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Michelle Obama Offers Advice on Choosing Mr. Right

It has recently emerged that the Obama marriage hasn’t always been as happy and trouble-free as it is now, when a book detailing how political ambition almost killed it came out. Despite all this, Mrs. Obama knew from the start that her husband was Mr. Perfect for her, which is why she can now offer advice for ...

10 November 2009
13:21 GMT

I’m No Cougar, I’m a Puma, Demi Moore Tells W Magazine

As defined by the Urban Dictionary, a cougar is a “35+ year old female who is on the ‘hunt’ for a much younger, energetic, willing-to-do-anything male.” With this definition in mind, it’s not really that difficult to see why Hollywood A-lister Demi Moore would be very much opposed to the...

10 November 2009
05:41 GMT

Adam Lambert Is ‘Cool’ with Being Single

Adam Lambert, literally the hottest male artist of the moment, is also a single man, having recently broken up with his boyfriend, interior designer Drake LaBry, for reasons that have not been detailed in the press. With all that, Adam is neither broken hearted nor desperate to find someone else to fill that particul...

6 November 2009
04:46 GMT

Jessica Simpson Is Looking for an Intellectual Man

She might be confused about whether “asks” is a real word or not, or about the fact that tuna might be chicken, but when it comes to the ideal man, Jessica Simpson knows what she wants. And what she wants is a guy with brains – and possibly an artist too – so that she doesn’t get bored w...

31 October 2009
06:22 GMT

Angelina Jolie Had Affair with Mother’s Boyfriend

As if Ian Halperin’s “Brangelina Exposed” biography was not reason enough to worry for Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie, odds are she is yet to face the worst. Andrew Morton, famous for covering the lives of Princess Diana, Tom Cruise and Madonna, is also preparing to come out with an authorized bio...

29 October 2009
03:53 GMT

Recipe for Perfect Marriage: Younger Wife, Education Gap

Romanticism will never die, but that’s not stopping British researchers from trying to come up with a recipe for the perfect marriage. Said recipe is said to be as efficient as it’s completely devoid of all the things that poets love to write about: in short, it implies the wife has to be at least five ye...

26 October 2009
17:21 GMT

Married Couples with Children Are Happiest

It wasn’t long ago that one economist set out to prove the world that having children wasn’t the way to happiness for married couples, but rather their way of deceiving themselves about what life had in store for them. Despite this, a new study comes to show that children do actually bring happiness and s...

26 October 2009
16:31 GMT

Incompetent Bosses Are Also the Most Aggressive, Study Shows

Chances are most of us have already found ourselves in a situation in which we’ve had a superior yell and belittle us whatever the reason, meaning, regardless of whether we did something wrong or not. Until not long ago, researchers believed bully bosses were so aggressive because they wanted to hold on to thei...

15 October 2009
14:21 GMT

Political Career Almost Killed the Obama Marriage

Although Barack and Michelle Obama always put up a united front, coming off as the picture-perfect family where all problems are discussed and then solved, things were not always like that, author Christopher Anderson says in “Barack and Michelle: Portrait of an American Marriage.” Theirs is a love story ...

23 September 2009
14:31 GMT

Women Can Keep a Secret Only for Two Days

They say it’s easy to get a secret out of a woman because she will tell it to you without even having to ask. Although most women consider themselves trustworthy confidantes in whom a friend can find a shoulder to cry on and a “grave” for their secrets, a recent study comes to show that, at the end ...

17 September 2009
14:11 GMT

Chatting with a Gorgeous Woman Makes Men Less Intelligent

They say there are some women so beautiful they can knock the air out of one’s lungs and make one (if that one happens to be a man) lose his mind and make it impossible for him to keep a clear head. A recent study conducted by psychologists at the Radboud University in The Netherlands and cited by The Mirror sh...

5 September 2009
08:11 GMT

‘Marriage Works’ Campaign Promotes Marriage with False Hopes

The Campaign For Our Children (CFOC) organization boasts a series of bold and unique campaigns, the most recent being that aimed at lowering teen pregnancy rates by promoting the institution of marriage. “Marriage Works USA” basically places the emphasis on an idyllic scenario without taking into account ...

