I may be closer to my ex-husband now that we are getting divorced
Last week, I had a drink with a good friend. We chatted about our lives, we laughed about funny times in our past, we made plans to get together again soon. Just like good friends do. But this...
View ArticleYour friends might be right about your bad relationship
We have all seen this in our own lives: You meet somebody new, but your friends see red flags. Why do we never seem to heed the advice of our friends? It's no different on reality television. The twins...
View ArticleSit back, relax and let your gut feeling guide your love life
Two weeks after we started dating, Scott told me he loved me. He was a die-hard surfer, up at dawn to catch the first wave before heading into the city to his slick day job as a wine buyer for an...
View Article6 sex tips that might actually help you conceive a boy
Think of using a certain position to determine the sex of your baby less like playing God and more like rolling the dice to see if the odds fall in your favor. While there has yet to be a concrete...
View ArticleMy adventures in kink made me love my body the way it is
When I started getting actively into kink play, I expected a lot of things: new bruises, surprising emotions, an inability to discuss my weekends truthfully at work. I wasn’t expecting to find...
View ArticleYou're in the Dark Ages if you still think a guy should pay for dinner
It's a very modern dating dilemma — who should pay for dinner? The debate has been reignited by two contestants on Channel 4 show First Dates, after the man (Brian) asked the woman (Mary) to contribute...
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Weekly love horoscopes: Sept. 5 – Sept. 11
Image: SheKnows Jupiter, the planet of good fortune and higher purpose, enters that part of your solar horoscope that pertains to relationships. What this means is that you could get swept off your...
View ArticleI decided to divorce my husband on vacation in Italy
I can remember it like it was yesterday. I was lying by the pool at our Tuscan villa. It was blissfully hot. I had a book in my hand and a glass of chilled Italian wine by my side. I should have been...
View ArticleIf you care how many people I've slept with, we're doomed
So the optimum "magic number" of previous sexual partners has been revealed in a new study. If you've been on tenterhooks waiting for this… the wait is over. It's 12. More: The best sex toys for...
View ArticleSorry, but not having kids as soon as we're married doesn't make us selfish
I realized very quickly that when you get married, people really want you to have babies. Conversations would get awkward when I'd tell people that I didn't know if I wanted children anytime in the...
View ArticleWhy getting an engagement ring fills me with total dread
I recently got engaged to the love of my life on vacation in the desert. We were joking about what the most fun, ridiculous wedding would look like ("There could be an X-Files theme!" "A wedding in a...
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7 sex toys that are so much better than The Rabbit
There's something so great about being a modern woman in the new millennium. Yes, feminism is becoming more mainstream, which means that we can only hope for that glass ceiling to be busted soon and...
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6 first-time anal sex positions that make the back door way less scary
For so many of us who consider ourselves sexually forward, anal is the final frontier. There's a lot of confusion about this back door sex act — namely, is it going to hurt and how much? Is it going to...
View ArticleIf you thought your dating life was weird, I once ran over my date’s...
I made a cosmic bargain the year I turned 30. Awash in wedding invitations and aware of my ever-dwindling pool of single pals, I vowed to get serious about the business of dating. I would accept dates...
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This glowing pillow might just save your long-distance relationship
Everybody's done it at least once, which means we're most definitely talking to you. There's been extensive scrutiny of the long-distance relationship that we go into bright-eyed and full of optimism,...
View ArticleI'm happy to celebrate with my friends when they get divorced
Welcome to the Divorce Club, where half the population knows what you've been through. Everything about divorce is difficult and if that's not enough, there still exists an unspoken tarnished image, an...
View ArticleWhy I tell my friends not to be afraid of divorce
I’ve never thought of myself as a trailblazer for anything (really, I consider myself a late bloomer in many aspects) but lately my small group of friends has me feeling like an expert on divorce and...
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Weekly love horoscopes: Sept. 12 – Sept. 18
Image: SheKnows There are times when you feel like getting all dressed up and sitting down to a fancy five-course meal and times when nothing but a greasy burger and a fistful of fries will do. Well,...
View Article25 extra-honest anal sex tips from someone who loves it
There's a common misconception that heterosexual anal sex is only for the dudes. On almost every TV show where some couple decides to "do the dirty," a lot of convincing (and a lot of lube) is required...
View Article6 unexpected health benefits of sperm — yes, you read that right
Sperm may not be the first thing you want to talk about on a girls' night out or at family dinner, but there's science surrounding the baby batter that most of us have encountered a time or two before....
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