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How To Fall In Love With The Wrong Person
Be humiliated by them. Be out one night and get asked by a mutual acquaintance how long you have been together, only to be pre-empted by your lover saying, “Oh,…
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Is A Relationship Supposed To Be Hard Work?
We were always at each other’s throats, able to magically tear each other apart and push each other’s buttons epically.
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If You Love Someone, Never Touch Them
You will evoke no negative, complicated feelings in them. They will never need to “get away” from you. You will never frustrate them or stress them out.
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3 Reasons Why Being In A Relationship In Your 20s Is Hard
I know this sounds ridiculous, but like I’m 26 and whenever I meet someone who’s 22 or 23—even if I love them—I’m just like, “Go back into the oven because…
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Tea People Vs Coffee People
Few things are more overrated for you than having an active social life. You see all the people who are constantly going out to these parties and bars and Roman…
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8 Essential Qualities For A Best Friend
If you’re not making a lot of money, if you have a terrible breakup, if you get kicked out of your apartment for unforeseen circumstances — they still treat you…
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Procrastination Is Not Laziness
I want to write down what I’m going to do the next day, and actually do it.
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How To Sleep In A Stranger’s Bed
I wanted to be someone else. “I have no idea what I am doing with my life any more,” I thought, under the weight of a stranger.
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Here’s A Personal Bluetooth Boombox That’ll Fit In Your Pocket
his beautifully designed speaker, while small enough to fit in your pocket, carries enough sonic strength to blast your favorite album loudly at a party with all your friends.
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11 Effective Responses To “Why Are You Single?”
Because I’m on a dating fast except it’s not really a fast as much as I feel like I’m in the desert and I am barely surviving.
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How To Live With Your Ex After You Break Up
In a perfect world of fat bank accounts and a line of friends with magically empty bedrooms, you would be able to retreat to friendlier real estate as soon as…
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19 Reasons I Am Pretending You Don’t Exist
Because I’m afraid you’ll ask me for the sweater back which I have strategically stolen. But you can’t be mad at me for this; it fits perfectly and keeps me…
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What Your Favorite ‘Walking Dead’ Character Says About You
Even the ones who have been killed off…
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15 Signs You Need To Make A Serious Change In Your Life
You spend an inordinate amount of your time freaking out about the things you’re potentially missing out on but are too paralyzed by anxiety to do anything about it.
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5 Reasons We Have To Stop Putting A Ring On It
Before they came up with the genius idea to pound the collective conscience of the American male with the idea that diamonds=romantic devotion, a common engagement gift was a sewing…
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15 Signs The Kiss Meant Something
You can’t stop thinking about their lips. What kind of lip balm were they using? That’s all you’re thinking about. Totally.
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Top 10 Girl Code Rules
Gentlemen, feel free to ignore this one unless of course you want to take a sneak peek into “girl world,” and while I can promise that you may find some…
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In Relationships, Are You The Lover Or The Beloved?
In relationships, there are two roles: the lover and the beloved. You’ve seen this dynamic at play in your relationships, as well as your friends and family. It’s a variation…
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How To Love An Introvert
Do not force them to engage in constant activities which you believe will make them a more “well-rounded” person.
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23 Signs You’re Falling For Your Friend With Benefits
You go out together to a party or bar, ostensibly to wingman for each other, but just end up going home together.
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15 Things Gay Guys Need To Stop Doing
Ask a borderline stranger if they’re a top or a bottom. Rude Girl by Rihanna!
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10 Reasons I’m Okay With Being Mainstream
Sometimes I love seeing the next big hit and actually knowing what the hell is going on during the Oscars. Basically, if I see a preview and it looks good/funny/scary/interesting,…
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Women, Books, And Orgasms
Photographers chase after elusive moments of spontaneous authenticity wherein a person reveals their hidden self in a way previously unseen. They yearn to capture life as it is lived and…
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If You Could Have One Wish, What Would It Be? Win Big From Intel And W Hotels
Watch the film above to see what happens when Eugene takes his laptop’s magic too far, and then post a photo of what you’d wish for if you had a…
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28 Signs You’re A Hipster
You constantly bum cigarettes off of people while out drinking yet claim that you “don’t smoke.”
