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Closing the lines of communication

Mar 12, 2010 7:04am

A game of telephone on March 16, 1998… Dear Breakup Girl, About a year ago, an old male friend moved back to town. We quickly became best friends. Our feelings toward each other changed and we began dating, then he lost his job. The dating stopped. We remained close friends until we...

Husbands and husbands

Mar 11, 2010 1:18am

One little boy works it all out....

Dream house, indeed!

Mar 10, 2010 6:48am

Mad! Men! Barbies! Collect all four! Totally buying a Joan (and then padding her dress).* While we’re on the subject, what do we think of the new Code Monkey Barbie? Either way, this is a really interesting and thorough take. (H/T Joy Engel.) * Or, put another way by a later tipster: “You know...

I’m on a horse.

Mar 9, 2010 11:07am

Via Broadsheet: Can you smell the aroma of manufactured manliness? Because there is an epic, and pungent, battle underway in the men’s personal care aisle. [Yesterday], Advertising Age declare[d] that we are seeing “the biggest array of product launches for men in nearly a decade and maybe ever.” The major competitors...

This week at Happen: Will he ever divorce?

Mar 8, 2010 6:12am

MSN.com, Match.com, HappenMagazine.com: they’re in a healthy and satisfying 3-way relationship. Meaning that you can find MSN/Match.com’s “Ask Lynn” columns –penned by BG’s alter ego — over at Happen now as well. This week Lynn helps Edgy in Erie, a gal living with, and raising her kids with, a guy who...

Study: Living in sin not so bad after all

Mar 5, 2010 10:59am

Tracy Clark-Flory of Salon.com’s Broadsheet calls out the New York Times for misrepresenting statistics in the title of their article, “Living Together First Doesn’t Make Marriage Last, Study Finds.” Flory examines the statistics of said study and looks to other sources to sum up with her title “Living in...

Wedded Diss

Mar 5, 2010 5:44am

Ending things improperly on March 16, 1998… Dear Breakup Girl, I want to end my marriage, but I don’t know how to tell him. Is it fair to write him a letter or should I tell him in person? – Kat Dear Kat, Rule of thumb: unseal the deal the same way that you sealed...

Typing test

Mar 4, 2010 2:52am

Back in high school, my sister and I came up with a flawless policy: the only guys worth dating were either Jewish or Italian. It was some ill-informed, possibly offensive stereotyping whose underlying basis was a premium on swarthy looks and/or in-your-face intellectualism. Of course, this schoolgirl theorizing fell apart in...

Soccer guys are so sensitive (and need BG bad)

Mar 3, 2010 3:43am

Okay. While we were all watching Apollo Ohno and rooting for the Canucks (depending), strange things have been going on in England. Maybe you’re heard of soccer, which those crazy kids call “football?” And the World Cup, which happens this summer in South Africa? Very big deal. VERY big deal....

Good (enough) lovin’: Q&A with embattled author Lori Gottlieb

Mar 2, 2010 4:32am

Lori Gottlieb’s Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough–which started life as an article that got a whole lot more people to read The Atlantic–has been getting heated attention since its publication in early February. The book has garnered high praise from many relationship experts, book critics,...