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MIAMI BEACH, Fla. -- When Sex and the City's Samantha Jones was diagnosed with breast cancer, her boyfriend pledged to stay with her through treatment. Meanwhile, celebrities such as Sheryl Crow, Kylie Minogue, Edie Falco and Christina Applegate, battled the disease single. Since October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, leading online dating sites Date.com (http://www.date.com), Read more...

Looking for success on the dating scene? MIT Sloan Assistant Professor Joshua M. Ackerman suggests it might be a good idea to bring a friend. Friends will try to help you find partners to your liking, weed out undesirables, and support you in other ways, says Ackerman, a social psychologist and expert on consumer behavior and marketing at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Read more...

ARLINGTON, Va. -- Most people think it's probably unwise to have an affair with one's boss or someone else with whom you work, but is it unethical? Well, yes and no -- depending on whether you are a man or woman, according to the Ethics Resource Center, which today released initial statistics from its sixth biennial National Business Ethics Survey (NBES). While only 14.9 percent of Americans Read more...

If you're looking for love at work, you might want to consider how an office romance can affect your career and whether it's worth the risk to go there. Here are a few tips to help keep you out of hot water. 1. Before launching into an office romance, know the company's policies regarding office relationships. Some companies have rules against it. If relationships are forbidden, you Read more...

From the hoopla, you'd think 40-something women only recently looked up from their quarterly reports, household chores or pre-teen children to cast an eager eye on verdant pastures of younger men. But long before Courteney Cox prowled the cul-de-sacs of ABC's Cougar Town and tongues wagged over Demi Moore, Madonna or even Elizabeth Taylor, women of a certainage have tangled with the young and the Read more...

Money and marriage don't always mix. That's why couples eyeing matrimony should vow to discuss their financial compatibility before walking down the aisle and exchanging vows, according to credit counselors. "Ninety percent of relationships are ended because of finances," warned Mary Buffington Thomas, director of education for Credit Counseling Centers of Oklahoma Inc. She Read more...

Preparing for a blind date is never an easy task. Here are some helpful tips to make it just a little bit easier. If the blind date was set up by a friend, get references and opinions from your mutual circle of friends. When arranging where to meet pick somewhere comfortable but busy such as a popular restaurant or bar.  A blind date is not the time to suggest an unusual excursion, Read more...

Chatting to an attractive woman is bad for a man's brain, according to a study. It found that men perform less well in tests to measure brain function when they have just spent time with a woman they fancy. And experts believe the reason may be guys use up so much of their "cognitive resources" trying to impress beautiful women, they have little left for other tasks. The Read more...

So the story of your marriage ended less like a romantic comedy and more like a Shakespearean tragedy. You may feel like crawling into bed with Ben & Jerry's, but rather than giving into temptation, focus on the future. "Think of the time and energy expended on your former partnership and the divorce proceedings as a tangible asset," says Ellen Sabin, former executive director of Read more...

Single women prefer men already in committed relationships and are the more likely gender to "mate-poach," according to a study by two Oklahoma State University researchers. Social psychology professor Melissa Burkley and graduate student Jessica Parker surveyed 184 male and female students on campus in an effort to determine which gender is more likely to lure a mate from another Read more...

During an idle moment last year while sitting in front of her computer, Beth Stokes decided to find out happened to her first love, a 13-year-old boy she had not seen in decades. She easily and quickly found Andy through social networking site Classmates.com. After e-mail exchanges, the two spoke by phone -- and Stokes, 46, felt the intervening years melt away. For her, the Internet had Read more...

Breaking up isn't just hard to do. It can be nearly impossible for unmarried couples who find themselves "heart married," a term coined by former Memphis City School Board members Lora Jobe and Barbara Prescott, in the new book they co-authored, "My Heart Got Married And I Didn't Know It" (Wipf and Stock Publishers: $18). The women call heart marriage a profound bonding of Read more...

It's OK to have a little "woo-hoo" at work. So says Sam Chapman, a Chicago-based public relations executive and book author, who is referring to the sexual feelings that bubble up in the office. Chapman is not advocating acting inappropriately on those feelings -- that could get you fired, break up your marriage, or get you sued for sexual harassment. But since it's normal and Read more...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Don't call 'em cougars, OK? Yeah, they date younger guys. But ... "I don't hunt," says Donna Martinson, 43, giving her blond mane a shake. "They hunt me." Martinson, who works in real estate, is sipping a glass of white wine at Fort Lauderdale, Fla.'s Blue Martini. Its rep as a cougar lair is so entrenched that Ladies Night at the Read more...

ST. CLOUD, Minn. -- Global Commerce & Communication Inc. has launched the Midlife Dating Network (http:// www.midlifedating.org), a new dating Web site designed especially for singles in their 40s and beyond. "We created this Web site when we saw that there were no online dating sites for midlife singles that were straightforward, easy to use as well as free or low-cost," said Read more...

Last Thursday, girls' night, our weekly meeting was in mid-flow and we were in deep discussion about serious current affairs -- who's dating who -- when the bombshell came. "I'm seeing Joe," blurted one of my chums. Joe. Her platonic mate. For 10 years. Noooooo. Big mistake. The danger of messing with platonic relationships is one of the things that make it into the "love Read more...

CANBERRA, Australia -- Opposites attract or so the saying goes. But a new study suggests this may not be the key to a long-lasting marriage. Academics from the Australian National University tracked the relationships and characteristics of nearly 2,500 couples between 2001 and 2007. They found the factors that increased the likelihood of marriage breakdown included differences in age, Read more...

More single senior Americans are looking for love online, experts say. Online Dating Magazine editor Joe Tracy said the increase in seniors using their computers to find the right romantic partner follows increased marketing by online dating groups targeting the age demographic, The Washington Post reported Sunday. "They're seeing their sons and daughters use online dating and have Read more...

Most unmarried U.S. couples who live together aren't trying to test their relationship -- they just want to spend more time together, a multiyear study found. Most couples also didn't consciously decide to live together, the federally funded University of Denver dating and cohabitation study found. In fact, two-thirds of cohabitors say they either "slid into it" or "talked Read more...

A date doesn't need to break the bank, especially as potential partners are increasingly likely to value substance over style during the recession. These tips will help you whittle the costs of wooing and give the phrase "cheap date" new meaning. 1. Do your homework. Does your date dig dive bars? Or a neighborhood taqueria? Sometimes finding a hole-in-the-wall place -- instead Read more...