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How to move on if your date won't return your calls, texts, emails, Facebook messages...

Never Heard From Your Date Again? 4 Things To Remember

You thought things were going perfectly. Until he completely stopped returning your calls.

You haven't just been slow-faded. You've been Houdini-ed. But hey, at least you're not letting it get you down, right Crazy Eyes? And you're definitely not about to text them again just to make sure they got your last few calls and text messages since, you know, your phone has been acting kind of weird all week? After all, you're keeping the following in mind…

Rich Wannabe-Grandparents Are Paying To Freeze Daughters' Eggs
When parents foot the fertility bill.

Rich Wannabe-Grandparents Are Paying To Freeze Daughters' Eggs

The procedure to freeze eggs costs between $8,000 and $18,000.

Mother Nature's biological clock stops for no one, not even wannabe grandparents. And that's why, instead of nagging their daughters about why they have not settled down and started pumping out babies, today's moms and dads are helping to foot the bill to freeze their eggs.

10 Signs You're Dating A Sociopath
Beware: Sociopaths are extremely charming.

10 Signs You're Dating A Sociopath

Four percent of the population has sociopathic character traits. How to avoid dating them.

There are people in the world who don't care about love, who feel no remorse, empathy or emotional attachment to others. In fact, they don't even know what these feelings are. These people are called sociopaths.

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Men love brunettes in red dresses. Science says so.

14 Things Men Love, According To Science

Men's turn-ons include the color red, cuddling, boobs and pumpkin pie. Fascinating.

I had a good chuckle over Made Man's list of Things Science Says Women Love. Apparently we are all suckers for homosexual men who look like our dads and don't smile. Thanks, science! Oh, the image I'm conjuring right now is unsettling. Anyhow … I felt inspired to roundup a few of the things science says men love.

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It will take a mighty special person to get me to break up with my bachelorette pad.

7 Reasons All Women Should Live Alone At Least Once

I've lived with roommates and my ex-fiance, and discovered that living alone is much, much better.

I have written before about how much I enjoy living alone. I got my own apartment shortly after my fiancé and I broke up; though I did very much enjoy cohabiting with him — having roommates in college and in my first years in NYC, not so much — I quickly discovered that living alone was so much better.

5 Steps To Finding A Boyfriend When Online Dating
Yes, you can find an actual boyfriend when dating online!

5 Steps To Finding A Boyfriend When Online Dating

I was real and honest in what I'm looking for, and I nabbed a guy through online dating.

I understand why online dating gets a bad rap: It takes away the fun of the "meet-cute" and forces you to judge, based on very little information, whether you want to take risks with someone else's neuroses and perversions. There have been online dates I've been on over the past four years, such as with the 9/11 conspiracy theorist, that I've hated, too.

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Are you handy with tools? That could turn a man on.

10 Surprising Things That Turn Men On

Men are unpredictable: They have some surprising turn-ons.

Men are both exceedingly complex and irritatingly simplistic creatures, so it makes total sense that the following 10 surprisingly everyday things are the turn-ons that really work.

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Don't waste time on a relationship that's not meant to last.

5 Ways Relationships Get Drawn Out Past Their Expiration Date

Comedian Sara Barron advises avoiding these five "relationship draw-outs."

If there's one sure thing besides death and taxes it's that you, whoever you are, have, at some point in your romantic career, drawn out a relationship longer than was healthy. You're not to be blamed. It's a simple law of nature: Relationships never end when they're supposed to.

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The Oscars are tonight!

What Your Oscars' 'Best Picture' Pick Says About Your Love Life

How does your Academy Awards choice for Best Picture reflect on you in the dating pool?

The 2012 Oscars (or The 84th Annual Academy Awards if you're scouring the DVR listings to find it) are tonight! You've probably already made your Oscar pool picks (or plan to root for that one movie you actually saw). But how does your choice for Best Picture reflect on you in the dating pool?

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Work it, Kate Upton.

10 Reasons Big Breasts Are Great (And 10 Reasons They're Not)

Big boobs are both a blessing and a curse.

Large breasts are idolized in pop culture, but the experience of actually walking around with two watermelons attached to your chest? Well, sometimes it's awesome, and sometimes it's decidedly not awesome.

10 Things Never To Say In Bed
No wonder he rolled over and fell asleep.

10 Things Never To Say In Bed

The last things men need to hear during sex.

When it comes to spicing things up and communicating your sex needs, get the conversation going in the right direction — UP! — by avoiding these specifics statements that only make your stud feel like a dud…