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What DO We Have In Common? And Does It Matter?
Whenever anyone starts a relationship or meets someone, the first thing people want to know is, “what do you have in common?” On the surface this seems like a good question and one that warrants serious thought. The more I think about it and think about my wife and I, it seems to...
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Featured on the show: 10 Ways to Ruin Your Relationship
Over at the Yahoo! Shine blog, Sarah B. Weir lists 10 ways to ruin your relationship: Ever feel that your relationship suffers from a unique brand of frustration, tension, distance, or any number of other troubling feelings? The reality is, there is struggle in every romance. “If you are experiencing disillusionment, well, join...
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The Dealbreakers That MATTER: 6 Clues He’s a Keeper
If you’re one of the millions of women who are single, dating regularly, and yet you’ve had inconsistent luck in the match game, it may be time to do some introspection. I can’t begin to tell you how often I hear complaints about scarcity of quality guys. I hear it in the dating...
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Words That Wound: 8 things not to say in an argument
For most guys, the very idea of being caught in an emotionally vulnerable moment is… oh, what’s a good word? Nauseating. Literally. Yes, I absolutely mean that if offered a choice between throwing up and admitting that he cried at the end of “The Notebook”, most guys would choose to bury their faces...
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This week on the Straight Male Friend show: actress Andrea Gabriel of Twilight: Breaking Dawn 2 and Lost
This week on the Straight Male Friend Show, Matty and Marcus talk to actress Andrea Gabriel, known for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 and Lost, about her perspective on the differences between the East Coast and West Coast dating scenes. Listen now! Watch our previous interview with her and her...
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Can We Learn from Celebrity Couples?
Celebrity couples have been the target of admonition and admiration for years. The Jekyll and Hyde reaction to whatever the latest or hottest pop culture pairing happens to be, is as over the top as ever. I’ve always theorized that these couples’ break up rates aren’t as dramatically different from the general population....
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Three Life Lessons from Poker Every Woman Should Know
Poker is not the first thing that comes to mind as a source of Big Truths that would make you a better person. When gripped by the need to search for one’s soul, we turn to either religion or Dr. Phil. But, as what the authors I quote here show, poker is not...
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SMF interview: Rami Malek, Angela Sarafyan and Andrea Gabriel from Twilight: Breaking Dawn 2
Marcus Osborne and Matty Staudt talk to Rami Malek, Angela Sarafyan and Andrea Gabriel, the Egyptian Coven from The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 (out now on DVD), about celebrity dating, Lost vs. Twilight fans, racial diversity in casting, and more. Like what each actor would be if they were a...
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Love The Game, Love The Man
Why Men Are Like Baseball This is one of my favorite times of year…. Spring Training for Major League Baseball. In a few short weeks I will be able to go down the street to the Oakland Coliseum to watch my beloved A’s. I also enjoy the fact that although my wife is...
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