Category Archives: Relationships
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Do men hope for marriage?
Leave a commentDecember 17, 2013 by hollyhodgepodge
I inadvertently played engagement photographer a couple of weekends ago. While walking across the Walnut Street Bridge, a woman asked …
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Solo Christmas isn’t a tragedy
Leave a commentDecember 17, 2013 by hollyhodgepodge
One of the best Christmases I ever spent was in Paris, in a borrowed flat with the boy I love. …
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Long distance relationship challenge
Leave a commentDecember 17, 2013 by hollyhodgepodge
A friend once told me long-distance relationships should be avoided like the plague. “In fact,” he said, “they are worse …
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Northwestern live sex demo: No harm, no foul?
Leave a commentDecember 17, 2013 by hollyhodgepodge
Northwestern University, where I attended graduate school, recently spent a few weeks at the center of a controversy eddy for …
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Mean people suck
Leave a commentOctober 17, 2013 by hollyhodgepodge
I want to talk a little about kindness to strangers. Not Blanche DuBois-style kindness, but the impoliteness we seem to …
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Monster-in-law
Leave a commentOctober 17, 2013 by hollyhodgepodge
You think your mother-in-law is bad? An email sent from an English woman to her stepdaughter-in-law-to-be went viral last week, …
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The danger of wearing your heart on your sleeve
Leave a commentOctober 10, 2013 by hollyhodgepodge
Despite writing a newspaper column that often touches on my personal life, I place a lot of value on discretion. …
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Online dating would scare the hell out of me
1October 10, 2013 by hollyhodgepodge
How do two people meet? My grandparents met on a hay ride. My parents were introduced by a mutual friend. …
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Who says parents-to-be should get the parties
Leave a commentOctober 10, 2013 by hollyhodgepodge
With respect to Jane Austen, if it is not a truth universally acknowledged that once your friends start having children …
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