Tag: dating
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Sustainable Love
Read more: Sustainable LoveThe latest in relationship science relayed by Tara Parker-Pope. “People have a fundamental motivation to improve the self and add to who they are as a person,” Dr. Lewandowski says. “If your partner is helping you become a better person, you become happier and more satisfied in the relationship.”
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Your Flirting Style
Read more: Your Flirting StyleA study says self-awareness about your flirting style helps dating, helps relationships. “Knowing something about the way you communicate attraction says something about challenges you might have had in your past dating life,” Hall said. “Hopefully, this awareness can help people avoid those mistakes and succeed in courtship.” The five styles of flirting named: physical, traditional,…
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Internet Daters are Not Losers (and 9 Other Research-Based Tips About Online Dating)
Read more: Internet Daters are Not Losers (and 9 Other Research-Based Tips About Online Dating)PsyBlog scans the research and comes up with 10 Psychological Insights About Online Dating. Number one: Internet daters are not losers: Contrary to the stereotype, there’s little evidence that internet dating is the last resort of social misfits or weirdos. In fact, quite the reverse. Internet daters are more likely to be sociable, have high self-esteem and…
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Debt v. Romance
Read more: Debt v. RomanceNYT: How Debt Can Destroy a Budding Relationship. Nobody likes unpleasant surprises, but when Allison Brooke Eastman’s fiancé found out four months ago just how high her student loan debt was, he had a particularly strong reaction: he broke off the engagement within three days…
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Modern Love
Read more: Modern LoveDiane Johnson looks dating and marriage in a NYRB review. It used to be that on a date, the boy would pay for a Pepsi and the movie; that was it. Lori Gottlieb, in Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough, estimates the cost to today’s woman of four months of dating, counting…