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...boyfriends? Davilman: My belief is that people tell you who they are in the first five minutes. Most people have expectations and needs and an idea of how they want their life to be, and they will only hear what they want to hear to make someone else fit into their idea. Sometimes you go through this entire relationship only to find out that you should have paid attention to the person they told you they were in the first place. You ignored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Makes a Bad Boyfriend? | 2/23/2009 | See Source »

...told him? Davilman: Yes, and I have yet to hear back from him. But it wasn't a bad story! He doesn't look bad in it. We just didn't fit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Makes a Bad Boyfriend? | 2/23/2009 | See Source »

...women settle for these men if they know they aren't the right fit? Davilman: That's the thing - I don't know. You don't walk into a store and see a broken toaster and go, "Aw, well, when I get it home, it will start working." You don't go, "Oh, that dress - the sleeve is falling off. But I can fix it at home." No, you want a dress that fits. You want a toaster that works. But women - and I guess men too - are so willing to take the broken one. (Watch a video about dating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Makes a Bad Boyfriend? | 2/23/2009 | See Source »

...romantic classification to hundreds of “friends,” many of whom are brief acquaintances or, at worst, complete strangers.With its unapologetic eschewal of nuance, Facebook pressures us to define our relationships and display the results for all to see. Yet relationships, like people, do not fit neatly into predefined categories. The premium that Facebook places on categorization has only exacerbated our societal obsession with affixing arbitrary labels to relationships and calculating our self-worth accordingly. For many women, “boyfriends” serve as status symbols, offering definitive proof of one?...

Author: By Courtney A. Fiske | Title: Relationship Status on Facebook: | 2/23/2009 | See Source »

...While it’s mildly annoying that we must now pay for food, drinks and checked baggage—which is usually our only option when overhead compartments are too small or flights are so full that we can barely fit our carry-on bags in the space provided—any slack in the system of efficient service is even more distressing...

Author: By Ayse Baybars | Title: Hard Times, High Fares | 2/22/2009 | See Source »

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