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March 22nd, 2006
Surviving my husband's heart attack
At 11pm on February 9th my husband started with pain in his chest. At midnight he woke me up and said, "I don't think I'm ok." We drove ...
March 6th, 2006
Give up yourself this Lent and strengthen your relationships at the same time
At age 16, I told my father I was giving up going to church for Lent. At 19, I told him I was giving up my virginity for Lent. In the ...
February 18th, 2006
How Can Churches Help Young Catholics Find Their Match?
So you're single and looking for love. What's on your list? Does she have to be beautiful, smart and funny? Does he have to be caring, tall and handsome? What about the bigger things: Does ...
February 6th, 2006
Pure Sex Pure Love #20
A few weeks ago Pope Benedict delivered his first encyclical — a papal letter to the universal Church — entitled Deus Caritas Est (God is Love). OK, so he probably ...
January 23rd, 2006
The M-Bomb
Conventional wisdom has it that a woman, ever-obsessed with getting married, starts pairing her first name with his last name before the end of date #1—and will ...
January 9th, 2006
Turn Your Cablight On: Advice for Catholic Dating from a Jewish New York City Dating Expert
Certain religions seem to be more interested in helping young adults date within their faith. Every synagogue seems to have a matchmaker. For those in the Mormon faith, every big city ...
December 15th, 2005
A Look at Intercultural Relationships
On Christmas Eve, after returning from the Catholic children's service, my family and I will sit down to a dinner of 7 vegetarian dishes. The main course will be ...
November 15th, 2005
Advice on love and marriage from those who've been there and done it
As a relationship columnist, people often ask me for advice, and, most of the time, I've got a lot to say. I've got plenty of opinions on topics ranging ...
November 3rd, 2005
This Thing Called Love
The Beatles sang "All you need is love," but didn't give us a whole lot more to work with. Movies, novels and television shows all offer their own interpretation ...
October 17th, 2005
WARNING: Quizzes in Women's Magazines May Be Harmful to Your Relationship
Do you enjoy having houseplants, but your boyfriend thinks they should be kept outside? Does she prefer subtitles at foreign films, but you prefer dubbed voice? And do you ...
October 14th, 2005
How I stopped dating and started living
Two years ago, at the age of thirty, I decided I was tired of waiting for the right guy to come along and made what some people think is a radical choice. Instead of getting ...
October 7th, 2005
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
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
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 11th, 2005
"Pay It Forward"
Kim Statkevicus had it all. A successful, loving husband, a great house in the suburbs, a 13 month old son and another child on the way—the picture ...
September 10th, 2005
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
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 13th, 2005
Struggling with chastity as an adult
I still recall being fifteen and my best-friend Katie asking me the question, would you would be willing to sleep with someone you weren't married to? I hadn't thought much ...
July 7th, 2005
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
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 ...
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