March 2012 Blog Posts (10)

Ack!! Your computer is acting up—again—and despite hitting “escape” and every other “get-me-outta-here” key you can think of,  you’re in frozen hell. “I hate this computer!” you mutter. Your co-worker glances over at you, “That’s what you always say. Maybe you should try talking pretty to it.” You snort, “Right! And the computer can hear me and will suddenly unlock itself. I’ll bet you still believe in Santa Claus.” Your co-worker shrugs: “Works for me.”

You grumble and…

Here’s a good chicken and egg question: which came first, society seeing moms as asexual; or moms putting themselves in that asexual role.



This conundrum struck me while reading the Maclean’s article, “Why Sex Appeal Trumps an M.B.A” by…

Whenever a company unveils a survey or study that supports their position and/or industry we have to take it with a grain of salt. Saying that, however, we aren't surprised to see the numbers out of this survey of 15,000 users of MocoSpace, a social gaming site. Perhaps the biggest surprise was not that people were playing mobile games, but where. The number one…

Debby Herbenick, co-director of the Center for Sexual Health Promotion at Indiana University estimates that as many as 15% of women have the ability to experience orgasm during exercise, according to a statement made to Time magazine. She is the lead author of on online survey that gathered data on women ages 18 to 63 over five weeks. The information…

We're really excited to announce that co-founder and editor-in-chief, Steve Cooper, has just launched a new weekly column for Forbes.com that will discuss the business lessons learned from running Hitched. You can "Follow" Steve to get alerted whenever a new column is posted. His first post is a short introduction on the launch of Hitched and more importantly,…

The Today Show did a segment on the book Fifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James. The interview first showed a group of ‘suburban moms’ reading,…

Researchers out of Dartmouth Medical School studied 99 men who were all clients at fertility clinics. Each filled out a questionnaire listing what they ate and found that saturated fats, the stuff in meat and dairy foods, was associated with lower sperm counts. In fact, the men in the study who consumed the most saturated fat had 35 percent fewer sperm than…

Does the honeymoon period last a month? A year? Five years? In short, it depends. In fact, Kira Birditt, an assistant research professor at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, found that although the conventional wisdom is that all marriages decline in happiness over time, that's not…

I’ll start with a warning: Do NOT confront a cheater without a good plan. If you don’t follow some critical rules, most chances he will either angrily run out of the house (allowing him to get his story straight), or stay and turn the focus to you (by attacking you for snooping on him, or blaming you for your problems etc). This guide will show you the right way to confront cheating and getting the truth out of him – Today.…

Getting gifts during a holiday, like Valentine's Day, is always nice (and hopefully appreciated).



However, it's the non-holiday days of the year when we receive a little something that really can bring those magic, filled-with-intimacy moments. It takes you back to those nostalgic 'newbie days' when you wrote each other love notes, endless emails and texts, and…