2 September 2009
14:31 GMT

Married Men Are a Better Catch, Ladies Believe

They say all the good men are taken and, as a new study shows beyond any doubt, this is precisely why women go mostly for married men in their romantic pursuits, to the detriment of bachelors. It’s called “mate poaching” (soon to be renamed “the Angelina Jolie effect”) and, it seems, it ...

14 August 2009
14:41 GMT

Men Spend 43 Minutes a Day Staring at Women

All those who ever got into a fight with their partner for catching him or her eyeing up someone else (perhaps someone they considered more attractive than them) must know they have overreacted a bit. A new study performed in the UK shows that an average man will spend 43 minutes of his day ogling 10 different women,...

6 August 2009
14:21 GMT

Wife and Mother-in-Law Are Programmed Not to Like Each Other

The tension that is instantly generated whenever his mother comes to visit, or when wife and husband go to his house for dinner has often made the subject of tragedies in ancient times and, more recently, highly popular sitcoms. Getting the wife and the mother-in-law to get along is like reconciling cat and dog, many...

5 August 2009
14:31 GMT

Jennifer Aniston Is OK with Lonely Girl Image

Ever since she split up from husband Brad Pitt, Jennifer Aniston has had nothing but bad luck in her love life. As fans must know, tabloids and celebrity blogs did not fail to pick up on this and, in almost no time, a sort of “urban myth” came to be, which has it that she’s always looking for love a...

5 August 2009
10:16 GMT

Megan Fox Is Officially Single, Scared

Megan Fox’s relationship with “90210” alum Brian Austin Green has often been subject to speculation but, this time, it seems that the romance has truly come to an end. Rumors that she’s moving on from the longtime relationship either with Robert Pattinson or Shia LaBeouf aside, Megan herself c...

17 June 2009
11:08 GMT

Women See Funny Men as More Intelligent

If a good sense of humor was ever a quality that we rated as low in terms of importance, we might as well reconsider that. A new study has revealed that women are more attracted to men who can make them laugh, since they are perceived as more intelligent, therefore, more suitable for a stable relationship, as the Dai...

2 April 2009
14:31 GMT

Madonna Is Using Boytoy Jesus Luz for Publicity

While yesterday speculation had it that Madonna had kidnapped her latest “boytoy,” 22-year-old model Jesus Luz, as his own mother claimed, today rumors have it that their affair is nothing but a marketing plot. Sources are saying that the singer is just using Luz to stir up interest in her tour but, for w...

17 February 2009
09:30 GMT

Scientists Explain How We Choose Our Mates

According to the results of a new behavioral study, conducted at the Indiana University (IU), men and women are very good at determining the interest a man has in a potential partner, but score extremely poor when it comes to judging the same intentions in a woman. In other words, women operate “covertly”...

30 January 2009
21:01 GMT

Forgetting First Romance, a Must for a Happy Love Life

They say we never forget our first love and, in many cases, it is true. However, the time may have come to let our emotions and memories go, as sociologists have learned that holding on to them can make us not appreciate future relationships for what they’re worth, always looking back to our first, much too ide...

19 January 2009
16:01 GMT

Beautiful Women Are Programmed to Be Unfaithful

While the latest study made on the faithfulness of beautiful women as opposed to that of average looking ones is no groundbreaking discovery, it does help to finally settle the matter. Gorgeous women are not made to be loyal, and it’s not something that they can do to help it, as the research has showed.It&rsqu...

14 January 2009
13:41 GMT

Lindsay Lohan Denies Split from Lover Samantha Ronson

Rumors of a bitter brawl between actress Lindsay Lohan and her lover DJ Samantha Ronson that ended their month-long affair have been strongly denied by the former. Not only does the freckled actress claim that she and Sam are still very much together, but she calls the media’s bluff on the alleged break-up that...

