Friday, February 28, 2014

How to Pick Your Life Partner

Wait But Why Become a fan
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To a frustrated single person, life can often feel like this:
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The Rap Ode To Muffin Tops You Didn't Know You Needed


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Thoughts From the 'Ugly Friend'

Literally, Darling Become a fan 
Online magazine for twenty-something women

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From the minute we are born, we are shoved full of contradicting notions that our bodies are both beautiful and not good enough. We see the images of gorgeous models and wonder why we are not more like them, but then hear campaigns telling us that this is all Photoshopped nonsense and that "real women" are beautiful.
I find that these "think pieces" about real beauty and body image are great for a confidence booster, but they carry very little weight in the real world. I've found that there is something that works for me and carries me through because it is the only, sometimes heart-crushing, reality I have. I have accepted the fact that I am the ugly friend.

I Didn't Have Sex for a Year, and I'm Still Married

Natalie Singer-Velush Become a fan 
Seattle mom of two and Managing Editor, ParentMap Magazine

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Married parents have been under attack lately, from all angles. This month, we've heard that longtime married couples in the kind of egalitarian and committed partnerships that the women of my generation -- raised under the '80s roof of divorce and disappointment -- strived for don't have sex as often as, well, anyone else. If we'remarried with kids, we might as well just forget romance: Maybe we brush each other's dishpan hands as we complaisantly pass the peas from freezer to microwave or fold endless, laundered sock pairs into balls, or once in a blue moon slam together to breed. But that's it.
We're miserable parents, too, it seems, all joy and no fun (though we wouldn't change it for a million childless, 20-something, tipsy, heart-racing, very-definition-of-freedom nights).