The Beauty of Body Mapping
Our bodies change. So should the way we explore them. They say if you’ve spent 10,000 hours practicing a particular skill, you’re...
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Karin Jones
- Apr 2, 2020
- 7 min
Love in the Time of CoronaVirus
Has social isolation made you reconsider your loving priorities? Just as CoronaVirus was overwhelming the world, I burst into tears while...
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Karin Jones
- Jan 14, 2020
- 5 min
On Asking (and Listening)
"If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving one be me." W.H. Auden Last year I made a simple, low risk New Year’s resolution: I...
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Karin Jones
- Sep 27, 2019
- 5 min
The Fascination Equation
The Special Sauce of love may simply be staying fascinated with your partner I used to have a few rules about the men I ‘liked’ on dating...
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Karin Jones
- Jun 5, 2019
- 6 min
On Being Out of Love
Too often when love ends, the people who adore us will insist we’re still wonderful and the person who left us the idiot. Think again.
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Karin Jones
- Apr 25, 2019
- 5 min
Your Brain on Love & Loss
High on love or felled by loss? It's simply temporary insanity I once developed a crush on a married man so consuming I could barely...
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Karin Jones
- Mar 26, 2019
- 5 min
After Infidelity - On Walking Through Fire
Not every marriage is worth saving. But no marriage deserves to be abandoned during the most stressful point in its lifetime. I recently...
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Karin Jones
- Feb 10, 2019
- 4 min
Midlife Dating - It's an Attitude
It doesn't get any better than dating at midlife. Trust me If I were a drinking buddy of ‘Stella Gray’, The Guardian newspaper’s 50...
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Karin Jones
- Jan 16, 2019
- 4 min
The Infidelity Files - Part 1
Is the one who strays the only cheat? 2018 was my year of dubious honor. The New York Times publish my essay, ‘What Sleeping With Married...
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Karin Jones
- Dec 19, 2018
- 5 min
The Thermodynamics of Love
Is your relationship stable? Consider its chemistry.
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Karin Jones
- Oct 8, 2017
- 4 min
The Four Horsemen: How to Spot Trouble in Your Relationship
Conflict, not compatibility, will tell you what you really need to understand about your partner I’ve done most of my internet dating...
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Karin Jones
- Dec 14, 2016
- 4 min
The Gift of Generosity
I once arrived late to a school bake sale with my son who, when he discovered everything with chocolate had already been purchased, burst...
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Karin Jones
- Nov 30, 2016
- 4 min
The Desire Divide
Pick (up) on someone your own age I know a talented, vivacious, woman living in Greenwich Village, who creates fixed and ephemeral art...
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Karin Jones
- Sep 22, 2016
- 4 min
The Anatomy of Attachment
Your limbic system is telling you how to love. Listen carefully. I once dated a man who asked me, during our first online conversation,...
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Karin Jones
- Sep 9, 2016
- 4 min
Friends With All Sorts of Benefits
Dating isn't just for the romantically inclined A few months ago I went to Paris on the Eurostar simply because tickets were so damn...
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Karin Jones
- Aug 11, 2016
- 3 min
Are You Practicing the Magic Ratio?
Your five a day isn't just about fruit and veg Romanticism has done heaps of harm when it comes to living a successful love life. Yes,...
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Karin Jones
- Aug 4, 2016
- 3 min
Speak Your Body Language
On becoming non-verbally articulate The other day a friend of mine was sighing over how too many women strain his patience when it comes...
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Karin Jones
- Jul 28, 2016
- 4 min
Get Pissed With Your Jealousy (Or How to Make Jealousy a Comedy Not a Tragedy)
Oh, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on. - Iago to Othello A few years ago,...
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Karin Jones
- Jul 21, 2016
- 4 min
Polyamory or Polyfuckery
Can more than two be equals in love? When I started internet dating, I was quite clear: ”Jealous types need not apply. I like variety.”...
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Karin Jones
- Jul 14, 2016
- 5 min
The Paradox of Choice
When it comes to online dating, will abundant choice lead to love or drive us mad? When I found myself, at 49, suddenly single, I was...
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