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

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

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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

Every so often, something comes across my computer and I can't decide whether it's the most un-feminist thing ever -- or if it's brilliant.  Enter PMSBuddy.com, the free online PMS reminder, which trumpets it's "saving relationships -- one month at a time!" 

PMSBuddy functions as a messenger to the men in your life to say, Warning!  Warning!  Aunt Flo is back with a vengeance!  Stock the freezer with Cherry Garcia, keep the Midol close at hand, and don't even think about touching my boobs because they're friggin' tender.

If you're a woman, PMSBuddy will … Read More

Wondering what your friends think of Sarah Palin or if people think marriage is going out of style? Answer your questions at Urtak, a new website that lets you create polls and answer questions.

Urtak calls itself "the world's first experiment in collaborative public opinion." It's new and its users are self-selecting, so we can't say with certainty that 11% of people would pay $40,000 for a date with Scarlett Johansson (although now that she's married, they probably wouldn't get their money's worth). We can say that Urtak is an interesting alternative to traditional polls like … Read More

Online dating threw me an unexpected curveball: my career.

As a professional writer, I gave men an easy topic to make conversation about in their initial flirtacious emails: "Where do you work? What do you write about?" The problem is, these men already knew my first name was Jessica; I knew that as soon as I gave them any other clue about my work, they'd be off and Googling. That's certainly what I did to a fellow JDating journalist who worked at a major entertainment magazine told me he once interviewed Blake Lively: it took … Read More