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A Teen Boy's Guide to Love, Via New Moon
 A Teen Boy's Guide 
 to Love, Via New Moon 
JUST DON'T BITE HER
Nov 26, 2009 11:24 AM CST

A Teen Boy's Guide to Love, Via New Moon

Say weird stuff, have seizures when you kiss, appear dead, etc.

(Newser) - When it came to being cool and hitting it off with girls, Mick LaSalle had it hard as a teen—he had to figure out what width belt to wear and such without the benefit of Twilight as a primer. Herewith, some "empirical data" helpful to 15-year-old boys he...

Couples Who Share Chores Have More Sex
 Couples Who 
 Share Chores 
 Have More Sex 
DUSTING=Intimacy?
Oct 21, 2009 1:42 PM CDT

Couples Who Share Chores Have More Sex

Housework amps up your spouse, but why?

(Newser) - More housework equals more sex, a new study shows, though watchers are split on why that is. Two answers quickly spring up: For one, active folks tend to pour their energy into all pursuits. “This group of go-getters seem to make sex a priority,” a researchers tells the...

Men More Likely to Abandon Sick Partners

Seven times as many women stay when serious illness strikes

(Newser) - Relationships fail seven times more often when illness strikes the female partner than when it strikes the man. Researchers don't know why, but theories abound: “There is an immediate shift in a relationship when an illness is diagnosed,” a counselor tells the Times of London. Gender roles change...

Look Up Exes on Facebook at Your Own Peril
Look Up Exes on Facebook
at Your Own Peril 
OPINION
Oct 6, 2009 10:17 AM CDT

Look Up Exes on Facebook at Your Own Peril

He's probably gay, she probably hates you, and it could ruin your relationship

(Newser) - Back in the halcyon pre-Facebook days, Elizabeth Bernstein writes, you didn't just pick up the phone and ring up an old flame. “If you went looking for a former partner, you knew you were looking for trouble.” So why it should be any different on Facebook? A survey...

Justin, Jessica Are Splits —Maybe

(Newser) - The gossip sites can't decide: Are Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel on or off? A friend tells US Weekly that Timberlake has told friends “it’s over”—after dumping Biel over the phone a month ago. But a different source tells People "they're not breaking up. Any...

Job Market Splitting Up Couples
 Job Market Splitting Up Couples 
Sep 22, 2009 5:18 AM CDT

Job Market Splitting Up Couples

Nearly 1 in 5 Americans relocates for new position

(Newser) - With the job market failing to recover along with the larger economy, two-career couples are facing tough choices and increasingly being forced into long-distance relationships. A recent survey has found that 18.2% of Americans who took new jobs in the second quarter also relocated, up from 11.4% a...

Fibs Are Good for Marriage
 Fibs Are Good for Marriage 
OPINION
Aug 26, 2009 6:00 PM CDT

Fibs Are Good for Marriage

(Newser) - Raina Kelley is not happy with this "new spate of advice talking about how lying is bad for a relationship," she writes in Newsweek. "That is my line in the sand. Marriages cannot exist without dishonesty." Now, she doesn't mean the big stuff, like adultery. She's...

Zellweger, Cooper Dating
 Zellweger, Cooper Dating 
Aug 12, 2009 5:15 PM CDT

Zellweger, Cooper Dating

Couple gets cozy during Spain vacation

(Newser) - Renee Zellweger and Bradley Cooper are dating, the New York Daily News reports. The pair have been close since filming the upcoming Case 39 together. But the couple’s relationship appears to have taken off with a weekend trip to Barcelona, where they were spotted arm in arm at their...

Pain + Sacrifice = Marital Bliss
 Pain + Sacrifice 
 = Marital Bliss 

glossies
Aug 8, 2009 4:35 PM CDT

Pain + Sacrifice = Marital Bliss

Adversity makes couples' bond stronger, experts say

(Newser) - Marital bliss? Toss it out the window, and get down to pain and anguish ASAP, experts say. While many studies find that stress can exacerbate a marriage—turning a short-tempered husband into an abusive one, for example—some experts say adversity is the key to marital success. "It’s...

