Advice, stories, and real talk on love, dating, and more.
Advice, stories, and real talk on love, dating, and more.
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Cultural appropriation is when members of the dominant culture adopt elements from the minority culture in such a way that their meaning is lost or distorted. The display is offensive because it feels like people in the majority are cosplaying as an 'exotic' minority without experiencing any of the discrimination…
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In this era of modern love, we're only just figuring out the proper etiquette of how to behave on Tinder dates. Certainly, mastering the act of seeming interested but not too interested can be tough, and we've just about come to terms with the fact that the three-day calling rule no longer…
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We've all heard of the stereotypical gold digger. You know: the hot young woman who flirts with rich, usually older, men. The wealthy old Scrooge McDucks might well believe that 22-year-old Cindi has fallen head-over-heels in love with them thanks to their winning personality, but in reality, the rest of…
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One of the biggest arguments which still plagues society to this day, particularly between men and women, is this: should the toilet seat stay up or down? It's one of those things which many people constantly complain about, while other folks don't see what the big deal is. One side…
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At some point in life, many of us will go through the horrible experience of losing a parent. A person you love dearly, who raised you, who has been there since day one, is suddenly gone forever. If you're an adult, you have a lifetime of memories to fall back…
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When Stephanie Agnue was 18, her mom was diagnosed with Cone-Rod Dystrophy, an inherited eye disorder that affects the sensitive parts of the retinas. The disease causes vision loss, gets progressively worse over time and there is no known cure. One year after her mom's diagnosis, Stephanie was diagnosed. At…
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Even as we grow up and become more comfortable with ourselves and the world around us, there are some things we just can't change. Each and every one of us has unique and incredible qualities worthy of love and acceptance, but sadly, not all of us can be deemed above…
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People can fall in love despite the most onerous of circumstances; during a war, or battling a terrible illness, or in the midst of some great personal tragedy, passion and desire can still bloom between two people. Nobody proves this axiom better than Jason and Martha Batup; two remarkable people who fell…
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Diane De Zoysa, a 60-year-old woman from the UK, has returned home heartbroken this week after spending her life savings on a 26-year-old man she met while on holiday in 2011. Priyanjana De Zoysa, a former hotel worker, started up an intense relationship with the pensioner seven years ago and,…
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Moms brought us into the world, nurtured us as babies, and helped raise us into the semi-functioning adults we are today. So, it's only fair that we return the favor with a hilarious prank. Sure it might irritate her, but one day she'll laugh about it. One day. Okay, you…
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Teenagers always get in epic fights with their parents. Maybe they disapproved of your hairstyle ("Turquoise mullets are in!"), or maybe they caught you coming home too late ("It's only 4 am!), or maybe they washed your clothes and found beer bottle caps in your pockets ("I, uh, was just…
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Maybe it's because the royal wedding was such a smash hit, but 2018 has felt like a good year to get hitched. Seriously, couples all over the world seem to have been buoyed up by the romance of it all, and have thus decided to seal the deal by putting…
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All of us, at some point in our lives, have met the one that got away. A person who our heart ached to be with, whom we fell helplessly, painfully in love with, but whom we couldn't have. Through chance or circumstance, your own mistakes or just the gradually cooling…
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It doesn't feel like it was that long ago that online dating was something done by a small number of people. It was associated mostly with divorcees and others who were hitting their 50s and were sick of the dating scene, preferring to find someone with similar interests with whom…
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Finding love in the modern world can be a tricky business. If you want to be in with a chance of meeting anyone, you have to sign up to some newfangled form of online dating; and if you actually want to win someone over with your five-picture, 100-word profile, you…
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Love is often a bittersweet thing, and finding your life partner really is like finding the needle in the figurative haystack. There are so many impediments between the potential love of your life - it could be an age difference, your careers, the literal proximity between you, or simply a combination…
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The dating scene is a fickle business. Unless you're a conventionally attractive human being who's generally doing alright for themselves in life, the chances of you scoring a partner who fits into that category are incredibly low. And that's just sort of how things go: the hot people date the…
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It's a sad fact that people on the internet will take any opportunity they can get to shame and judge other people, whether they're friends, strangers or even family members. It often seems like social media has only served to exacerbate our least empathetic traits, and can turn the most…
