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May 2011

The bad mood relationship litmus test.

admin - May 27, 2011

If you’re anything like me you can’t be within five feet of a unpeeled banana, are furious that you’re not yet best friends with Heidi Klum, and are particularly prickly about how you’re treated when you’re in a particularly prickly mood. Luckily most people in my life are up to speed on the banana situation, I now live in L.A. and I’m not usually prone …

Graduating for the third time

admin - May 25, 2011

–> I may or may not have mentioned that two of my younger sisters followed in my footsteps by attending the Boston College. This is very wonderful because we share a the very unique experience of knowing what it is to spend four years on “The Heights” learning to be “women and men for others” educated to “set the world aflame” (read: we have the …

Doesn’t it take two to have a love child?

admin - May 18, 2011

Something about this whole Arnold Schwarzenegger as baby-daddy ordeal struck me as strange. No, it wasn’t the fact that Arnold hid a love child from his wife of 25 years nor was it that the love child was the product of an affair with a member of his house staff. Sadly, I didn’t find all of that particularly shocking. What was strange in my admittedly …

How can you possibly take it slower than not officially dating?

admin - May 16, 2011

Allow me to paint a picture for you and then explain why I think that picture is absolutely ridiculous. A guy and a girl meet, determine that they enjoy each other and begin “dating.” I say “dating” instead of dating because one or both parties might not consider it dating. There are people who don’t consider the act of joining each other in multiple, consecutive …

What exactly is the allure of the older man?

admin - May 11, 2011

This topic comes courtesy of an e-mail from reader Caitlin in an unknown city and state. Caitlin writes: “What is it with the allure of an older man? Is it the idea we younger girls have that older somehow means wise? (Even when the Red Flags are flyin’ high and all signs indicate that age does not equal wisdom). What’s the deal?”Truth be told, Caitlin, …

Why IRL (in real life) is becoming a ubiquitous at OMG, and what that means for relationships

admin - May 4, 2011

Once a year the New York Times’ Modern Love column runs a contest for college students to submit their essays about love, intimacy and relationships. For the past several years the winning submissions have had something to do with “hook up culture.” Students trying to find intimacy where there generally is not or trying to defend the fact that they’re not looking for it. This …

L.A. 8 months in: Mom’s first visit

admin - May 2, 2011

There is nothing more nerve-wracking than your mother’s first visit to the city she’s been begging you not to move to for the past decade. Add to that the fact that you’re fully adjusted after eight months in this new home, have the first serious boyfriend of your life, and don’t currently need anything at Bed, Bath, & Beyond. In the words of my mother, …