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The Governor’s Mistress: A Bermuda Love Triangle

It was an affair that started online, one of those flirtatious friendships between people who live far away and are very different that turned into a level of honest communication in can be hard to have in everyday life, in real time. Two people far ...

From SUSAN MERNIT, BlogHer,  5 Jul 2009
Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  Mark Sanford,  Jodi Picoult

Masturbation: Does your partner know you masturbate?

So, do you do it?  Pet the mouse, comfort the kitten, make with your muffin, play with the little man in the boat, dive for the pearl, pleasure yourself. And if you’re in a relationship with someone else, possibly a fella, do you do it when he’s around, ...

From SUSAN MERNIT, BlogHer,  28 Jun 2009

Would you come out as bi?

When the singer Pink came out as bisexual last week and I read the news, I was sitting in my home office with A, working on edit plans for a client. “This is amazing,” I said to him. “Pink said she’s into guys—and girls.” “That’s cool,” he replied, ...

From SUSAN MERNIT, BlogHer,  11 May 2009
Related Topics: Lindsay Lohan,  Margaret Cho

So, would you date a Bi guy?

For someone like me, living in oh so open-minded Northern California, the tabloid press stories about celebrities’ sex lives are kinda puzzling. Every week, there’s a story outing some star’s sexual life: “Will Smith is secret love of Tom Cruise—and ...

From SUSAN MERNIT, BlogHer,  25 Apr 2009
Related Topics: Gavin Rossdale,  Will Smith,  Tom Cruise,  Jimmy Kimmel,  Sean Penn

Friendships that turn to romance

Singer/songwriter Samantha Murphy has a fabulous song At the Laundromat" ♫ that describes a woman spending her rent money on new boots, new hair cut and color, all for the purpose of going out and finding a new guy—only then, she meets HIM over a pile ...

From SUSAN MERNIT, BlogHer,  11 Apr 2009

Love & Devices

I confess, I am a nerdgirl who loves her toys. So this is a column about technology, toys and relationships. First, about the addictive stuff, which you non-tech obsessives call the bad habits. When I heard that Jennifer Aniston had broken up with John ...

From SUSAN MERNIT, BlogHer,  26 Mar 2009
Related Topics: John Mayer,  Jennifer Aniston,  Amy Gahran,  Scobleizer,  Twitter Inc

Are past loves like past lives? Can you revisit them? --And what can they tell you?

Although I doubt I had a past life as an Egyptian princess or a cousin to Dorothy Parker, I have no doubt that the people I love and am close to now share traits with those from the past. Had I simply remembered why Marshall Marx was a bad relationship ...

From SUSAN MERNIT, BlogHer,  17 Mar 2009
Related Topics: Dorothy Parker,  Cindy Crawford

Dreaming the future: My relationship(s) ten years from now

At dinner a few nights ago, I told my housemates (my boyfriend and our friend AG) that I was writing a piece for BlogHer about where I thought my relationship would be 10 years from now, and where I wanted it to be. The conclusion to the story I told ...

From SUSAN MERNIT, BlogHer,  9 Mar 2009

Love in the Time of Layoffs, or One Works, the Other doesn't

For many of the people I know, it’s as if, all of a sudden, the bubble burst and their income—or their credit—took a nose dive. Formerly employed writers are on food stamps, caterers are taking in roommates, and people are assessing what they ...

From SUSAN MERNIT, BlogHer,  2 Mar 2009

DIY Sex: Give your sex life a tune up, part 2: With a partner

Most people want to have sex, at least some of the time, with someone else.  While being a good lover to yourself is important, most of us want to be with another. So if you’re in a relationship, married, live together, or hooking up steadily, the ...

From SUSAN MERNIT, BlogHer,  21 Feb 2009
Related Topics: Google Inc.

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