When you've got it bad for someone, it's tempting to shut off logic and ignore the questionable.

You may want to focus on the good (He called! He asked me to dinner! He picked up the check!) and glaze over all that happened in between. We're very happy he figured out how to use the phone and that you're eating well, but listen up to some of the verbal red flags dribbling out of his mouth between bites. If he utters any of the below, view in the same vein as a "low battery" warning on your iPhone. Indeed, your listening … Read More

Just when you thought you'd all but mastered the complicated art of real world flirting—the Internet comes along and opens its scary and confusing jaws to a whole new checklist of proper etiquette. Savvy online-dating women have learned to filter through the stream of floating heads, "wasssups!" and winks until we find someone worthy of a meet-up. If your newest online crush falls into any of the below, it might be time to throw him back into the online ocean. Online Dating Coaches Help Us Maximize Our Upside

1.) A picture-less profile

This is like a red … Read More

Senator Ted Kennedy died last night, and today everyone is talking about his legacy—the good parts and the bad, which got us to thinking: Could an incident from someone's past make you unwilling to date them? Case in point: the Chappaquiddick incident.

A quick recap: on July 18, 1969, while driving home from a party Ted Kennedy drove off a bridge. He swam to safety, but his passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, didn’t make it out of the car. Kennedy didn't report the incident until the next day, after a diver found her body still inside the vehicle.

Besides saying he panicked—Kennedy never … Read More

Jennifer (name changed) didn't have sex with her ex-husband on their wedding night. "I chalked it up to fatigue," she says. But should it have been a red flag? Well, maybe. Read: 12 Relationship Red Flags

It's not that it didn't happen that one night that was the problem; it's that it was the first of many sexless married nights. As an engaged couple, Jennifer and her fiancé were doing it about three times a week, but once they said their vows, it quickly dwindled to about once a month—sometimes less.

Some experts call marriages that average 10 … Read More

Women are the traditional consumers of self-help books, but guys need advice too. And what better way to find out what goes on inside his head than to read dating advice written by and for men? (Some might say you could ask him, but where's the fun in that?)

In this spirit we bring you this piece by men's lifestyle expert, Oliver "Ali" Nejad, who fills you in on four red flags men look for when they're on a date.

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Gentlemen, over the course of our dating careers one of the easiest things we've learned to pick up on are … Read More

While we like to think ourselves nobler than to break up with someone because of a habit such as excessive ketchup use, many a relationship's demise has begun with annoying minutiae and ended with the phrase: "I love you, but..."

Alex Holder and Ross Neil started dating three years ago and made an effort to be honest with each other about the little quirks that can quickly drive a partner mad. The couple, both creatives at a London ad agency, recently launched Loveyoubut, a website featuring possible endings to the "I love you, but..." declaration. Ross … Read More