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3.08.10

How Married Are You?

Laura Sessions Stepp interviews Hannah Seligson, author of A Little Bit Married: How to Know When It's Time to Walk Down the Aisle or Out the Door. [10 min 2 sec]

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March 2nd 2010

What We Can Learn from this Year’s Olympians

- Laura Sessions Stepp

Ashleigh McIvor, Canada's Olympic ski queen, told a reporter last week that the ski cross techniques that won her a gold medal were learned by "chasing the boys down the hills" of her native Whistler and Cypress Mountains.

Last week, the Canadian boys were chasing her and other amazing female Canadians who competed in the 21st Olympic winter games. Canada fielded 43 women and 206 men this year. For the second winter Olympics in a row, the women out-medaled the men.

Canadians are crowing this week about their men’s gold-medal hockey victory over the Americans on Sunday. But for the preceding two weeks, their female athletes were the ones dominating the Canadian media.

(What does this have to do with intimacy? Plenty. Keep reading.)

February 16th 2010

Fantasy Match-Up: Delilah Rene and Hannah Seligson

- Laura Sessions Stepp

I’d pay good money to see Delilah Rene, 50, and Hannah Seligson, 25, sit down over a bottle of Bordeaux and talk about love. Here’s why:

Delilah, whose nightly radio show by the same name is heard by 8 million listeners a week, calls herself the “Queen of Sappy Love Songs.” Her world, said Ellen McCarthy in last week’s Washington Post, is “a schmaltzy, airbrushed place where love is all that matters….”

2.07.10

Relationship Obituaries

Looking for closure after a break up? Write an obituary…

For Valentine’s Day, we decided to explore what happens when Cupid abandons us. Laura Stepp talks to author Kathleen Horan about her book, Relationship Obits: The Final Resting Place for Love Gone Wrong, born of a website to help people mourn dead relationships and move on. [12 min 40 sec]

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January 19th 2010

Forms of Love: Friends, Family, Flames

- Laura Sessions Stepp

With Valentine’s Day less than a month away, it’s a good time to think about love. Not falling in love; that’s easy. Our body’s chemistry takes care of that.

No, it’s the what-comes-after-the-goopy-cards that I want to talk about: the loving. That’s what scares us. It consumes time, drains our emotions, and makes us vulnerable to hurt and loss. So why do we get sucked in, again and again? Because we are creatures who attach. Two recent TV documentaries expand on this.

January 14th 2010

In 2010, Let’s Just Not Be Friends

- Katy Otto

Dear XXX,

I know it makes you comfortable to think about how close it is possible for us to be one day. Maybe you like the idea of the alchemy: from intense love to the province of the platonic. You have done it in the past; everyone you know seems to be able to do it. Take it down a notch, be okay with it, be just friends.

But I don't care if it makes other people comfortable. I have finally gotten to a point in life where I learning how to make me comfortable, even at the cost of the comfort of others, at the cost of your comfort.

1.12.10

Relationship Resolutions--Noble and Not-So-Noble--for 2010

Happy New Year! In this podcast we hear from women and men from San Francisco to New York City, with stops in the Midwest along the way. See what changes people are planning for 2010 and share your relationship resolution in the comments! [11 min 53 sec]

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January 5th 2010

When does age become just a number?

- Ms. Veralyn

Ms. Veralyn takes a look at the question, "How old is too old?"

10.05.09

Addicted to Love: An Interview With Helen Fisher

Social anthropologist Helen Fisher discusses evidence she has found that the powerful feelings associated with romantic love are chemical and come from the same part of your brain as addictions. [13 min 31 sec]

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