Friday, January 16

LIFESTYLE

Pick Up Lines That Will Make Her Laugh
DATING

Pick Up Lines That Will Make Her Laugh

There are hundreds if not thousands of pick up lines out there. However, if you want to make her laugh you'll want to try one of these top funny pick up lines. Is your dad a thief? Then who stole the sparkle from the stars and put them in your eyes? Can I borrow your cell phone? I want to call my mother and tell her I just met the girl of my dreams. Do you mind if I flirt with you? When I looked up the word beautiful in the thesaurus, your name was there. Excuse me, which pick up lines work best for you? Excuse me, I seem to have misplaced my phone number, can I borrow yours please? May I have directions to your heart? Have you always been so cute or must you work at it? Wait a minute, don't I know you? Right you're the girl with the beautiful smile! I'm not drunk, just intoxicat...
Skinny Girls Are For Wimps – Men Who Love BBWs
ATTRACTION

Skinny Girls Are For Wimps – Men Who Love BBWs

You might think the title of this article alludes to the fact that a larger woman might require a physically strong man in order to handle her ample charms, but you would be quite wrong. In our popular culture, the media worships the beautiful, perfectly made-up, perfectly-coiffed, perfectly-dressed, THIN woman! Our current standard of beauty is based on super models, actresses, musical artists, reality TV stars, all for the most part very thin women. With the overwhelming amount of these images bombarding us every day, the message seems clear: women who do not fit this standard of beauty are unattractive, unloveable, and unacceptable. All BBWs have at one time or another felt the pressure of trying to conform to this ideal. Fad diets, excessive exercising, diuretics, and questionable di...
Bedtime Stories For Adults: You Can Apply Acting Exercises To Save Your Relationship
RELATIONSHIPS

Bedtime Stories For Adults: You Can Apply Acting Exercises To Save Your Relationship

If we think about renowned A-list movie stars that are dating or married, do we get the notion that they know certain information (which we don't) that can help them become closer and perpetually interested in one another? After all, they are expert artisans of their craft and they can conceive and perform stories at their own will. We will be exploring 5 main ways, taken from our bedtime stories for adults advice collection, to strengthen your love and communication. Because it doesn't take a professional actor to play children games, we can all apply simple acting techniques to improve and continue to feed our relationship. This is something we all must do at one point, because paid entertainment (movies, restaurants, trips) can only last so long. And Adam and Eve did not have paid ente...
A New Study Finds Youth Largely Underestimate The Risks Of Contracting STIs Through Oral Sex
PARENTING

A New Study Finds Youth Largely Underestimate The Risks Of Contracting STIs Through Oral Sex

Young people are largely unaware of the risk of contracting sexually transmitted infections, or STIs, through oral sex. That’s the finding of our recent study, published in Annals of Family Medicine. Research and education on oral sex are critical because it is a very common sexual practice. And many STIs are transmitted orally, including herpes, gonorrhea, chlamydia, syphilis, HIV and human papillomavirus (HPV). Why it matters The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that 85% of sexually active people ages 18 to 44 have engaged in oral sex at least once. A separate survey found that 41% of adolescents ages 15 to 19 reported having oral sex. Historically, research on reducing STI transmission among young people has focused primarily on heterosexual vaginal intercourse rathe...
‘Bromosexual’ Friendships – An Emerging Science
RELATIONSHIPS

‘Bromosexual’ Friendships – An Emerging Science

For a long time, friendships between gay men and straight men – what some now call “bromosexual” friendships – were uncommon. Homophobia was likely one reason; another was that straight men probably assumed they didn’t have much in common with gay men. But lately, “bromosexual” friendships have started to receive more attention, acceptance and interest. They’re being explored and depicted in movies, books and blogs. In October, The New York Times even devoted an article in their Style section to “The Rise of the ‘Bromosexual’ Friendship.” This sort of normalization is good news. But social scientists still haven’t studied the dynamics of these friendships: why they develop and how they’re maintained. We’re part of a team of community, evolutionary and social psychologists that has recen...
Is It Really Empowering For A Women To Make The First Move?
DATING

Is It Really Empowering For A Women To Make The First Move?

Heterosexual dating conventions have long held that men make the first move: first to flirt, first to ask out on a date, first to propose. What if the roles were reversed? That’s what one dating app, Bumble, has tried to do. Bumble brands itself as a feminist dating app that’s designed to empower women. According to Bumble’s website, the app was developed to “challenge the antiquated rules of dating” by requiring those who identify as women to initiate communication with men they match with. With over 100 million users as of 2020, Bumble is one of the most popular dating apps on the market, and in interviews I conducted with over 100 people about online dating in my “Connecting Digitally” study, more than half reported using Bumble. But my research shows that Bumble, despite purporting to ...
Everything You Need To Know To Claim The Child Tax Credit This Tax Filing Season
FINANCIAL HEALTH

Everything You Need To Know To Claim The Child Tax Credit This Tax Filing Season

The monthly child tax credit payments may be over, but families now face a new hurdle: Filing for the remaining portion they’re owed. An estimated 40 million households will be applying for the benefit this tax filing season, which, thanks to a bevy of coronavirus-related claims, is already expected to come with significant challenges and delays. The child tax credit, which was expanded to more people and for a larger amount in early 2021, was designed to arrive in two chunks in 2021 to nearly all families with children. The first payments were in six monthly increments. The second would come with families’ tax returns in 2022 — if they know how to get it. “There’s a huge, huge knowledge gap here,” said Jen Burdick, a lawyer at Community Legal Services of Philadelphia who has been helpi...
How To Find A Penfriend
DATING

How To Find A Penfriend

Finding a snail mail pen friend used to be quite straight forward. All one had to do was to check out the personal columns of news papers and magazines and write to any pen pal clubs who had their adverts there but the internet changed all that. People deserted snail mail pen friend clubs in favor of internet dating sites however there are people who are not computer savvy or prefer to correspond with others the old-fashioned way, the advantages of this are the dangers of internet dating compared with correspondence by letter. What can be more personal than receiving a handwritten letter through the post? So how does one make the initial contact when there are so few in any correspondence clubs advertised in the newspapers? The most obvious answer to that is to do a Google search of pen f...
Does Someone Always Have To Win?
DATING

Does Someone Always Have To Win?

The words sound inviting enough. 'Darling, it's a lovely day, let's go for a bike ride in the country'. But what starts out as a pleasant few hours together may all too quickly turn sour if one person can't bear to come 'second' and is in desperate need of being the fastest, fittest, always having to win every stretch of the journey. You may remember coverage of the race where the runner in second position saw the person in front of him stop, clearly thinking that he'd crossed the finishing line. Not wanting to win the race that way he pushed the man in front over the finish line, afterwards saying he felt that it was the right thing to do. How exhausting is it when someone always has to be right and win? - Some people always need to have the last word, not realizing that over time th...
Does My Ex Miss Me? Reddit Explains All
BREAK UP

Does My Ex Miss Me? Reddit Explains All

If you find yourself wondering, does my ex miss me? And then you go on Reddit to try and find help, you might be poking in the wrong direction. While Reddit can certainly be a great way to get other peoples' perspective on a breakup, it won't actually help you get your ex back. The key is to find a balance in your life so you can become the attractive person your ex used to love. Advice from Reddit on Breakups Reddit has a good user community with many other people in your exact situation. The only problem is that the folks here may not have wanted to go through the process of reconciliation. Many of them have moved on from their breakups and will share their stories, but helpful tips for getting back with your ex may be hard to find. If you're looking for advice from Reddit on a breaku...