6 January 2009
10:51 GMT

Wrong Kind of Commitment Undermines Relationships

Couples in which one of the partners exhibits high levels of relationship-contingent self-esteem (RCSE) may be placed under unnecessary strain, recent scientific studies show. Too much emotional weight placed in the relationship can scare the other partner away, or create uncomfortable situations that do more harm th...

3 December 2008
02:35 GMT

Girlfriend Dumped in Second Life Tries to Kidnap Ex-Beau

Kimberly Jernigan, a 33-year-old woman from North Carolina, was arrested by the New Castle County Detectives after she tried to kidnap her ex-boyfriend using a gun, duct tape and a pair of handcuffs. The two had engaged in a relationship after virtually meeting in the social network Second Life. Jernigan, whose avata...

26 August 2008
10:02 GMT

Online Relationships Simply Don't Last

There is a huge number of social networks and dating websites out there. Their number tends to grow with more and more similar services debuted every day. Since there are so many services available, it's obvious that people are really interested in establishing relationships, meeting new persons and, who knows, ...

26 May 2008
09:55 GMT

Rihanna and Chris Brown Are At It Again!

It seems that the whole world has come to terms with the fact that Rihanna and Chris Brown are dating - except, of course, Rihanna and Chris themselves. The couple rumored couple have been going to great lengths in order to prevent their relationship from leaking to the media, but so far they have been doing a bad jo...

1 April 2008
09:07 GMT

Being in Love Makes You Blind to the Sex Appeal of the Others!

This is the real power of love scientifically proven: hold on to temptation. A study made by a team from UCLA and the online dating service eHarmony and published in the journal Evolution and Human Behavior discovered that people involved in long-term relationships were less attracted by hot members of the opposite s...

15 February 2008
14:06 GMT

Women Know More than Men What's in the Mind of the Partner

Your little pussycat knows better than you what's in her mind and yours, while you, man, rather project your own feelings on judging what's in her mind. This is the result of a research conducted by a team from the School of Social Work and Social Welfare, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Univ...

14 February 2008
14:06 GMT

She'll Hit Him Over the Head with a Wrench!!!

Naomi Campbell and Formula One racing driver Lewis Hamilton were seen together on Tuesday night, sparking - or should I say re-sparking - relationship rumors. The (very) unlikely pair, who attended the Prince's Trust Future Investment gala dinner at London's Camden Roundhouse earlier in the evening, headed ...

29 November 2007
06:05 GMT

Oh, No! Owen Wilson is Dating Chestica Simpson!

Talk about matches NOT made in heaven. And bad timing. And raised eyebrows. No, I'm not talking about a new movie, although I wish it were the case - since then it would be just fiction and it would go away as soon as I turned off the TV. But the fact is, we've been bombarded with rumors about a possible ro...

8 November 2007
09:06 GMT

What Makes a Long Term Relationship?

Why do some couples divorce after one week, while others celebrate their 'golden wedding'. Sex drive 'pushes' people closer to one another, but it's more than the simple biological and behavioral factors than keep them together. Like begets like. This is the folk perception of the fact that h...

10 September 2007
14:06 GMT

Jessica Biel Is Trying to Hit It Off with Justin's Mom

Justin Timberlake does not seem to be aggrieved after breaking up with Cameron Diaz. In fact, the "Sexyback" singer has hooked up with another well known beauty, the sexiest woman alive in 2005 according to Esquire magazine, namely Jessica Biel. And it seems that although Justin might want to take things slow at firs...

23 June 2007
05:51 GMT

Love Makes It All: It Drops Male Sex Drive While Increasing It in Women

Romance exists just for some people? Or does it change us all?A new research shows that men are really more preoccupied with sex than women are, but both genders can change their sexual attitude when involved in an intimate relationship touching their inner feelings. "Men experience a lot of pressure in our society t...

14 June 2007
14:41 GMT

What Makes a Happy Relationship?

There's no such thing as perfect relationship. That's why experts say that the key to a happy relationship could be the acceptance of the fact that some miserable times are unavoidable. If these problems are accepted, this could do more good for a relationship than striving for perfection, explained therapi...

2 June 2007
04:28 GMT


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