Why I Refuse to Turn 30

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Young adults are uncertain about the value of commitment to adult responsibilities like marriage and career, as they seem more difficult to achieve, and less permanent, than they’ve been for previous generations.

I Thought You Were Like a Ken Doll

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Is a man who is a virgin not really a man?

30 Days Without Social Media: The Wrap Up

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Collin Slattery learns which kinds of connections fulfill, and which are unsatisfying in comparison, in his experiment in avoiding social media.

Where’s My Burning Ant-Glove?

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Painful rituals arm us against the panic of real, coming-of-age crisis situations.

10 Ways to Get a Woman to Leave Your Apartment

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Avoiding intimacy the morning after, in ten easy steps.

Out of the 18-24 Demographic Forever

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Twenty-five is an age of late night anxiety attacks and epiphanies, and hangovers that are beginning to last a second day.

Top 9 Money Questions to Ask Your Partner Before You Get Married

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Getting on the same page with your mate on money matters is better done before marriage than after.

Enjoy the Ride

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Atalwin has traveled the world to discover ‘the only terrain that is still relatively unexplored is the journey inwards.’

The Crossroads of Quarter-Life: Withstanding the Conventional Wisdom

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The conventional wisdom on work, house, and kids doesn’t necessarily fit today’s quarter-life lifestyles.

Nineteen

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A gentleman not yet twenty, on the yokes of masculinity, maturity, and civility.

Odd Jobbing

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There’s a reason they call Economics “the dismal science.”

Dating While Broke

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Dating takes time and money. What’s a hard-working, single man to do?

Becoming Who You Want to Be (When You Grow Up)

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Who do you want to be when you grow up?

What’s a Man To Do? New Work for 2012 and Beyond

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Find the new good life.

White Out

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Aaron Gilbreath finds himself driving too fast through a fog that forms in seconds.

Growing Up, Not Getting Older

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I tell my son, and I will tell my daughter, that playing dress up begins when you’re five and never truly ends.