Category: Dating & Singles

Book Review: Style, Sex, & Substance
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Book Review: Style, Sex, & Substance

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by on May 14, 2012 in Columnists, Dating & Singles, Featured, Live in Christ, Marriage, Men, On Books, On the Job, Parenting, Women
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Style, Sex, & Substance: 10 Catholic Women Consider the Things that Really Matter, edited buy Hallie Lord, is full of spiritual truths and spunk! The ten women who each tackle a different current issue seem to hit most of the hot topics usually found splashed across the covers of women’s tabloids, but from a Catholic [...]

4 Reasons to Keep Bikini Pictures Off Facebook
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4 Reasons to Keep Bikini Pictures Off Facebook

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by on May 07, 2012 in Dating & Singles, Featured
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Even though the weather in my neck of the woods as of late would seem to indicate otherwise, the calendar is telling me that summer is just around the corner.  You know what that means: Beach Season! If you recall, last summer was My First Summer Without a Bikini, and honestly, I haven’t looked back [...]

Love Doesn’t React in Anger
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Love Doesn’t React in Anger

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by on Apr 28, 2012 in Dating & Singles, Featured
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Dear Anthony, I was wondering if you could help me. I really love my boyfriend, but sometimes he just snaps at me for no reason. I don’t like it when he raises his voice at me. I snap back at him in anger, which doesn’t make it any better, I know. But I don’t want [...]

Dating: Solid Bunny vs. Hollow Bunny
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Dating: Solid Bunny vs. Hollow Bunny

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by on Apr 23, 2012 in Dating & Singles, Featured
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The highlight of every child’s Easter basket is the chocolate bunny. I couldn’t wait to sink my teeth into it. I don’t know about you, but I have always preferred the solid chocolate bunny over the hollow bunny. What an utter disappointment to bite into that ear and have it shatter chocolate crumbs all over. [...]

Bring Your Luggage, Don’t Lug Your Baggage
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Bring Your Luggage, Don’t Lug Your Baggage

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by on Apr 13, 2012 in Dating & Singles, Featured
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If you haven’t yet seen the film October Baby yet, find the time to do so.  I can’t recommend it strongly enough. It’s one of the best films I’ve ever seen. I’m not going to critique the film or focus on the obvious pro-life aspect of the story (that’s for you to discover for yourself), [...]

Meditation on the Crucifix
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Meditation on the Crucifix

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by on Apr 06, 2012 in Dating & Singles, Featured
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“We become what we love and who we love shapes what we become. If we love things, we become a thing. If we love nothing, we become nothing. Imitation is not a literal mimicking of Christ, rather it means becoming the image of the beloved, an image disclosed through transformation. This means we are to [...]

The Guy-Girl Friendship
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The Guy-Girl Friendship

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by on Apr 03, 2012 in Dating & Singles, Featured
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Stop me if you’ve heard this one. Men and women can’t be just friends. It was the main point of a video that made the rounds a few months back in the wonderful world of social media, linked below for your convenience. http://youtu.be/T_lh5fR4DMA Makes a compelling case.  But regardless of which side of the fence [...]

Fasting That Can Help Your Love Life
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Fasting That Can Help Your Love Life

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by on Mar 14, 2012 in Dating & Singles, Featured, Live in Christ
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Lent is a time when we make an attempt to address things about our corporeal and spiritual lives that need addressing. Many give up sweets as a gesture of putting aside objectively good things associated with feasting to live the days of mourning in preparation for when they will feast again at Easter. Some attempt [...]

Living Together . . . Why It is Not a Good Thing
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Living Together . . . Why It is Not a Good Thing

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by on Mar 08, 2012 in Columnists, Dating & Singles, Featured
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Even if you aren’t a Christian, even if you are an atheist, living together is NOT a good idea.  Yeah, everybody is doing it now. It’s the norm.  Who needs to get married when you have people ready and willing to move in with you?  But, here’s why it’s not a good situation. First of [...]

Attachment in Human Love
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Attachment in Human Love

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by on Mar 06, 2012 in Dating & Singles, Featured, Marriage
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Love between a man and a woman is one of the most beautiful things in the world. But what happens when the love you share with that person becomes the most important thing in your life? There is nothing more natural than wanting to be loved. We need it. We need it from our parents [...]

The Silent Treatment
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The Silent Treatment

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by on Feb 28, 2012 in Dating & Singles, Featured
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Have you ever given or received the silent treatment? Chances are good that most of you have. I think this AT & T commercial about the silent treatment is very clever, and will give you a good laugh. Like most jokes, there is an element of truth to it. In particular, the angst that accompanies [...]

Just Give Me a Hug!
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Just Give Me a Hug!

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by on Feb 14, 2012 in Dating & Singles, Featured
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If you don’t know the power of a hug, then you are probably not having much success in your relationships. To hug is to heal.  To be hugged is to be healed. To not hug is to deprive. I am not exaggerating when I say that hugs have the power to convert. A person having [...]

