Author Archive for Laura Schreffler
Laura Schreffler is a former New York Daily News columnist who left the world of celebrity behind to focus on what makes her happiest — love and travel. She is the creator of LoveTrekker.com — a website devoted to these two passions that she fondly calls “looking for love in all the right places.” In her spare time she likes to play matchmaker for her friends, dream about her next vacation and gaze at photographs of Taylor Kitsch. For more advice on love, relationships, and happiness, check out www.lovetrekker.com. And follow her here at Happiness Series with her weekly blog “Happiness in Love.”
Happiness in Love… Exercise!
Exercise makes you happy in love as well as in life I love to work out. I know, I know, I’m a freak of nature. The endorphin rush I get from a good run or a marathon session on the Elliptical always leaves me feeling euphoric. To me, it is well worth having frizzy hair [...]
Happiness in Love… Marriage vs. Travel
Why We’d Rather See The World Than Settle Down Believe it or not, quenching your thirst for travel is substantially more important than silencing your biological clock these days. Or so claims a recent study by Bing, which found that modern-day women (and men) would much rather fulfill their travel goals before settling down to [...]
Happiness in Love… Pleasure & Pain
THE ALLURE OF FIFTY SHADES OF GREY If you haven’t yet heard of Fifty Shades of Grey, you’re probably living under a rock…or chained up in a basement. This is the smut novel to end all smut novels, and women everywhere are falling for its enigmatic, mysterious, sadistic (and sad) leading man, Christian Grey. Author [...]
Happiness in Love… Weddings
Why Do We Place So Much Importance On Weddings? I have never been one of those girls who’s dreamed of a big, white wedding since I was old enough to play with Bridal Barbie. In fact, I’ve never particularly had a desire to get married at all. Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell have it right: [...]
Happiness in Love – Love vs. Money
Would you choose love…or money? With tax day come and gone, I can safely breathe again. Another year, another return. Yada yada yada. But after seeing the results of a recent Chemistry.com survey on the importance of love vs. money, I had to do a little thinking about what mattered most to me. My answer, [...]
Happiness in Love… Superheroes
Why Women Need Superheroes Like Ryan Gosling When I heard that Ryan Gosling saved a journalist’s life, I wasn’t surprised. A guy who consistently wears his heart on his sleeve in films like The Notebook and Blue Valentine has to be a hero. He’s too good, too worthy too…perfect. And every single one of us [...]
Happiness in Love… Abstinence
Does Abstinence Make the Heart Grow Fonder? Why wait? A big to-do is being made over nothing this month…literally. Abstinence has been a hot topic of conversation lately and I, for one, am not on board with it. Why deny yourself pleasure? By definition, abstinence is: ‘The fact or practice of restraining oneself from indulging [...]
Happiness in Love: Men are like…
Why Men Are Like Fruit Flies When you’re down in the dumps, what do you do? Me, I grab a sappy movie like Sleepless in Seattle or Love, Actually, that will make me feel even worse that I already do, a bottle of Barefoot Pinot Noir and cupcakes/candy/frozen yogurt. I sit my not-so-bony butt in [...]
Happiness in Love… Kids?
My Friends Are Having Kids….So Why Am I Still Acting Like One? I’m not going to pretend for the sake of an article that I really know what it’s like to have friends with kids. I have male friends that act like giant babies and two former sorority sisters who’ve done a nice job populating [...]
Happiness in Love… Linsanity
Jeremy Lin + Linsanity + The Dating World He was virtually unheard of just a few weeks ago, but now it seems that the entire world has Lin-sanity. This term, of course, has been recently coined to show how just how cray-cray we are for NBA star Jeremy Lin. As with everything else in life, [...]
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The Love Contract Until now, the only ‘love contract’ I’ve ever heard of is what’s called a ‘marriage license’ in most familiar circles. But because of a rise in workplace sexual harassment, certain employers are having their workers sign documents providing written confirmation that any romantic workplace relationship they engage in is voluntary along with [...]
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Ah… Love in the Dating Game Show World We love hopefuls have always been enchanted by dating game shows. There was The Dating Game in 1965, then Jenny McCarthy‘s sassy series, Singled Out, in 1995. The Bachelor has been running for an unfortunate 16 seasons since 2002, spawning knock-offs The Bachelorette and Bachelor Pad. As [...]
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Love is….forgetting to remember your reasons for loving The Vow: A Soulmate Story It’s hard enough finding true love even once in a lifetime, don’t you agree? Though we all play games and jump through hoops to make our relationships work, in the right kind of relationship, everything just works out organically. There’s no confusion [...]
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V DAY When people speak about Valentine’s Day, it is often referred to as a Hallmark holiday, created by the card company for commercial reasons. Men think so because they’re forced to buy embarrassing gifts like pink teddy bears (or embarrass themselves by picking out underwear at Victoria’s Secret), and all single girls think so [...]
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Happiness is… HOPE WE MET ON A PLANE: MISSED CONNECTIONS FOR THE AIRBORNE Don’t you love the thought of meeting a handsome (or beautiful, if you happen to be a man) stranger in the sky? There’s something so romantic about it. Forget the stale air, the tasteless food — or lack of food, as it [...]
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DON’T IGNORE THE SIGNS! TAYLOR SWIFT REVEALS HER RELATIONSHIP RED FLAGS Jake Gyllenhaal made her cry when he told her it’s “Not me, it’s you — and your age” (despite going on a so-adorable-it-made-me-want-to-vomit apple picking date), she’s been cheated on before and Joe Jonas dumped her in a humiliatingly short 27-second phone call. Some [...]
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How To Meet Men Anywhere: Confidence…And A Few Pheromones I felt a bit like Alice in Wonderland yesterday when I opened my mailbox to find a package — no name, no note — including a little black bottle with pretty red writing reading “Erox.” Was I receiving hate mail? Would I grow even smaller than [...]
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Love Is In The Air… Or, It Will Be Ever since I took my first trip to Europe at the age of 17, I’ve had extraordinary luck with my seatmates. I was on a high school trip with the school’s two foreign language professors and ended up sitting far away from my classmates and next [...]
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New Year’s Love Resolutions 2011 was a wonderful, exhilarating year. I fulfilled four life-long dreams — traveling to Australia and Hawaii, sky-diving and bungy-jumping — and learned how to have patience in a relationship that seemed to be worth it. I also learned how and when to cut my losses, as I promised I would. [...]
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Is Christmas Really The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year For Relationships? Beware: the holidays are a danger zone for rocky relationships In 1963, singer Andy Williams oozed holiday cheer as he warbled: “It’s the most wonderful time of the year. There be much mistletoe-ing and hearts will be glowing when loved ones are near.” [...]
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