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2012 is sure to be your lucky year for love!
Are you ready to meet that someone special this year?

I get excited to sit down and write my New Year's resolutions. I put on cozy pajamas, light a fire, pour myself a glass of red wine and open my laptop. Before I start typing, I take a deep breath, close my eyes and breathe - an important pause because this is the moment of truth. This is when I look back and get "real' about my life. I acknowledge what is working and admit to myself what isn't. And I think about what I want. Not what my parents, my kids or my friends want me to want - but what I want. Am I living up to my own expectations? Am I doing my best? Am I accomplishing things that matter? Is my life going in a good direction? And the most important question of all, am I truly happy?

I sit and stare at the blank screen. The wine eventually helps with my writer's block, and words begin to flow. Two glasses later, my mission is accomplished. I head up to bed smiling; knowing that this year will be a good one. I'm

The Open Road Can Lead To Love Or Disaster-Especially On A Week Long First Date!

"I am not going on this trip as some sort of half-baked internet blind date and I know you're not going on it to get into my pants."

Thus spoke my road trip companion in a last-minute attempt to calm my nerves over what I was increasingly realizing sounded like a hare-brained plan-spend a week driving across the country with a man I knew only through social media. To be fair, the nay-sayers, head-shakers and tongue-waggers had a point. Two young, single strangers embarking on a road trip across the country? Doesn't that just have Katherine Heigl or a bad slasher-film ending stamped all over it? And really, if we'd been meeting as the culmination of some grand e-passion, that would be easier to understand and explain. The truth was much more benign, at least initially.

Both writers, my travel partner (@jamesforeman) and I (@generationmeh) had been introduced to each other's work through a mutual acquaintance. We read each other's blogs; we started bantering on

Guess what most singles wished for this holiday season.

Who needs a job when you have love? Granted, love isn't going to pay the bills, but if you believe every love song ever written and every romantic comedy to grace the silver screen, then love is the most important thing of all. Whatever helps you sleep at night…

Match.com recently surveyed their members to see what singles wish for this holiday season. On the top of wish lists this year was that special someone to bring home for the holidays, at 46%, and even though we're still in a recession and wanting a job should be paramount for some, only 29% of those polled put a new job at the top of their holiday must-have list. It leaves one to wonder exactly when people's priorities got so out of whack. I guess we can thank Mariah Carey and Love, Actually for this wonkiness.

The stress of being single during the holidays even forces some people to lie to their friends and families about their relationship status, or rather lack thereof. Men, at 29.9%, admitted to telling their parents

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