Top Five Dating Tips for Men
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Top Five Dating Tips for Men

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by on Feb 13, 2012 in Dating & Singles, Featured, Men
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This Valentine’s Day, I thought I’d do something different.  People who follow my writing know that I rarely give guy’s dating advice.  I feel that it can be hard for a woman to effectively mentor a man on dating, because let’s face it: we have not walked in their shoes.  Nevertheless, a sincere Catholic man [...]

Anxiety About Being Single
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Anxiety About Being Single

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by on Feb 04, 2012 in Dating & Singles, Featured
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Anyone who is not yet married give a little cringe when hearing the words of St. Paul in the second reading of the Mass this past Sunday, taken from 1 Corinthians, Chapter 7:32-35. Basically, the advice of St. Paul is to remain unmarried because to marry is a distraction to focusing on the things of [...]

Love is Not Enough. Charity Matters.
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Love is Not Enough. Charity Matters.

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by on Jan 28, 2012 in Dating & Singles
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So just how selfish of a person are you? Answer: Very. Don’t worry, it’s not just you. We all are. Without a realization and admission of selfishness in your life, you lack the true charity required to successfully live out marital love. Therefore, your dating efforts are extremely risky. I say “true charity” because there [...]

Vending Machine Morality
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Vending Machine Morality

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by on Jan 27, 2012 in Dating & Singles, Featured
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Quarters can’t buy protection against STD’s. Even without religion, the facts speak the truth. Peace of mind is free. When a former college president shared that he had installed vending machines with condoms in the girls’ dorms, my face must have betrayed disapproval.  After a pregnant pause, (sorry, couldn’t resist) he further explained, “The girls [...]

New Year’s Resolution for Singles
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New Year’s Resolution for Singles

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by on Jan 14, 2012 in Dating & Singles, Featured
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Another year, another long list of New Year’s resolutions waiting to be broken or fizzle out. I am not much of a New Year’s resolution person, but many are. God bless them! The spirit of wanting to make a change for the better is alive and well, especially in January. Most people fail at keeping [...]

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Imitating the Holy Family

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by on Jan 09, 2012 in Dating & Singles, Featured
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This is the time of year when Christians are most focused on the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph. Reflection on the Holy Family is more than just the Nativity scene. Naturally, Christmas focuses on the birth of the Saviour, and Mary and Joseph play key roles in this most important event. But, there [...]

Do You Reject Dates Based on Family Background?
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Do You Reject Dates Based on Family Background?

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by on Jan 07, 2012 in Dating & Singles, Featured
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The Christmas season brought an influx of articles and posts about family.  Normally, “family” is one of those words that evokes that warm, toasty feeling.  When dating, family can cause much anxiety, though. Not only do people assess individuals as spousal material based on their own merits, but they also critique their family background.  My observation is [...]

I’ll Be Home for Christmas
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I’ll Be Home for Christmas

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by on Dec 22, 2011 in Dating & Singles, Featured
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Dear Anthony, I’m getting married in June to the most wonderful man in the world!  But we are having a disagreement about how to handle our last Christmas as a non-married couple.  We can’t make it to both our families, but we cannot agree on whose family we should be with.  I assumed he would [...]

You Don’t Move to D.C. to Get Married?
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You Don’t Move to D.C. to Get Married?

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by on Dec 19, 2011 in Dating & Singles, Featured
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“You don’t move to Washington, D.C., to get married, you move here for your career.” Huh?  What? I spotted this line in a new Washington Post article about the supposed plunging popularity of marriage in the U.S.  If you have not seen the piece – you can find it here. In general – I think [...]

Are You Dating a Pharisee?
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Are You Dating a Pharisee?

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by on Dec 15, 2011 in Dating & Singles, Featured
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Do you feel that you are dating someone who strikes you as having an overly high moral, education, or even cultural standard? Do you feel like your every action is being observed? Is the person overly critical of you? Are they quick to find fault in you but not in themselves? Do they make you [...]

When Siblings Disagree With Your Choice of a Spouse
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When Siblings Disagree With Your Choice of a Spouse

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by on Nov 28, 2011 in Dating & Singles, Featured
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Dear Anthony, I just got engaged to a great guy.  I love him a lot, but my sisters both think I am making a mistake.  It bothers me a lot that they don’t approve of him and I am afraid this is going to cause problems both now as well as after we are married. [...]

Your Relationship Deserves a Good Home, Part II
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Your Relationship Deserves a Good Home, Part II

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by on Nov 17, 2011 in Dating & Singles, Featured
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Home is the place where we feel safe, where we can shut out the world, enjoy the people we love and who love us, be accepted for who we are, and always go if something is wrong. Home is the place where we grow into the person we are called to be. Those whose home [...]

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