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You Said It: The Best Gifts You’ve Ever Received from a Significant Other

From pre-punched coffee cards to toasters to vintage cigarette cards, these are the gifts you loved most — and why.

Just Started Dating & She Says She Doesn’t Need a Gift? Here’s What You Should Get Her Anyway

Yes, even if we insist you don’t need to get us anything for Christmas, you do. (Stick with me here.)

Holiday Hookups: How Did Your Parents Keep You From Having Sex at Their House?

We polled some of HowAboutWe’s friends about their funniest “not under my roof” stories. Check them out and see if yours is worse.

The Ultimate Holiday Dating & Relationships Survival Guide

What gifts should you buy? What are the rules of holiday hookups? We’ve got answers!

5 Bad Dating Habits to Give Up for Lent

What Would Jesus Do?

Adam Lambert’s Guide to Salvaging a Disastrous Family Holiday

While in Finland visiting his boyfriend’s family, Adam Lambert got arrested after a drunken bar fight. How do you rebound and make his family not hate you after that?

9 Reasons Why the Holidays Are the Perfect Time to Jump Into a Relationship

Because going on dates beats being the person who sits at home on a Friday night eating all the chocolate out of a Dollar Store Advent calendar.

Christmas Miracles Do Happen: The Year I Finally Hooked Up With My High School Crush

I felt a Revenge of the Nerds kind of victory as I shot off droll replies to my crush’s earnest questions about living in NYC and acrobatic word plays about classmates. I’d done online dating, and this was called foreplay.