Quitting: 4/27

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It’s just not true that quitters never win.

Sleeping Together: The Good Life’s Top Ten in March

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Readers of The Good Life flock to the truth about sleeping together, and what we really want from women.

12 Tips For Dads on the Verge of Divorce

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Bruce Buccio survived his divorce and learned to make a better life for himself and his kids. Here he offers 12 tips to help newly separated fathers build a good life for themselves and their children.

Keep It Civil: 10 Ways to Tactfully End a Relationship

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Nicole Johnson offers ten ways to end a relationship with class and composure.

Splashing in Puddles: How to Be a Father to Your Daughter

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Advice from a father of five daughters: Prioritize your daughter’s interests as if they were your own, and you will succeed at parenting.

Things I’d Like to Change About Myself

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Here are Tom Matlack’s notes to himself. What are yours?

The Aggressive Happiness Method

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Shawn Maxam answers the question “How do we achieve Happiness?”.

The Secret to Living a Happy Life

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Shawn Maxam shares the key to happy living.

Men Need to Learn to Ask For Help

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Andrew Smiler discusses the importance of men asking for help, and why “going it alone” can only do harm.

Slow Sex: The Art and Craft of the Female Orgasm

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“The benefits of orgasm can have a huge ripple effect.” Slow Sex: The Art and Craft of the Female Orgasm, by Nicole Daedone. A book review.

Act Like A Lady, Think Like A Dumbass

So, apparently advice books –> movies is the new thing? Presumably started by the execrable He’s Just Not That Into You, one of the few movies to pass neither the Bechdel Test nor the Reverse Bechdel Test*, the trend includes What To Expect When You’re Expecting, which in a triumph of sexism does not appear [...]

Feminist Lessons From the Seduction Community, Part Two: Self-Help Versus Misogyny

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Clarisse Thorn continues her exploration into the world of the Pickup Artist and finds a confused, often conflicting culture.

Porn Addiction Is Not Sex Addiction, and Why That’s Important

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Gary Wilson and Marnia Robinson call attention to the dangerous consequences of the misconception that porn addiction and sex addiction are synonymous.

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Bill O’Reilly has his wife’s boyfriend investigated by police, Mayor Bloomberg’s Spanish inspires El Bloombito, and Gilbert Arenas is misogynistic on Twitter.

How ‘The American Book of the Dead’ Saved My Life

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After his mother died, Matt Lawrence received gifts of self help books — both of which he resented greatly.