Dating & Relationship Tag Archive: Dating Advice
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By Samantha Mucha
Getting cozy with your mate by the fire while watching ABC Family’s ’25 Days of Christmas’ should be number one on your to-do date list this holiday season. Leave the freezing winter weather outside and kick back for an indoor weekend with your sweetheart.
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By Rachel Seliger
The holiday season has finally arrived, and with it comes festive parties (hello, candy cane cocktails!), delicious fare (potato latkes, anyone?) and glee-filled gift-giving (who doesn’t love a white elephant party?). Yet, while giving gifts can fill your heart with warmth and joy as you watch your loved ones tear open those carefully-wrapped presents, it can also bring anxiety as you try to decipher what to give everyone on your list. And it only gets harder when it comes to giving a gift to a new love interest!
Rachel Seliger, Community Manager for JDate.com, the leading online community for Jewish singles, is here to help with advice on what gifts really mean when they’re coming from a significant other. Check out the gifting-pedia below for definitions of what certain gift choices may say about your relationship:
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By Dr. Tranquility — Lydia Belton, PhD, Ct. H.A.
We have all experienced an New Year’s Eve that we look back on with regrets. This is largely due to the fact that we invest too much into trying to make this one day the most perfect of the year — when in truth, it’s really no different than the other 364 days. Here are some tips to help you have an anxiety-free New Year’s Eve this year.
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By Nic Baird
Former America’s Next Top Model judge Janice Dickinson is engaged to Dr. Robert Gerner, UsMagazine.com reports. This is Dickinson’s fourth marriage. Gerner, nicknamed ‘Rocky’, is a prominent psychopharmacology expert. The couple have only been dating for three months, but “it was love at first sight,” Dickinson said. “I intend to make Rocky the happiest man in the world for the rest of his life.”
What are some things to beware of when you think it’s love at first sight?
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By Michelle Rebecca
When you and your partner have a fight, do you blog, Tweet, change your status on Facebook and call all of your friends to let them know about it? If so, you might be endangering your relationship by sharing too much information with others.
As many celebrities (e.g., Kim Kardashian, Tom Cruise, Madonna) have discovered, it’s hard to nurture the tender bud of a healthy romance in the harsh glare of the public eye.
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By Whitney Baker
You may recognize relationship expert Kailen Rosenberg as “the love guru,” “the love whisperer” or, as Oprah Winfrey recently named her, the official “ambassador of love.” With her starring role on Lovetown, USA from the Oprah Winfrey Network/BBC Worldwide, she put her education and experience to the test: Oprah asked Rosenberg and Paul Carrick Brunson to transform Kingsland, Georgia, into a town filled with grace, kindness and open hearts. Of how she helped the community with her dating advice, she says, “What I look for isn’t necessarily what is working, but what is not. I seek out what is broken, the areas that sabotage relationships and love, and help each person to work through their pain and heal, so that they can experience the love and the partner they truly deserve.” …Can’t wait for the rest? Click here for more.
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By Samantha Mucha
The holiday season can be a stressful time with your partner, even though it should be full of joy and holiday cheer. To lessen your to-do list this December, and still have time for a date night, try something different with your sweetheart. Break out the wrapping paper, ribbons, and tape. It’s time to channel your inner Christmas Elf.
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By Nic Baird
Acting couple Bradley Cooper and Zoe Saldana posed for photos at a candle-lit dinner Friday to celebrate the film Silver Linings Playbook, according to People. Stars Robert De Niro, Diane Keaton, Mel Gibson, and Jane Fonda also attended The Weinstein Company’s event at the Chateau Marmont. Cooper and Saldana met on the set of The Worlds in 2011, but split after three months of dating. Since September, they’ve been spotted together giving their romance another shot.
How do you know when to make your relationship public?
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By Jennifer Ross
Seeing triple? 12/12/12 is quickly approaching. This is the last of the popular consecutive date sequences, like 10/10/10 and 11/11/11, to come around for the next 1,000 years — our lifetime! Many people consider it lucky to be alive during these years, and even more people consider it lucky to fall in love and get married on one of these iconic dates. …On the edge of your seat? Click here to continue.
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By Nic Baird
Lindsay Lohan tweeted a photo of The Wanted singer Max George’s sweatshirt directly to him with the caption “missing something?” on Dec. 8, UsMagazine.com reports. The redheaded actress could have taken it when she saw George last week following his band’s concert in Philadelphia. The pair checked into a Boston hotel the next evening. George refers to his new friend as “fun” and “a good girl.” He’s also impressed by her stamina. “She can party nearly as hard as we can.”
How do you know whether you can trust a potential partner?
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By Samantha Mucha
Do you and your sweetheart enjoy looking at art, or even making your own pieces? If so, take date night to the next level this winter by visiting an ice sculpting festival. These events typically happen near ski resorts or state parks. Look online to find out if there is one near you. If you and your significant other want to travel and have the budget, make a weekend out of it. It’s a breathtaking experience that you will want to see at least once in your lifetime.
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By David Wygant
So let’s say that you’re having a very passionate holiday romance. What do you do about Christmas, Hanukah, Kwanzaa, Festivus, etc.? Well, whatever holiday you’re celebrating, I’m a firm believer of wishing everybody a merry Christmas. To me, Christmas is just a time of year. That’s all it is. It doesn’t matter what religion you are–everybody loves Christmas. Who can forget “Santa Claus is Coming to Town”? Who can forget “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” and “Herbie the Dentist”? …Don’t miss the rest! Click here for more.
