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Feeling Invisible? A Few Suggestions

Maybe it’s like this when you’re married, too. The ghostly feeling that you’re not noticed as an attractive, sexual being, no matter how much you get dolled up. I’m aware of it during dating slumps, like now, when even the loser guys on Match who used to wink from small towns in Georgia, have fallen away. Here are 5 tips:

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10 Romantic Comedies I Don’t Hate

This is hard to believe, but I have a friend, a straight man, who LOVES romantic comedies, and sees them all. He used to ask me to come along, then I’d roll my eyes, he’d call me a snob, I’d question his taste, and we’d go off to our corners to sulk. The truth is, I’m a sucker for happy endings in a love story, like most of humanity, but I can’t relax into films that ask me to suspend my disbelief so much so as to require a lobotomy. Occasionally, there are romcoms that I actually enjoy. Here are ten of my favorites, post 1960 (in no particular order). What are yours?

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