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The Secret To Connecting With People
At first, you will probably experience some angst at the thought of abandoning what you were going to say. Drop it anyway, and see if your life suffers. (It won’t.)
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11 Original Casting Choices That Will Weird You Out
Chris Farley recorded about 90 percent of Shrek’s dialogue before he died. The producers considered getting a Farley impersonator in to finish the last bits but then Mike Myers was…
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Privileged
I found out Lori carved curse words into her arm with pencils. I knew she was anorexic and bulimic, which, when you’re fourteen, are sort of valorized ailments.
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15 Reasons Your Best Friend Is More Important Than Your Boyfriend
Your best friend has probably been around longer than your boyfriend. They are reliable, loyal and entrenched in your life.
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22 Signs You’re A Typical 20-Something
You can’t afford a shrink so reading your horoscope will have to do.
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This Is What Happens When You Text A Dick Pic
He sent it as a subtle reminder — or a preparedness warning, really. She brings it out, using one hand to cup the top of the phone so the bartender…
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The 50 Most Bizarrely Funny Movie Ratings
20. Donkey Punch (2008) – Rated R for a scene of strong sexual content involving an aberrant violent act, graphic nudity, violence, language and drug use.
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5 Romantic Deal Breakers That Will Make Me Never Date You
New rule: the second I walk into a dude’s room and he has a mattress on the floor (box springs are acceptable) I’m turning around and walking straight back out.
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You Are Important
You apologize for things which are not your fault, even for things which hurt no one. You will bump into a table and mutter that you are sorry to have…
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The Strong Silent Type: The Contradictions Of Being An Introverted Man
“Introvert” is defined in Google’s native definition software as, first, a shy, reticent, and typically self-centered person. Secondly, as a person predominately concerned with their own thoughts and feelings rather…
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How To Not Hate Everyone In Your 20s
I don’t know how or when or why but, all of a sudden, practically every person I met started to annoy me. I could predict what’d they say, all their…
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10 Key Movies For The Y2K Girl
Bridget Jones is my spirit animal. I feel like I get her in ways I’m not supposed to understand movie characters.
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How To Dress Well: 10 Different Takes On Androgyny
I think it is important to offer options for people who want to present themselves physically without gender specifications.
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24 Things That Make You Beautiful
Asking people what they want physically, or romantically, when you are in a relationship. Not being offended by the idea of being told how to love someone better, or understanding…
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Valentine’s Day Pick-Up Lines From Your Favorite Philosophers
Plato: I’m not good in bed, I’m The Good in bed.
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5 Cool Beauty Products Designed To Get You Laid
My new alternative beauty regime proved successful and so I decided to share it with you girls so you too can make the most of your assets!
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I Watched Crazy Illuminati Conspiracy Theory Videos So You Don’t Have To
For those who buy into the theory of the Illumanti’s existence, we are all just minions quietly watching the Super Bowl of life while Queen Bey holds her court.
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How To Love A Crazy Girl
It is a girl who is thirsty for love and affection in a way we generally aim to stifle by labeling it as “needy” and shaming her for being such…
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How To Be Good In Bed
Think about the most disgusting thing you could do to them and then do it. Make out with their armpit. Even if you’re not into armpits, your partner will be…
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24 Lies People Like To Tell Women
There is a direct correlation between the kind of clothes you wear and the amount of respect you deserve.
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12 Things No One Wants To Hear You Talk About
That AMAZING dinner you cooked last night for yourself that I wasn’t invited to and I had to see Instagram photos of while I was sitting at home and starving.
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When They Don’t Love You Back
You can tell when you send them a good-morning text message, or mail them a gift, or take the time to do something for them that you know they’ll barely…
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Inconvenient Truths About Love
No one tells you that you’ll get tired of love. No one tells you that no matter how happy you are in your relationship, occasionally you’ll wish you had only…
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The 10 Most Compelling ‘Unsolved Mysteries’
Robert Stack has heard it all. When he called a Mystery “unbelievable and compelling,” you better listen up.