In his Salon piece, "I was a male spinster," Tim Gihring speaks to a feeling common to men and women of a certain age who haven't yet seen fit to do the proposal-and-ring thing in the time expected of them.
It's the third day of coverage in the New York Post for Larry Greenfield, the multi-millionaire who said that the six matchmaker services to whom he'd paid $65,000 hadn't done a good enough job in the last 12 years and 250 women to set him up with the girl of his dreams.
Someday, we'll all be reading online, you'd imagine, but for now we have an Internet overly populated by youngs, particularly when it comes to blogging and revealing the ins and outs of their dating lives and oft TMI sexual exploits.
It's not all that rare that people in urban places end up living with roommates, for at least a while. But what about having the same three roommates for nearly 20 years?
Over the weekend The New York Times discussed a matter of contemporary lifestyle that pretty much anyone can relate to: Friendship. Specifically, how hard is it to make friends as an adult?
The New York Post is riding the residual waves of shock generated by Mayor Bloomberg's recent challenge to city developers to create "micro-apartments," finding a couple who live in something even smaller.
The Wall Street Journal reveals what you already knew: People in relationships sometimes need time alone to do their own things away from the prying gaze of their significant other.
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?
"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.
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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