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True Love – at Every Age!
True love can strike at any age – sounds perfectly logical. Whether your first romance is the love of your life or if you fall in love again later in life – feelings don’t care about numbers.
On the other hand, love at any age might mean sex at any age, and society finds that difficult to handle. This touching report about love and sex in old age homes narrates the true story of a couple who not only rediscovered true love, but also their sexuality, at a very late stage in life.
On the one hand, it’s a tragic romance, because the lovers are separated. On the other hand, it’s a beautiful testament to love and its power to knock you off your feet, no matter how old you are – it can make an 82- and a 95-year-old as happy as a couple of teenagers.
Who’s Your Match? You Decide!
Deciding on your perfect match is not always easy. Especially when you’re online dating you often feel like there’s more than one good match. It’s tempting to keep those options open, for fear of making the wrong decision. A Massachusets Instituts of Technology study has shown that this type of behaviour is not only typical of online dating – it’s also exhibited by people making decisions in an abstract computer game.
Each player had the possibility to earn money by clicking on the right doors. They could click the doors as they wished, but the clicks were limited to 100, so a quick decision paid off. Still, players kept returning to less profitable doors for fear of losing that option.
That sounds very abstract, but the initiator of the study draws the parallel to relationships. It makes sense to decide on a partner once you have found a great match. Instead of keeping your options open, you should then close all other doors. This makes you more satisfied with your choice and helps you move on to new decisions.
So, if you think you might have found your perfect match through online dating, make your decision and close those other doors!
Mixtapes from Ex-Boyfriends
We were thrilled to discover that the mixtape genre has been revived online, no doubt to the joy of young lovers. Now we’re even more thrilled about a new blog dedicated to a subcategory of mixtapes for lovers: mixtapes from ex-boyfriends. Okay, some of them are mixtapes from girlfriends, but generally it’s boys who make mixtapes. 
Unlike most blogs of this type, the style of writing is beautiful, almost literary, and the posts bring back that feeling of being young and in love, complete with goosebumps from listening to the mixtape from your lover for the first time. The music selection is also pretty fantastic – no trace of Celine Dion – and you can listen to each tape in its entirety.
Seeking a Good Wife?
Seeking a good wife? Then build yourself a time machine, because the demands on a good wife obviously used to be a lot higher. Boing Boing found a questionnaire from the 30s which rates a good wife according to her behaviour, made up of positive and negative scores.
Hardly surprising: today, not even a “good wife” passes the test. But then most men probably wouldn’t consider it a major drawback if a woman doesn’t dress for breakfast (!) and most could probably deal with a woman who wears red nail polish (that CHEAP hussy!).
Actually, cancel the time machine, just try seeking a good wife who is also a modern woman and you’ll be fine 
When Gifts of Love are No Longer Loved
Jewellery is a typical gift in relationships – from cheap charm bracelets to diamond engagement rings, jewellery is traditionally a gift of love. But while you could dump the charm bracelet in a shoebox when your first love dumped you, it’s a lot harder to deal with more valuable gifts. Most people don’t want to wear gems that remind them of a failed relationship. On the other hand, it’s a shame to let them gather dust at the back of jewellery box and flushing them down the toilet doesn’t seem like the best idea once the initial anger has evaporated. Then what to do eith expensive, unloved tokens of love?
You could sell jewellery from a failed relationship on a new website, which specialises in jewellery from ex-lovers. Each piece gives you the article description, the price and the back story of the failed relationship. This gives the sellers the possibility to not only rid themselves of these reminders of love gone wrong, but also to get closure on the failed relationship.
