These ladies are not having it.

The other night I was talking with friends about how awkward it is to meet people at bars. The women in the conversation were sharing their frustration with the whole "getting the number" process. They feel they have to give their number out to be friendly (and to get a guy to go away if he's hitting on her). But some guys make it tough for girls to be nice.

The common move among guys (I'm guilty of this one too), after getting a girl's number, is calling her phone to confirm that that it's real and that his number is now registered in her phone. Most guys will watch the girl's phone as they call it to make sure there's no funny business going on. Essentially, cell phones have made it impossible for a girl to give a guy the wrong number.

The best way for a girl to avoid that awkward first date is to not give her number out in the first place. As a guy, I know the ins and outs of the phone number game. If a cute girl is giving me any sign of hope, I'm going to try for

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When the sex begins to dwindle (it will) and the obligations start to pile up (they do), rather than settle, sweetly shock your husband. By Anne Roderique-Jones, REDBOOK.

Give him a date, not an obligation
Between driving the kids to school, meetings, and housework - and that's before noon - keeping things fresh often gets put on the back burner. Make it a priority by tricking him into a sweet surprise. Jessie Dillon of Dallas, TX, and her husband are always trying to get each other to run errands. "It seems that if I'm not asking him to pick up the dry cleaning, I'm having him meet my family for lunch," she says. "Recently, I decided to surprise him by having him 'meet me to have his suit tailored.' He begrudgingly agreed, and when he showed up, I handed him two tickets to a baseball game so that we could enjoy his idea of a great afternoon."

Celebrate him for no reason
Men like to feel like king of the castle, but often consider themselves neglected between the carpooling, cleaning

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We were sitting on a stoop on my old 9th Street block. It was a summer Saturday night, and we were eating a carton of Ben & Jerry's with plastic spoons, waiting for someone to high-five us. This game was my idea: I haven't been in the East Village once in the last year without a stranger on the street putting his palm in front of me, his button-down shirt often slightly open regardless of the weather, yelling "Give me five!"

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Within minutes a young business-type gingerly put his hand ahead of him as he passed us. His fingers brushed mine. My companion looked at me incredulously, and I laughed. This was a good first date. We'd already gotten a little Champagne-drunk at Balthazar hours before landing here, with Cherry Garcia in tow.

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He'd been following me on Instagram for months - we had good friends in common though I'd never seen him before. I followed him

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Match.com is facing a $10 million lawsuit.Nevada woman Mary Kay Beckman is suing Match.com for 10 million dollars for negligence after a man she met on the site and dated for 10 days tried to kill her after she broke up with him. She claims the site didn't do enough to warn her about the dangers of meeting "an individual whose intentions are not to find a mate, but to find victims to kill or rape."

After reading about Beckman's terrifying ordeal, our first thoughts were "we're surprised this doesn't happen more often." 40 million people in the U.S. have tried online dating, according to Statistic Brain. As it turns out, several women have been victims of violence at the hands of men they met through online dating sites.

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In April 2011, Carol Markin filed suit against Match.com after a man she met on the site sexually assaulted her. She filed a civil suit against Match that would force them "to install a sex offender screening program that scans a members' background when

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Dating in the tapestry days.By Chiara Atik for HowAboutWe

This post is the second in a series. Previously: In Defense of Millennials, Part 1.

The growing perception of Modern Dating for women is that it's a chaotic, directionless spiral away from commitment and into drunken hookups and futility.

But, honestly? Women today don't have it bad when it comes to dating. In fact, we have it pretty wonderful. The reason, of course, is freedom - we have the power, and tools, to have our dating life be however we'd like it to be.

For centuries and centuries, a woman's lot in life was based entirely on the supposition that she would get married, and the sooner the better. In the middle ages, a girl would live in her parents house until the ripe old age of 15 or so, at which point her father would march her down the aisle and hand her off to a husband. The next 25 years would be spent getting pregnant, narrowly escaping death during childbirth, and picking out new tapestries for the castle great room, or

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Getty ImagesTiger Woods is in the news again but it's not for his golf game. It's because he's reportedly dating a new woman, 28-year-old Olympic skier Lindsey Vonn.

But Vonn isn't a porn star, like so many of Woods' ex-paramours. Nor is she a model like Woods' former wife, Elin Nordegren. She's a four-time World Cup championship winner. She doesn't need Tiger's fame or money and she doesn't exactly court the media. So, why the hell is she dating Tiger Woods? For that matter, why would anyone?

Tiger isn't the first or only man who's behaved despicably only to be beckoned into the forgiving arms of a new woman. Take Charlie Sheen. Let's put aside for a moment his well publicized drug addiction, his alleged propensity for trashing hotel rooms, and his affinity for porn stars. In 1990, Sheen's loaded gun, which he carried around in his pants pocket for inexplicable reasons, went off while his then-fiance actress Kelly Preston was picking up his pants, injuring her in the arm. After the two broke up, Read More »from Why The Hell Would Anyone Date Tiger Woods?

Are You Using Social Media to Brag About Your Relationship?Ok. I get it, not everyone wants to know that I have the best husband ever or that he surprised me and brought home my favorite dessert. But do you care to know that he bought me some bling or that he is sending me to the spa this weekend? No? Good. Because he didn't and he's not but he's welcome to do so. Let's just be clear about that.

There is a thin line between sharing and bragging, and social media makes it hard to tell sometimes. For some it really is just sharing. Our family and friends love to see whatever we are tweeting, posting or instagraming. I mean realistically, if they don't want to see it they can un-friend or un-follow. If you don't want to see photos of my children or my husband over and over, you have every right to make sure that my feed no longer pops up each time you sign on.

For those of us who are keen on sharing whatever it is we choose to share, what is our reason for doing it? I am asking myself by the way because the article I read by Your Tango

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Taylor Swift performing live.Taylor Swift cannot write a bad pop song. She apparently can't write a song about anything other than breakups, either. While we are shameless Swifties, we'd definitely like to see her branch out more - if not to different subject matter, then at least to some more honest, less PG-13 tales of heartbreak. Here are some examples of the kind of breakup songs we'd love to see on her next platinum album:

1. "Should Have Said the Safeword"
2. "I May Miss You But My Cervix Won't (Jackhammer)"
3. "Pee on Me? Shame on You"
4. "GGG, OMG"
5. "You're Vanilla, I'm Kinky, I Love You, Farewell"
6. "Don't Leave Me Breathless (The Erotic Asphyxiation Song)"
7. "My Ears Are Not a Steering Wheel"
8. "I Didn't Wet the Bed, Der (Get Some Sex Ed, Sir)"
9. "Faked It Every Time"
10. "Size Doesn't Matter (But That Don't Mean I Won't Sing About It)"

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