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love

June 16th 2010

Closing Off to Opening Up: One Girl's Journey

- Katy Otto

Everybody's sick for something that they can find fascinating--everyone but you and even you aren't feeling well.

June 4th 2010

Outsourcing Online Dating: Are We Really Okay With This?

- Laura Sessions Stepp

This piece is cross-posted from The Huffington Post.

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Dear God. Single men (and a few women) are now paying strangers to find suitable dates for them online. According to a recent article in The Washington Post, they don't have the time -- or the will -- to do it themselves.

So add relationships to the list of things that can be outsourced, along with cleaning your condo, detailing your car and buying and delivering your groceries.

April 16th 2010

On Boundaries: Be Like an Amoeba

- Katy Otto

Someone recently made a drawing for me of what she considered to be the ideal boundary structure a person can have. It was shaped like an amoeba. She said that amoebas have the ability to change shape and proximity at will, and in relation to their environments. She imparted this notion on to me, and drew a parallel with interpersonal relationships. “Look at it as you would having amoeba-like boundaries around your heart,” she told me. “That way, you are always protected but not at the expense of ever having anyone come close to you.”

April 15th 2010

Is interracial dating an issue in this generation?

- Ms. Veralyn

Inspired by a recent controversy concerning Reggie Bush on the cover of Essence Magazine, Ms. Veralyn decided to take on the topic of interracial dating -- is it still an issue?

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.