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the good, the bad and the ugly: Rihanna and Chris Brown
02.15.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

I’ve been holding off on commenting on this for a while, but since people are asking, here’s my two cents. the good well, some light is being shed on domestic violence in the black community. We are actually acknowledging it exists and speaking about it with our friends. We are seeing that it can happen [...]
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good news about love
01.05.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

Apparently it can last a lifetime, according to CNN and the researchers at Stony Brook University in New York. *phew* What a relief. And I’m totally not being sarcastic. Previous research has suggested that the first stages of romantic love fade within 15 months and after 10 years it has gone completely, the newspaper said. [...]
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The Demise of Dating?
12.18.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

The other day my friend sent me a link to Charles M. Blow’s op-ed column in the New York Times entitled, “The Demise of Dating.” The gist is that dating is essentially dead and hooking up is here to stay. Ugh. While the article focus’s on a study conducted on high school students, I can [...]
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apparently i’m a conservative dater
09.24.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

So the other day i went to lunch with a new coworker just to have “black girl” chat – you know how that goes when you’re the only two black girls here. Anyway it was normal stuff, you know office gossip and the like and then we started talking about her marriage. She met her [...]
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“Beggars can’t be choosers”
08.22.08 | Permalink | 4 Comments

is what he said to me over dinner. Beggers (black women) can’t be choosers (about who they date). Because after, it’s supply and demand baby. Educated, financially stable Black men are in high demand and Black women shouldn’t expect to get one. We should take whatever we can get and be happy. In an earlier [...]