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How to Ask for What You Want in a Relationship
Featured Video - Health, Health, TV MamiDo you find yourself flubbing your words or cursing at your significant other when asking for what you want? Then we have the video for you! Sujeiry Gonzalez, relationship expert and writer, gives us some great tips on how to ask for what you…
Pheromone Parties: Love at First Sniff
Life, Love & Relationships
If you think online dating is not intimate enough; if you miss the good old days of straight up tangy humanity, and if you long for an earthy, nitty-gritty alternative to mate-finding in today’s over-digitized world—behold (or rather…
Fear Of Saying ‘I Love You’
Life, Love & Relationships
The first time I told a man that I loved him I did it with pen and paper. I was an 18 year-old freshman at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and I was shamelessly 'in love' with the biggest slut on campus. So I did what any 18-year-old…
Vanity and Your Latino Man
Life, Love & Relationships
For the last forty-five minutes I've been waiting for my turn at the bathroom mirror. You may think, Ah, teenage daughter? But no, I don't even have a teenage daughter and my two sons have their own bathroom. I'm sitting on the bed, half-dressed,…
Common Sense Do's & Don’ts of Online Dating
Life, Love & Relationships
I have a profile on Match.com. There, I said it! But I don't check it often as I don’t pay to use the service and that limits my options. In fact, as a proud Latina, I refuse to pay money for an online service to meet men. I doubt my soul…
When Moms Judge the Men We Date
Life, Love & Relationships
On every birthday, Mami kisses me on the cheek, hugs me tight, and lists the wishes she prays will come true. “I wish you good health, success, lots of money, and a husband that loves you and treats you with respect. And that will do anything…
William Levy: The Perfect Man? Yes! Yes!
Entertainment, Life
Let’s get right to the point. Cuban-born actor and model William Levy is hot. And, no, I don’t mean hot in any of the clichéd Mexican-food-reference ways that far too many mentally lazy mainstream journalists are employing about him at…
I Survived Domestic Abuse & Violence
Life, Love & Relationships
“Chris Brown, you can beat me!” some young girls tweeted. I was equal parts shocked, frightened, and disappointed. I’ve also seen the many jokes about Chris Brown’s abuse of former girlfriend and collaborator, Rihanna. I get that…
The Top 10 Most Romantic Movies
Entertainment, Life
Valentine’s Day is right around the corner, and for many of us this means a romantic night out poured into our best Freakum Dress. But alas, some of us are single, and others have kids but no available babysitters. So we spend Valentine’s…