Even in faux relationships, honesty counts
Categories: TNGG Weekly Columns
We’re ok with sharing our bodies, fornidating and feigning friendships, but we will never openly admit that maybe we want to hold hands and have inside jokes as well.
Fornidating: Not as Good as the Fantasy
Categories: TNGG Weekly Columns
Having a months-long casual sex partner can be fun, but as soon as reality sets in, it’s time to reevaluate.
Until You Sober Up: The One-Night Stand From The Male Perspective
Categories: Sex Week
The issue is that sex quickly outruns the favorites for the Relationship Cup, like emotional connection (2:1) and chemistry (2:3). The footrace in the mind begins to become lopsided as the alcohol and sex culture kick in. And after all of the fancy terminology and logic we can apply for a male, he will eventually forget about his pursuits of expressive connection, of chemistry and perhaps emotion itself. Once men pass a certain threshold of drinking, and have the expectation that attractive women will be in the midst, your high-school sweetheart stories, college lover epics and wistful tales of “the one that got away” go out the window. The race is over.
One Ring to Rule Them All: My Chastity Ring
Categories: Sex Week
Waiting until marriage is nice. But love is strong and healthy and being in a devoted relationship doesn’t equate to living in sin.
Craving Romance? Korean dramas are steamier than you might think
Categories: Pop Culture
A Valentine’s Day rundown of the top five most romantic moments in the most melodramatic genre: Korean dramas.
Millennial + Boomer = Love?
Categories: Lifestyle
The May-December romance concept is nothing new, but it’s new for us. Age is just a number, after all, whether you’re two days or twenty years apart.
Pinch pennies, not romance, in the recession
Categories: Lifestyle
A 23-year-old dude took me to a soup kitchen because he “… didn’t want to spend a lot of money.” Or any money at all, apparently. Thirty-five percent of us have asked for money from family members and 50 percent of us admit to being stressed out about our cash flow. Is our libido for life and romance really and truly deceased? How do we fix it?
The Love/Hate of Sibling Rivalry
Categories: Family Week
“If I had known she was going to stay, I wouldn’t have said it was alright.” My parents allege that those were the first words out of my mouth when my sister came home from the hospital on my second birthday. And it went downhill from there.
Zen and the art of nannying
Categories: Family Week
I am more than just a nanny. I am also the household manager. The to-do list keeper. The grocery shopper. But more importantly, I am also an honorary member of the family I work for.
Modern Marriage: Not your average affair
Categories: Family Week
The modern model relationship isn’t about supporting an abolition of marriage, but about the fact that we should be able to choose when we decide to settle down and what the terms will be, whether it be recognized by the court or not.
