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8.23.10

The Wisdom of Siblings: Just Make Out For, Like, Five Years

Take it slow, be honest...and careful with Facebook!

Guests talk about advice they've given - or wish they'd given - to younger family members. [12 min 39 sec]

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5.03.10

If You Could Interview Your Mom, What Would You Want to Know?

Mothers know a lot about our love lives, even if we haven’t told them much. But what do we know about theirs?

For Mother’s Day, we asked young women to interview their mothers about past and present relationships and their hopes and expectations for their daughters. Listen to what these pairs had to say and share your own stories and advice in the comments! [18 min 28 sec]

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March 15th 2010

The IUD, As Seen on TV!

- Sex and Media Team

Alicia Florrick is so much more than The Good Wife (Tuesdays, 10p, on CBS). She’s a good mom, a good lawyer, a good dresser, smart, calm, and cool. She was hit broadside by allegations (and admissions) that her husband was sleeping with prostitutes and taking bribes in his post as state’s attorney and she’s picking up the pieces of her life, her family and her career.

February 22nd 2010

Dating Violence: Not Just “Their” Problem

- Laura Sessions Stepp

Last week, the University of Oregon’s highly-touted running back, LaMichael James, was charged with strangling, assaulting and harassing his girlfriend.

Misdemeanor charges.

That’s all?

Pushed her down in a public parking lot.

Didn’t anyone see it?

We don’t know. Because from what I can tell from news clips and blogs, no reporter asked.

2.22.10

Confronting Dating Violence

Sometimes a relationship can turn violent. How can you get out of it? Are there signs you should have seen? What can friends and family do to help? Is there anything you can do to avoid an abusive relationship in the first place? In honor of Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month, we talked to two young women who experienced dating violence beginning in their teens - and to one expert with good advice for all of us.

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January 19th 2010

Forms of Love: Friends, Family, Flames

- Laura Sessions Stepp

With Valentine’s Day less than a month away, it’s a good time to think about love. Not falling in love; that’s easy. Our body’s chemistry takes care of that.

No, it’s the what-comes-after-the-goopy-cards that I want to talk about: the loving. That’s what scares us. It consumes time, drains our emotions, and makes us vulnerable to hurt and loss. So why do we get sucked in, again and again? Because we are creatures who attach. Two recent TV documentaries expand on this.