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  • How to Repel the Opposite Sex Just in Time for Valentine’s Day
    In Love

    How to Repel the Opposite Sex Just in Time for Valentine’s Day

    Valentine’s Day looms over the horizon like a behemoth; rearing its eight tentacled heads as it prepares for a charge, mowing over our convenience stores, card shops, coffee houses, and eventually, our psyches.

  • Valentine’s Day: Can’t Wait or Can’t Wait For It To Be Over?
    In Love

    Valentine’s Day: Can’t Wait or Can’t Wait For It To Be Over?

    In any event, if you are single, newly dating, fresh from a breakup, or in a serious relationship, Valentine’s Day can be an enjoyable experience if you decide to make it that.

  • Try an Interdependent Relationship in 2012
    twodaymag's Lifestyle Contributor: Kristen Houghton

    Try an Interdependent Relationship in 2012

    This type of relationship is a dynamic combination of being mutually and physically responsible to each another. It differs distinctly from "dependence" in that an interdependent relationship implies both participants are equal partners.

  • Has Christmas Lost Its Allure?
    In Love

    Has Christmas Lost Its Allure?

    In the last couple of years, Christmas has lost its allure for me. All the joys of it have faded. It begins the day after Thanksgiving. I can’t go to the mall or turn on the radio or TV without being bombarded with commercials and ads telling me to buy stuff.

  • Can Your Relationships Survive the ‘Most Wonderful Time of the Year’?
    In Love

    Can Your Relationships Survive the ‘Most Wonderful Time of the Year’?

    Most of us feel that need to gather with family this time of year, even if we don’t celebrate Christmas or Hanukkah. And sometimes the holidays bring out the worst in families: Old grudges resurface, and competitive siblings vie for attention (and I’m talking about grownups here, not kids) from their parents.

  • Is Marital Fidelity Just Good Politics?
    Celebrity Relationships

    Is Marital Fidelity Just Good Politics?

    Despite his past failures at "traditional" marriage, Gingrich is a rabid defender of the Defense of Marriage Act (written into law when he was speaker of the US House of Representatives) and a vocal supporter of a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage.  To prove just how much he means business this time around, Gingrich says he will respect the institution of marriage by staying faithful to his wife.

  • An Inconvenient Love
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    An Inconvenient Love

    There is an uneasiness experienced through the inconvenience of love, because often it makes us go outside of ourselves. It takes courage to seize something that is inconvenient. It takes risk.

  • Marrying Your Best Friend’s Ex
    twodaymag's Lifestyle Contributor: Kristen Houghton

    Marrying Your Best Friend’s Ex

    While your “man” marrying a stranger is hard enough to swallow, marrying a woman you know pretty well is impossible to digest! You begin thinking about whether your husband and your friend had been carrying on behind your back during your marriage...

  • “Virgin Diaries”: Worth the Wait?
    Bobby's World

    “Virgin Diaries”: Worth the Wait?

    A new program — “Virgin Diaries” — on Discovery’s TLC documents the lives of 20- and 30-something virgins, including a soon-to-be-wed couple who each will have their first kiss upon saying, “I do.”

  • What He’s Really Thinking When He Sees You Nude
    twodaymag's Lifestyle Contributor: Kristen Houghton

    What He’s Really Thinking When He Sees You Nude

    The question of what a man is thinking when he sees his woman nude in front of him is something just about all women have asked ourselves at one time or another.