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By Marni Battista
Elizabeth discovered the secret to having it all: a successful career AND a passionate relationship…
When Elizabeth first came to me, she was a 32-year old divorcee with a super successful, high-powered career. She was gorgeous, intelligent and ready for love — or so she said. She shared with me that she was desperate to fall in love again but honestly didn’t believe she would have chemistry or passion with anyone else. Although she proclaimed her desire for a relationship, my coach intuition told me there was something else going on beneath the surface — something bigger that was keeping her stuck and single. …Don’t miss the rest! Click here for more.
3 In this week’s dating advice video, dating expert and E!’s Famously Single dating coach, Laurel House shares her advice for meeting your partner’s family for the first time, just in time for the holidays. What should you discuss prior to the trip? Where should you stay: in your childhood bedroom or at a nearby hotel? Should you bring a gift? How can you fit in alone time to keep you two on track as a couple? Watch this week’s QuickieChick’s Video Dating Tips and feel prepared to take this next step in your relationship!
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How did you prepare for meeting your significant other’s family? Tell us in the comments below!
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By Alex Karpman
I hate to be Debbie Downer, but at the rate brick and mortar book stores are closing, I don’t know how much longer this awesome date venue will be available. Doesn’t it feel like just yesterday that there was all the uproar about how the mega-book stores were killing off the mom and pop book shops? Remember the movie You’ve Got Mail and how disgusted you were when Joe Fox’s (Tom Hanks) Fox Books forced Kathleen Kelly’s (Meg Ryan) Little Shop Around the Corner out of business? And now Amazon and e-commerce is killing off the mega-book stores. My point is … make sure to head over to your local book store ASAP while you still can to enjoy this awesome date. Check out the video below to see how Olga and I had a blast exploring the travel, architecture, joke and sexuality sections of the bookstore:
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By Samantha Mucha
This holiday season get your shopping done early. Turn this chore into a date and take your sweetheart with you. Doing this tedious task will be exponentially more romantic if you accomplish it together.
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By Marina Sbrochi for GalTime.com
Hey, guys: Do you feel pressured by all the engagement ring ads you see on TV, billboards, radio and magazines? If you don’t cough up two months’ salary are you less than a man? Is someone putting the high pressure on you to get her a ring for the holidays? Are her parents giving you the stink eye every time you come over and don’t ask her father for her hand? Is she dropping hints like, “I really like round diamonds better than emerald cut, you know, in case you were wondering.”
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By Joshua Pompey
There is just something about a bad girl that men can’t seem to resist. We know they are bad for us, but that sure doesn’t stop us from feeling the way that we do, especially when it comes to the celebs who we crush on. Look no further than the overwhelming attention paid to stars like Megan Fox, Angelina Jolie, and Lindsay Lohan during the heights of their popularity. Don’t forget: It wasn’t that long ago when Jolie’s celebrity news was focused on her carrying a vile of blood around her tattoo-laced body and lip locking with her brother on national television!
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By Samantha Mucha
Take advantage of the weekend and escape the chaos of holiday shopping by renting a nice, quiet, cozy, cabin in the middle of the woods. There’s nothing more romantic than cozying up with your sweetheart as you sit alone by the fire in the wilderness?
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By Dr. Tranquility — Lydia Belton, PhD, Ct. H.A.
November is a great time to nail down all of your holiday plans, especially if you’re in a newer relationship, like Eva Mendes and Ryan Gosling. Will you spend these special days together? If so, where? If you have been together for a while, like Evan Rachel Wood and Jamie Bell, will you be with family? If so, which one and on which holiday? These seem like very simple decisions, but it they can make for some serious arguments if not addressed and handled properly. Before you get overwhelmed with too many questions, here are three easy ways to keep your relationship stress-free during the holidays:
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By Piper Weiss for Yahoo! Shine
Thanksgiving is a high school reunion for relatives. Everyone gathers together to reflect on where they’ve been, how far they’ve come, and how much better or worse they’re doing than before. It’s a Butterball of nerves, particularly when you factor in Thanksgiving other high-stakes ingredients: the doomsday traffic, the one crazy relative who shows up and does his/her crazy thing, the underlying family feuds, the love, the all-day drinking, the hunger – the extreme hunger! – for the perpetually “almost-ready” turkey, and those ghosts of holidays past. The result is a minefield of emotions and the reason family baggage has become such a cliché. We’ve all got it, and we bring it to the table on Thanksgiving. All it takes is a seemingly innocuous question to snap that luggage right open and turn dinner into a Eugene O’Neill play. To bypass such family drama, avoid asking the following questions – or answering them. …Don’t miss the rest! Click here for more.
5 In this week’s dating advice video, relationship expert and E!’s Famously Single dating coach, Laurel House tells us why obsessing over how much you hate your body can be damaging to your relationship. The truth is that your guy doesn’t notice if you’ve gained a couple of pounds. But, if you push him on it and keep repeating yourself, he may start viewing you the way you view yourself – and you don’t want that! “We are so hard on ourselves. We are harder on ourselves than anyone else,” says the dating expert. Instead of complaining to your man about your insecurities, she tells us how to handle those body issues and focus on the positive things about ourselves. Remember: Your partner may love what you hate so much about yourself!
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By Nic Baird
The original American Idol, Kelly Clarkson, “completely fell in love” with talent rep boyfriend, Brandon Blackstock, reports YourTango.com. After eight months of dating, her priorities have shifted from her career to her “best accomplishment”, her relationship with Blackstock, Clarkson said. “I just didn’t think it would happen. It’s like one of those cheesy love songs that didn’t exist, but it does, so that’s cool.” Clarkson promises to still write breakup tracks, despite being in relationship bliss.
What are some ways that not looking for a relationship can help you find one?
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