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Dating Survey Guy Speaks, Defends Himself Against Creepiness

Last week, the dating "mistake" that had the Internet cluck-clucking in joyful schadenfreude was the "creepy" survey sent by a "24-year-old finance guy," known as Mike, to one of his dates. Mike has gotten in touch to share his side of the story.

By Jen Doll

May 16, 2012

Everything We Do While Dating Is Creepy and Potentially Viral

We love to talk about relationships, good and bad, and probably always will. Most especially, we love it when we think people are doing them wrong.

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By Jen Doll

May 16, 2012

Do Pregnancy Films Make Good Date Movies?

What to Expect When You're Expecting, a movie with an ensemble cast of celebrities each depicting different versions of mommy-and-daddyhood, comes out in theaters Friday. So, this is a date movie, right?

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By Jen Doll

May 14, 2012

Wannabe Grandparents Are Freezing Their Kids' Eggs

According to The New York Times, the latest baby trend appears to be wanna-be grandparents paying to freeze their daughters' eggs so that they can, down the road, indeed become grandparents. Should we be concerned?

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By Richard Lawson and Jen Doll

May 2, 2012

Lies Hollywood Told Us: Love and Romance Edition

Love is hard. Romantic movies make it harder.

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By Jen Doll

Apr 23, 2012

Andrea Peyser Does Not Approve of This 'Online Dating'

Poor misguided "dating spreadsheet guy" of last week has another moment in the New York Post, this time from Andrea Peyser, our new favorite dating columnist, who's not only full of advice but also so effervescently positive.

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By Jen Doll

Apr 20, 2012

Woman Rated Highly on Dating Spreadsheet Defends Spreadsheet Dating

Thursday we defended our hapless romantic spreadsheet user—a man who used an Excel document to "keep track of" dates he met on Match.com. Now, we hear from an actual human woman who interacted with him online.

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By Jen Doll

Apr 19, 2012

In Defense of the Dating Spreadsheet

"Dating spreadsheet guy" is the romantic anti-hero, someone who hopes to manipulate love (in Excel!), someone who needs to "keep track" of dates as if they were possessions, someone who judges on paper.

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By Jen Doll

Apr 18, 2012

Is Citibank Judging You for Being Single?

Just because more people are living alone by choice doesn't mean they don't have their share of problems. Add to that possible trouble: Bank accounts. In particular, those privacy questions you're supposed to answer in order to access your account.

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By Jen Doll

Apr 12, 2012

Living Alone Really Is the New Shacking Up for Some Couples

Living alone just keeps getting more popular, with even committed couples deciding to live by themselves—albeit maybe in houses right next door to each other. We explore the phenomenon.

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By Jen Doll

Apr 5, 2012

The Urban Myth of the City Girl and the Country Cowboy

A quarter of the cover of The New York Post is devoted to the kind of story that pops up regularly as a warning screed, or perhaps a reminder, to the women of New York.

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By Jen Doll

Mar 13, 2012

The Business of Revamping Your Online Dating Profile

Even though so many people are meeting each other and forming relationships online that your grandma can't even really look at you funny for it (maybe she's doing it herself), a lot of us are doing it wrong. That's where Christine Hooker, professional online dating consultant, comes in.

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By Rebecca Greenfield

Mar 6, 2012

Today in Research

The Weather on Venus; Women like Men to Feel Their Pain

Discovered: Venus has bad weather, women like men to feel their pain, how much water the Earth has lost, cancerless super mice, and how to change your DNA.

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By Jen Doll

Mar 2, 2012

Is America Heading Toward a Post-Marriage Society?

With fewer adults deciding to marry than ever in American history, it's not hard to wonder what a post-marriage society would look like—and are we on our way there already?

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By Jen Doll

Feb 29, 2012

Sadie Hawkins Day, Mangagement Rings, and Sexism

Happy Leap Day. Today is a day that comes around only once every four years, and traditionally, because it was so shocking to imagine a woman ever proposing to a man, today would have been the day for that sort of funny business.

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By Jen Doll

Feb 28, 2012

Condoms Get in on the Social Media Check-in Trend

What's missing in your birth control technique? Is it, maybe, a location-based app?

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By Jen Doll

Feb 24, 2012

Women Are Still Being Judged for Not Taking Their Husbands' Last Names

Right now in the most of the developed world, it could be argued, women are considered about as "equal" to men as they have ever been. Yet there are deep, abiding problems that we're still working through.

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By Jen Doll

Feb 20, 2012

Is Marriage Only for the Rich and Well-Educated?

We're starting to dance around a reality in which marriage is no longer for everyone. What's important is the question of why that's the case, and what happens next.

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By Jen Doll

Feb 20, 2012

Can Your iPhone Flirt for You? An App Road Test

Is flirting the old-fashioned way for chumps? We enlisted help from Beth Griffenhagen, author of Haiku for the Single Girl, to test out a few of the new flirting apps on her recent evenings about town. Here's what she found.

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By Jen Doll

Feb 14, 2012

How to Spot a Lie in an Online Dating Profile

Science knows how to identify a liar (big hint: someone who keeps harping on his or her own honesty). So it makes sense, in our online-dating-filled modern lifestyle, that science would also figure out how to identify an online dater who is not being completely above board.

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By Richard Lawson and Jen Doll

Feb 14, 2012