Dear Dr. Darcy: I’m dating a closeted slob.

Q: Dear Dr. Darcy: Ever since my boyfriend and I decided to move in together, our relationship has been suffering. Actually, I have been suffering. He’s a closeted pig. A slob. He doesn’t pick up after himself and there’s no methodology around how housework gets done. As a result, I do everything. I have turned…

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Think you’d never fall for a psycho?

He’s not going to show up for the first date swinging an axe with swastika tattoos in plain sight. And since men are 3 times as likely to be psychopaths (clinical term: antisocial personality disorder which I’m calling psycho), I’ve chosen to use the male pronoun for this post, lest I’m accused of making unfair…

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Deal Breakers

Q Dear Dr. Darcy:About 4 months ago, I started dating an incredible woman and I think I’m falling in love with her. Before meeting me, she was single for 7 months and before that, she was with her ex for a year… When we started dating, she was supposedly ready to meet someone new. Lately, I…

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Why LOVE is Irrelevant to the Success of Your Relationship

Relationship success is a science. Long-term love has less to do with the falling part than it does with the maintaining part. We’re all familiar with the falling, if not through first-hand experience then from movies, music and social media. Society loves to highlight the beginnings of relationships: The meeting, the dating, and, if the…

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