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For middle-age moms like me, divorce can be the best aphrodisiac

We were sitting on the Little League bench ostensibly to watch our 11-year-olds play, but instead we were doing what we moms typically did – grumble about parenting, aging, work, menopause a...

DATE: Jan 6, 2016 | CATEGORY: Family

How should a gay woman respond to a gift donation made to an anti-LGBT organization

Q: My brother (and sister-in-law) made a donation to a religious organization in honor of my wife and me (a married lesbian couple). The gesture was very kind, and the charity does some good...

DATE: Jan 6, 2016 | CATEGORY: Family

My Tinder date with 'Pharma bro' Martin Shkreli

This fall, I went on a date with Martin Shkreli, the 32-year-old “Pharma bro” recently arrested on charges of securities fraud, and widely known as the most hated man in America. I hate to d...

DATE: Jan 6, 2016 | CATEGORY: Family

It’s high season for online dating – plot your moves carefully

If dating is a game, online dating is a game of strategy. Message someone “hey,” and you’ll probably be ignored. Send the wrong emoji – or apparently any at all if you’re male – and you’re a...

DATE: Jan 4, 2016 | CATEGORY: Family

How to get married without losing friends or alienating people

So, you got engaged over the holidays? Congrats! It’s so exciting for you and all the other newly minted fiancées who can’t stop staring at their ring fingers. (Or their partners sighing ove...

DATE: Jan 4, 2016 | CATEGORY: Family

Founder of White People Meet: Don't call me racist, 'I dated a black woman once'

Sam Russell suspected his dating startup, Where White People Meet, would ruffle a few Internet feathers. It’s why the site’s “About” page carefully avoids mention of Russell or his wife, Tam...

DATE: Jan 4, 2016 | CATEGORY: Family

My wife is mad I threw her a surprise party

Q. My wife is angry that I threw a surprise party for a major promotion she got at work. All I did was invite five couples to celebrate at a restaurant with us. It is true she does not gener...

DATE: Dec 30, 2015 | CATEGORY: Family

May the Lord bless you ... unless you’re single

When my friend asked me to do a reading at her wedding, I was honored but mostly relieved. Relieved because it wasn’t that typical Corinthians nonsense I’d heard at nearly every church weddi...

DATE: Dec 30, 2015 | CATEGORY: Family

Three months without dating apps: It was harder than I expected

When my friend Abby dared me in September to delete my dating apps for the rest of the year, I was eager to let them go. At the time, I was feeling bored and overwhelmed with dati...

DATE: Dec 30, 2015 | CATEGORY: Family

How I broke free from New Year's Eve expectations

On a New Year’s Eve many years ago, I watched an early evening snowstorm from the one window of my 200-square-foot Manhattan apartment. Months earlier, I had broken up with a boyf...

DATE: Dec 28, 2015 | CATEGORY: Family

Legendary grandmother who committed life to hugging soldiers passes away

She was known simply as the “hug lady” and for a generation of soldiers deployed from Fort Hood to Iraq and Afghanistan, the diminutive grandmother was a steadying presence over the past 12 ...

DATE: Dec 26, 2015 | CATEGORY: Family

Why my ex-boyfriend and I still share a Netflix account

CLEVELAND - My ex-boyfriend and I broke up almost exactly two years ago, and we’ve spoken only a handful of times since. But I can tell you exactly what he’s watching on Netflix. (“Friday Ni...

DATE: Dec 25, 2015 | CATEGORY: Family

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