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Discover expert analysis and the modern take on dating, brought to you by Marie Claire.
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How to Decode and Respond to His Texts
How To For all those times you're staring at the phone screen wondering what to say.
By Lodro Rinzler Published
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What Type of Guy Dates Smart, Sexy, Confident Women?
You're the complete package—don't settle for less in love your life.
By Lodro Rinzler Published
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You're Not Going to Find Love With That Dating Checklist
Thanks for killing my romance dreams.
By Liana Satenstein Published
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The Height Debate: Do Men Prefer Taller or Shorter Women?
The stereotype that women prefer tall men—or at least, taller than she is—is no secret. The answer is just as simple for men, but in different way.
By Lodro Rinzler Published
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Why Men Cheat—Guys Tell All!
The dish you're dying to hear.
By Lodro Rinzler Published
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Do You Have a Healthy Sex Life?
There's never too much.
By Lodro Rinzler Published
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Back in the Game
An early marriage took Dina Nayeri off the romance market for all of her 20s. One divorce and 12 years later, she entered the dating scene—clueless.
By Dina Nayeri Published
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Deciphering His Vague, Confusing, Off-Putting and Totally Awkward Text Messages
Staring at your phone and not sure what to think or much less reply? Our dating expert cracks the code on four real life text messages that his lady friends recently received, and tells you how to answer.
By Lodro Rinzler Published
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Make It or Break It: How to Ace Your Second Date
How To Your first date was all sunshine and unicorns. You like the guy and he seems to like you too. You're flirting and texting and looking forward to date number two. But the second date calls it all: It's do or die for your future together. Here's how to get to date number three.
By Lodro Rinzler Published
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Single With Siggy: Putting Up Walls
Romance guru Siggy Flicker advises Jess Lipson, a Philadelphia human resources director who finds it hard to soften up.
By Marie Claire Published
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I Told a Guy I Had HPV on Our Second Date
It was bad enough when Rachel Heller discovered she had HPV. Then she had to tell her new guy about her status.
By Marie Claire Published
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What Does He Think of Your First Date Idea?
You met at that party/online/on the corner outside your favorite pizza place and hit it off. You've texted back and forth. You're ready to take it to the next level: it's time for the first date, and then he asks you to pick a place.
By Lodro Rinzler Published
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Disappearing Act: Why He Pulls the Slow Fade
Things are going well and then all of a sudden—it's like he ceases to exist. We asked, they answered: Why men pull the slow fade.
By Lodro Rinzler Published
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Single with Siggy: Caught in the Friend Zone
This month, our love guru Siggy Flicker advises New Yorker Maddy Bloch, a fashion buyer too often caught in the 'friend zone.'
By Marie Claire Published
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Cheating Boyfriend? Readers Share Their Sneakiest Snooping Moments
In a technology-filled world, the temptation to read your man's Facebook messages or snoop through his texts his overwhelming. But are you in the right to do so?
By Diana Pearl Published
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The Day I Stopped Falling for Jerks
After years of dating charismatic, brilliant, slightly off-their-rockers men who were never that into me, I finally learned to quit chasing unavailable guys.
By Laura Fraser Published
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The Accidental Mistress
After a lifetime of serial dating, Kym Canter thought she had finally found Mr. Right. Swept up in a whirlwind romance, they planned a happily ever after life together — until one e-mail changed everything.
By Kym Canter Published
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He Read My Diary!
When a writer's boyfriend found her secret tally of pros and cons about their relationship, she was forced to confront her true feelings.
By Amy Pengra Published
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Second Time Around
After the death of her husband, one writer attempts to rediscover love.
By Rosie Schaap Published
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Scent of a Marriage
How important is smell in a relationship? Very, argues one woman.
By E.J. Balloch Published
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8 Types of Guys That Won't Commit
Features Trying to get men to commit is an age-old riddle in the female mind.
By Rich Santos Published
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8 Texting Mistakes Men Make
Features How his phone can make a once promising prospect into a dating nightmare.
By Rich Santos Published
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10 First-Date Mistakes
Features The best thing about bad dates is that we walk away with a great story.
By Rich Santos Published
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Are Psychics the New Dating Gurus?
Could modern-day fortune tellers be the saviors of single women — of just purveyors of false hope?
By Sarah Ivens Published
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How To Keep A Guy's Attention
How To Our male dating blogger gives you some useful tips on how to keep a guy's attention
By Rich Santos Published
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Biggest Dating Regrets
I went through a phase where I regretted just about every move I made in dating from cold hitting on a girl, to sex, to committing. After enough "mistakes," we have a long wake filled with regret. Here is a list of things we do that we regr
By Rich Santos Published