When I was single, one of the most irritating things to deal with was the inane question “Why are you still single?”. Now that I’m in a relationship, people have switched to the even more irritating “Why aren’t you married yet?”. I’m sure when I do get married, people will find something else to bug [...]

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Cohabitation in any relationship signifies a major jump in commitment. When two people decide to live together, it is obvious that the relationship is strengthening and moving forward. Living together can sound like a fun and practical choice but no matter how you think of it, combining two people’s lives can be a challenge. Even [...]

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I was emailed recently by a reader who wanted to know if she should confront The Other Woman after discovering that her husband had been cheating.
“NML, I feel like my entire life has been shattered. I want to speak to this woman. I want to know why she thinks it’s OK to screw someone else’s [...]

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I have been with my boyfriend for nearly a year and we have been living together for 8 months. He has a close friend who is a women, and she is divorcing her husband who beat and raped her for 5 years. The problem is my boyfriend stays round her house on a Friday night [...]

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My mother got married when she turned 25. My grandmother when she was 20. However, here I am, way past my mom’s age and not even thinking about marriage. Why is it that couples and singles of our generation are foregoing marriage for cohabitation and long term relationships?
The institution of marriage was always one that [...]

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Over on Dating Dames they’ve been discussing What Men Want Most which according to Dr Klayne Rasmussen a family and marriage therapist of Your Relationship Success is pretty much all about serving his egotistical needs. Now I have said it several times and I’ll say it again - the male body is made up of [...]

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Lovely flight attendant: “Excuse me. I don’t mean to be nosy, really.” Me: “Haha, you’re not. We don’t mind.” Her: “I was listening to you talk about not wanting to get married and wondering about living together, and I just felt like I had to say something to you. I was in the same situation. [...]

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In this day and age, it’s getting easier and easier to actually go through life not knowing how to cook. Our mothers were installed in the kitchen at an early age and can whip up meals that leave our senses reeling and have the magic touch with every dish in the kitchen.
Cooking is an essential [...]

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In Kindergarten I learned that there was no Santa. Very shortly thereafter I acknowledged the non-existence of the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy. Surprisingly enough, it took 23 years for me to realise the myth that is Monogamy.
My human sexuality teacher said it best when she declared one day that monogamy was a nice [...]

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A NYC based magazine ‘The New Monogamy’ is promoting the premise that marriages are becoming more and more open and that agreed upon cheating will stop the marriage from flatlining and either party
straying any further.

“In this view, as long as each spouse “sluts around” (their words, not ours) within the boundaries deemed acceptable by [...]

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