So I’ve been reading this fantastic book called Deeper Dating. It was the result of a few painful conversations with my life coach about why I was sabotaging all my potential relationships, or mostly just not even looking for them. I knew that not dressing well-enough, or having the right pick up lines wasn’t what was […]
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Kerry Cronin, professor at Boston College, is well aware of how this new generation has evolved their own values. She speaks of three prominent groups today in the modern dating world. The first group is made up of those who replace dating with hooking up, or “hanging out’. While this type of casual sex, which
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The death of modern dating has been coming for a long time. For Lisa Bunnage, parenting coach and the presenter of a Ted Talk on today’s hookup culture, it started in the 60’s when child-rearing adults began shirking their responsibilities as parents. As women gradually gained access to the workforce (a good thing, mind you)
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As Lauren Peterson recently discovered, modern dating sucks. She had met Michael over Bumble, and they started hooking up every Monday night after both agreeing that they weren’t looking for love, or any sort of commitment in particular. After six weeks, Lauren had the routine down. Every Monday evening she would walk over to Michael’s apartment,
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I noticed a really attractive man while driving home last week. He looked so good that I had to look twice, without serious detriment to my focus on the road, of course. Now, being a modern, 20-something, working woman who is about to start a family, and who, like Stephen Colbert, is giving Catholicism a
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