Whether it's watching your favorite holiday movie together, heading down to the local ice skating rink for a date, or sending an original and silly couple's Christmas card, it's fun to create new holiday traditions with your significant other. If you're in a relationship, tell me: how do you and your partner get into the couple's holiday spirit?
Noah's Controversial Dance, Elin's Divorce Plans, and SJP Talks Twins Watch Noah Cyrus's "Smack That" dance and tell us if you think the moves are too mature, see Elin moving on with her kids, and listen to Sarah Jessica Parker describe her twin daughters as night and day, all on the latest PopSugar Rush!
You know how some topics just seem to keep coming up? Over and over. Well lately it seems like wherever I look, people are talking about their partner's ex. Specifically that they're facebook stalking the exes, or obsessing about the ex in some other way.
I gotta say, I find this bizarre Not in a judgy way, more in a I've moved to a new country and everyone behaves differently way.
I can tell you, with absolute certainty, that I've only ever googled a guy's ex two times and each time I had a pretty compelling reason to. The first time was when I was dating one of the guys with a stalker (real stalker, restraining order and all that). The stalker started to stalk his ex-wife, too. So I asked him how the stalker found his ex-wife and he said she was pretty easy to find, that there was something on google that had both of their names and then when you just googled her. So I had to. It was practically a requirement (and that's when I found out that I was basically the younger version of her, uber-creepy).
The next time was also a requirement. I was dating someone who mentioned his ex-wife (it was in relation to a story about their son) in a very, you know, kind of way. The tone of his voice made it seem like he assumed I knew who she was. And I didn't. Of course, when I got home that night I immediately googled him and there, on the 2nd or 3rd page, she was. She was/is a actress. I'm so not into web-stalking my dates (really, really not) that I didn't bother reading enough of his google hits (back when we first starting dating and I googled him for some basic info) to find her. But then once I did, I had to dig further into her.
Anyway, for today's question I want to know if I'm weird for never checking this stuff out and then checking in (all the time) on the exes. Is that kind of thing the norm? Do you cyber-stalk your date's/significant other's ex?
Stephen Colbert in an Empire State of Mind Last night Alicia Keys was on The Colbert Report to sing her new song all about New York. Of course, Stephen had a complaint: there's not enough about the 'burbs! Watch him take over Jay-Z's part with his own lyrics, praising the suburbs and the city's tourist traps with lyrics like "I own this city from 41st to 47."
This 1975 cold-weather fashion treat claims to be "sexy on her" and "smoothly good-looking on him." It also hints at the "snuggly fashion" trend to come.
We know Monday is the most dreaded day of the workweek, but you are about to change all that! How would you like to “Make Over Monday,” while at the same time bring some happiness to others to brighten up their Monday? Oh, and how about winning a prize for your kind efforts? Here’s your chance!
Use your generous imagination, and do some good! Now that could be over tipping the waitress struggling through her Monday or bringing treats to the office for everyone to enjoy. It’s your choice!
Tell us how you plan to make over your Monday in the comments section, and you will be entered for a chance to win your very own Make Over Monday prize pack!
If you were a young woman following Victorian dating rules by the book (and there was a book!) then you did not flirt. “It is only the contemptible flirt" — wrote John H. Young in 1882's Our Deportment, or the Manners, Conduct, and Dress of the Most Refined Society — "that keeps an honorable man in suspense for the purpose of glorifying herself by his attentions in the eyes of friends." So I guess it was OK to flirt with a dishonorable man!
Of course, where there are pointless dating rules, there are women with fans. And Victorian women used fans to convey their intentions because courtship was serious business, and there was no time to waste on Sir Right Now. As we wait for the premiere of The Young Victoria, see if you can decode the fanned messages that all the honorable men were expected to read.
If you were a young woman following Victorian dating rules by the book (and 
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