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Men just aren't into shopping, flowers or the telephone.
Stop me if you've heard this one: men seem to be from one planet while women are from another planet altogether. While making sweeping gender generalizations borders on insulting, there are some Martian tendencies on our part and Venusian on y'all's part (aw, crap, now I've done it). Read:10 Simple Things Women Want
1. Flowers. Our homeys at The Frisky bumped into a major Mars-Venus issue: Flowers. Their resident dude writer, John DeVore, backs the floral industry and makes several salient points as to why flowers are important...a good read. While I agree with him, I can see … Read More
This week's best video, articles and more from YourTango.
Recently, we've been noticing our intense love of technology. Really, however, would you expect anything less from a website?
But from Facebook profiles to blackberry messenger, we really like technology. And this week, YourTango really showed it. From tips on how to begin flirting via text to how two people with the same name hooked up over Facebook, it's been a high tech week.
However, in case you were too busy updating your address book to notice, here's this week's best from YourTango.
Article: Text Message Flirting For Beginners
This is more than your standard LOL guide.
How to use your cell phone to start or spice up a relationship.
These days, women need to be technologically savvy not only for work, but also for their love lives. In today's dating world, men aren't limiting themselves to calling us. Instead, we've come to expect a flirtatious text or two after a date. If you hit it off, you might even take it to the next level of "sexting"—exchanging sexy images and texts.
Texting is a return to written language as a means of flirting—albeit with a modern twist. For most of the 20th century, besides the occasional love note, our means of romantic expressions were limited to … Read More
What does Jennifer Love Hewitt have to say about love that's so important?
When a celebrity couple makes it past the one-year relationship mark, we crown them "ever-lasting." Until, that is, they are caught on hidden camera kissing a costar.
Suddenly, that same fairy-tale romance turns into tabloid headlines and late night one-liners.
Celebrity relationships seem like a recipe for disaster. If someone isn't hooking up, breaking up or splitting up a marriage, they're filming a scandalous sex scene in real life and leaking their own sex tape. Read: Make Your Best Sex Tape Yet
While celebrities never fail to entertain even the most intellectual among us, their erratic behavior doesn't exactly read like … Read More
Jenn's dating again, don't diss your girlfriends and online dating woes.
Love Bytes: three must click sex, dating and relationship links.
How Jennifer Aniston took Rachel Greenwald's advice and snagged a second date. [LimeLife]
When texting trumps your girl time. [Divine Caroline]
At first, it was surreptitious. Someone would drop out of the conversation and look down in her lap as though she'd just lost an earring or suddenly felt an urge to examine her nails. Inevitably, though, her face would begin to glow an eerie blue, reflected off of the iPhone she held in her lap.
Cautionary tales from a failed online dater. [First Wives World]
Helpful hints: do not take a … Read More
The pitchman and the prostitute, sex with presidents, smothered after three dates.
Love Bytes: three must click sex, dating and relationship links.Vince Shlomi, the ShamWow pitchman, is apparently better at picking up spilled liquids than hookers. [Huffington Post]Justine Lai likes painting portraits of presidents. Presidents and her. Together. Having sex. [Asylum]Three dates and too many text messages later, she feels smothered. But is he being overly eager, or is she being overly standoffish? [Dear Sugar]Between all the different forms of technology, I hear from him every single day, if not twice daily. How can I gently ask him to slow it down? I don’t want to … Read More
People use the internet to find past lovers and stay in touch with their loved ones, says a study.
Seven percent of people in the United States have rekindled a romantic relationship with the help of the internet, according to a new study. Re-establishing contact with a long-lost love can be pretty intense—just ask Teri L. Waine. Her high school boyfriend found her on Facebook and with him came a flood of old memories. But the United States doesn't stand out when it comes to rehabilitating hook-ups from the past. The world-wide average was 14%. The country with the most internet-inspired love renewals? India. A full 37% of Indians say the web has helped them renew … Read More
How you sound over the phone can make or break his next move.
For those of us who still use a telephone for talking—as opposed to strictly texting—leaving the perfect voice mail message requires one part tact and two parts tone. A misplaced punctuation mark can mean the difference between desperation, "Call me back!" and a simple direction, "Call me back." Meanwhile, a misplaced pause or overemphasized adjective is voicemail suicide. And since a single voicemail can be saved into eternity, it's recommended that you practice what you're about to preach, maybe even out loud.When it comes to flirting via voicemail, the emphasis is as much on the voice as … Read More
Women are good at flirty text messages but they might prefer a love letter in return.
Are you receiving boring, non-inspired text messages from your crush? Blame it on his gender.
According to a new study, single ladies are better texters. Researchers at the Indiana University analyzed flirty text messages sent between singletons at a screening of the Italian version of TRL and found that the women's messages were more creative.
What, you may ask, makes a good text message? Getting close to the character limit, using abbreviations (abbrevs, for those in the know) and emoticons. Interesting—we always thought emoticons were for making sarcasm obvious—Hey Pete, that's a cute girl ur talkin 2 ;).
But once … Read More
A guide to good communication etiquette. How often to text, call and IM.
Communication is the cornerstone of a healthy relationship. At least that's what's been shoved down the throats of the love-hungry for decades. And perhaps it was true 150 years ago, when the best way to communicate over any real distance was to write down your thoughts, hand them to a dirty guy on a horse, and have him take off into the remains of the day.
Now, in a warm and fluid world of cell phones, text messages, and IMs, anyone can reach out and touch you, anytime, anyplace. Significant others, naturally, are hands-on. They "just want to hear your … Read More