Jen: I'm OK Being 'Lonely Girl'
 Jen: I'm 
 OK Being 
 'Lonely Girl' 
GLOSSIES
Aug 4, 2009 1:35 PM CDT

Jen: I'm OK Being 'Lonely Girl'

Actress talks family, love with Elle

(Newser) - Jennifer Aniston refuses to “ignore the pink elephant in the living room,” she tells Elle. “If I’m the emblem for ‘this is what it looks like to be the lonely girl getting on with her life,’ so be it. I can make fun of...

Fickle Voters Are Change Obama Can Believe In

We're ready to change politics, religion, relationships at the drop of a hat

(Newser) - Whether it’s religion, relationships, or politics, Americans are getting more fickle, experts say. Seniors citizens are more open to divorce, college students are more open to changing schools, and more than 40% of Americans will switch religions, notes one pollster. All this could be bad news for President Obama,...

Hey, Guys, Keep iPhone Out of the Bedroom

(Newser) - Her boyfriend’s obsession with his iPhone drove Lisa Katayama to lay down some ground rules, she writes for Boing Boing. “Rule #1: It’s not romantic to have an iPhone in the bedroom.” She elaborates: “Brian once said that every time he goes online, he feels...

Online Dating's Problem: Too Many Matches, Not Too Few

(Newser) - Online dating sites are so packed with possible matches that they cause “cognitive overload” in seekers, leading to unconsidered choices, the MIT Technology Review reports. The lovelorn may say they want a wider variety of candidates, but they spend less time evaluating them, new research shows. “More search...

Marriage Makes You Fat: Study
 Marriage Makes You Fat: Study 
Jun 29, 2009 1:41 PM CDT

Marriage Makes You Fat: Study

(Newser) - As couples grow more committed to each other, their waistlines often grow as well, Time reports. During their first few years of matrimony, couples are twice as likely to become obese as their dating peers, according to a new study being published next month. If they merely move in with...

Broke Up Recently? Museum Wants the Remnants

Exhibit features everything from photos to prosthetics

(Newser) - Not sure what to do with all those old love letters from your ex? Burning them seems too risky; keeping them, too sentimental. Why not put them on permanent display? The Museum of Broken Relationships allows you to do just that, BlackBook reports. Started as an art project in Croatia,...

Why Marriage Is Obsolete (at Least for Women)

Institution is obsolete—let's fix this 'bum deal'

(Newser) - Marriage is fraught with “emotional pain, humiliation, and logistical difficulty.” And for women—expected to work, parent, tend to the house, and on top of all that, keep the romance alive—it’s a “bum deal,” writes Sandra Tsing Loh, herself ending a 20-year union, in...

Brad, Angie Live in Separate Houses: Tab

(Newser) - Rumored-to-be-in-trouble power couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are living in separate houses on the sprawling Long Island estate where they're currently staying, reports the Daily Mail. The newspaper claims to have seen photographic proof that the two have very separate corners in the 24-acre spread where they've set up...

Get Your Priorities in Order: Sex, Then Sleep

Don't let tiredness ruin your love life

(Newser) - Research reveals that more than three-quarters of Britons want sleep more than sex, which is understandable, writes Jackie Clune in the Daily Mail. In most people's busy lives, “sex just seems like another thing on the long list of Things To Do.” But it’s important for couples...

Long-Distance Love Light Shines in New Gizmo

(Newser) - Tired of texting your long-distance lover to say how much you care? A Scottish research lab hopes to connect couples with something a bit more poetic: "painted" light. Users of Mutsugoto wear touch-activated rings tracked by motion-sensing cameras mounted above their beds; caress your own arm and a matching...

From Romantic Lemons, Literary Lemonade
From Romantic Lemons, Literary Lemonade
book review
Apr 9, 2009 10:30 AM CDT

From Romantic Lemons, Literary Lemonade

It's fizzy, too—and comes complete with recipes and regrets

(Newser) - Recipes for "Morning After Pumpkin Bread" and "Ineffectual Eggplant Parmigiana" should clue readers in that Giulia Melucci's I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti is no how-to on gaining a man's heart through his stomach, Joyce Wadler writes for the New York Times. Melucci—"a...

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