothing resembling the thoroughly-2010 relationship I have with the guy I love. Lemondrop: The Obamas Prove What We Already Knew — Marriage Is Hard Work

I said "I do" to him because he's irreverent but responsible, scary-smart but socially graceful, and the person who never fails to make me guffaw. In fact, one fateful day after a bad breakup, before we were even … Read More

Maybe it's because Bride Wars is on heavy rotation on cable this month, but there's something about a bride being completely selfless that seems somehow harder to believe than Kate Hudson with blue highlights. Lemondrop: What Do Brides and Bridesmaids Really Think of Each Other?

Minnesota couple Charmagne Tessmer and her new husband Aaron Derichs actually rescheduled their wedding to watch the high school football game her little brother Ivan was playing in that same day. The game was an unexpected one—her little bro's team made it to the state semifinals, and Saturday's game was scheduled to begin at … Read More

Just because you're not boiling bunnies doesn't mean you're totally over your ex (Exhibit A: last Friday's 3 a.m. drunk-dialing episode). Just ask Heather Belle and Michelle Fiordaliso, authors of the post-relationship guide, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Ex*.

The book's premise: that keeping your ex in your life, aka "exing"—whether that involves a no-strings-attached hook-up or daily monitoring of his Facebook page—is sabotaging your future happiness. Here are six common exing patterns to 86 from your life (along with that dude!). Lemondrop: How To Stay Friends With Your Ex

1. Putting your ex on a pedestal. In … Read More

According to Esquire, women aren't attracted to vampires in movies and on television because they're hot—we're attracted to them because we all secretly want to have sex with gay dudes. Sorry, Robert Pattinson, turns out you just remind us of a sparkly, prancing dandy. And vampire Eric, apparently we think you would make a great addition to our next sleepover. Lemondrop: Esquire's '75 Things You Don't Know About Women'—the Best & Worst

But if we're only into vampires because we want to bone dudes playing for the other team, what about other monsters? What does it mean … Read More

I've been watching rom-coms my entire life. We all have. We know the couple will end up together but we relish the drama anyway, and while it seems like harmless fun, they've given us a terrible blueprint for how to date. I admit that I'm indoctrinated, but at least I've come to recognize it.

I'm not talking about the no-brainers. Everybody knows that you don't wake up one day and realize you love your best dude friend. I'm talking about the stuff that you may not even think you learned from Eternal Sunshine, but that you're secretly sabotaging your relationships because … Read More

Halloween! Horror films, haunted houses and ... hooking up? Oh yes. The same month that's synonymous with ghosts and goblins is also prime time for gettin' some. And because we're just so durned helpful, we've listed the top four ways to do just that while incorporating your favorite fall activities. Yes, they're cheesy, and yes, they'll probably work.

 Happy (early) Halloween!

1. The Haunted House Grope

Here's the drill. Find the cutest dude in line (or drag your hottest friend along) and make sure you enter the haunted house directly behind him. BOOM! Pitch black. Nobody knows whose hands are whose and if … Read More

Love Bytes: 10 must-click love and relationship links.

Last night, David Letterman revealed that he was recently blackmailed for $2 million for having sexual relationships with female members of his staff. Watch video here. [TresSugar]

The First Couple prove that absence does make the heart grow fonder through PDAs in Copenhagen yesterday. [HuffPo]

In honor of the Jewish new year, have kosher sex! Molly Mann reveals some Talmudic secrets. [DivineCaroline]

Academy Award-winning director, Roman Polanski, was convicted and will possibly be extradited to the U.S. for drugging and sleeping with 13-year-old Samantha Geimer in 1977. [BuzzFeed]

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Love Bytes: Nine must-click sex, love and relationship links.  

Does your libido make you sleep with Mr. Wrong? [Em&Lo]

More on Cougar Convention 2009 (with pictures!). [Asylum]

Think men are the unfaithful sex? A study shows WOMEN are the biggest cheats! [Daily Mail]

Six things you can learn from a guy's apartment. [Marie Claire]

Stimulus dollars for sex offenders? [The Daily Beast]

Jim Bob Duggar's tips for a happy marriage. [MSNBC]

We asked an Amish couple we met who had been married 50 years what the most important thing to know about marriage was," says … Read More