It’s normal to want to define a relationship. For your own sake, you need to know whether or not you should continue putting your eggs in other baskets (and keeping your toothbrush at other guys’ places). Plus, next time your mom asks you if you have a boyfriend you’d like to be able to say, […]

It’s not necessarily the phrase that I despise, but what it stands for: a checklist of criteria by men that women should hope to live up to if they want to get married.

Before you find “the one,” you’ll date a bunch of other ones.