Dr. Christine B. Whelan is an author, professor and speaker. She and her husband, Peter, and their dictator cats, Chairman Meow and Evita Purron, live in Pittsburgh. Her book "Why Smart Men Marry Smart Women" is available in stores or at the Halo Store.

	October 7th, 2005 The Road Is Heavily Traveled Now Americans have never lacked for advice. From 17th-century Puritan treatises on avoiding the wrath of God to 21st-century paperbacks on breaking the cycle of codependency, pushy prose has ...
	October 4th, 2005 Pure Sex, Pure Love Growing and Changing in Faith – Together? In our last BustedHalo poll, we asked how you would handle it if your spouse became significantly more—or less—religious. That question seems to have hit a nerve—and I'm not ...
	September 20th, 2005 Pure Sex, Pure Love The L-Word: Why does this simple emotion trip us up all the time? In the midst of a full-on argument with my college boyfriend, I told him I loved him for the first time. He'd been shouting, I'd been crying and yelling, ...
	September 10th, 2005 Pure Sex, Pure Love Facts and Feelings: Why Getting to Know Someone Takes Time -- and Not Just a Background Search In .2 seconds I can do a Google search on anyone. For some people, long lists of hits appear. For others, it'll just be genealogies of random unrelated folks ...
	August 20th, 2005 How Far Is Too Far? If you are committed to remaining a virgin until marriage, where do you draw the line on physical intimacy? Dozens of you responded to our most recent Pure Sex, Pure Love survey about sexual intimacy before marriage-and expressed diverse opinions. Some readers said kissing, handholding and hugging are the only ...
	July 7th, 2005 Pure Sex, Pure Love Is Premarital Sex ALWAYS a Sin? Jen, a 26-year-old BustedHalo reader, was seriously dating her boyfriend when they decided to have sex. This relationship “felt different,” she said, and after a lot of thought, she ...
	June 30th, 2005 Pure Sex, Pure Love Let's Talk About Sex: The Argument for Chastity C.S. Lewis wrote that chastity is the most unpopular of Christian virtues. Yet apparently, we like to talk about it: Dozens of you responded to our BustedHalo survey about ...
	May 1st, 2005 Pure Sex, Pure Love Public displays of affection: Should a woman take her husband's name, and should a man wear a wedding ring? Among the many decisions a couple makes on their way to the altar, two choices are very public—and tell us a lot about changing social norms: Will she take his last name and will ...
	April 20th, 2005 Pure Sex, Pure Love If it’s this difficult, can it really be love? Over dinner recently, a close friend told me she was second-guessing her three-year relationship. While she and her boyfriend were very committed to each other, they had been living in different countries for the last ...
	April 10th, 2005 First Impressions Pure Sex, Pure Love Here's a trick to try out on your next date: During dinner, start playing with something on your side of the table like the salt shaker or the candle. After a little while, gently push ...
	March 29th, 2005 Pure Sex, Pure Love When is the right time to bring up religion in a relationship? Cindy and Peter met in January and they hit it off instantly. They were both into mystery novels and had long dinners debating politics. They started seeing each other twice or three times a week, ...
	March 10th, 2005 Pure Sex, Pure Love Why Girls Watch Sex & the City: It's more than the shoes, boys Last summer, my boyfriend broke up with me. It was one of those almost-perfect relationships where you are well matched in everything, but there's just no spark. Immediately I ...
	March 5th, 2005 Pure sex, Pure Love BustedHalo's new column on dating, relationships and marriage There are more than 4,000 dating and relationship self-help books in print. Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus has sold 30 million copies worldwide. And last month, relationship guru Dr. Phil McGraw hosted ...
	January 30th, 2005 Pure Sex, Pure Love Overqualified for Love: Are high achieving women at a disadvantage when looking for a spouse? Emily is a tall 29-year-old blonde with great fashion sense who knows the bouncers at New York's hippest clubs. She graduated from an Ivy-League university with high honors in ...