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Relationship Articles

Relationships: What Do Women Want?
Publish Date: 6/24/08
By: Deborrah Cooper

Jokes on this subject are plentiful. "What is the smallest book in the world?" Answer: What Men Know About Women!" Men all over the world scratch their heads in dismay and ask each other "what do women want?" Even the learned Sigmund Freud, re ...

Is Your Relationship Under Too Much Pressure?
Publish Date: 1/23/08
By: De'Laney Rowland, BDO Staff Writer

You meet a guy and within ten minutes you've decided if this is a guy you can see yourself marrying or not. Go on, admit it. We all want to find that one special person who can connect with us, who care for us, who make us laugh, who drive us cr ...

Why He's Not the Marrying Type
Publish Date: 12/31/07
By: Jim Sulski

Brendan and Sharon have been dating since the late 1980s, when they met in college. Every holiday, every birthday, every major event, Sharon was on pins and needles. Would Brendan finally pop the question, produce a ring and ask her to marry him? ...

Death of loved one especially hard at holidays
Publish Date: 11/26/07
By: Ginger Swan

The Rev. Charles Alexander is licensed as both a professional counselor and a marriage and family therapist. He holds master's degrees from Duke University in divinity and pastoral psychology. Alexander was executive director of United Methodist P ...

JUANITA BYNUM: Breaking Her Silence, Once Again
Publish Date: 11/07/07
By: Karu F. Daniels

Juanita Bynum has an uncanny way of putting things into perspective. And because of that, the revered televangelist has built an ever-expanding loyal following through her various religious endeavors. When the Chicago native and former hair dre ...

Afraid to Commit: Young Men Want to Wait on Marriage
Publish Date: 10/01/07
By: MSN .com

They want kids, houses and sex. And they want women, too -- but not in the form of wives. Not until they're older. So says the latest study to probe the minds of America's young men, aged 25 to 33. The study found 10 reasons men won't commit -- fr ...

More Black Women Consider 'Dating Out'
Publish Date: 8/15/07
By: Dionne Walker

For years, Toinetta Jones played the dating game by her mom's strict rule. "Mom always told me, 'Don't you ever bring a white man home,'" recalled Jones, echoing an edict issued by many Southern, black mothers. But at 37, the Alexandria divorcee has ...

Making marriage last
Publish Date: 8/15/07
By: John Johnston - The Cincinatti Enquirer

About 70 percent of African-American women do not live with a spouse, the Census Bureau says. That's the direction in which Monica Blackwell-Harper once saw herself headed. Although she wanted children, "I didn't want to get married," the 35-year- ...

Movie Clip Stirs Debate over Black Relationships
Publish Date: 6/19/07
By: Allison Keyes (NPR)

A clip from the upcoming film Diary of a Tired Black Man is generating a great deal of buzz in the African-American community. The scene features a man arriving at the house of his former spouse with a new partner: a white woman. The clip has been ...