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Vanessa Green (left), lifestyle editor and Renee Sylvestre-Williams (right), Senior Lifestyle editor, tackle the latest issues, from how to reupholster a couch to picking out the perfect pumps, and encourage you to have your say, too.

Renee, a 30-something city dweller, is always on the lookout for shopping deals (current obsession - belts). She is in the process of getting a dog, looking for a condo (preferably on the subway line) and trying to find enough storage space for her shoe collection.

Vanessa "VG" Green currently resides in Toronto's West End and spends her time enjoying fine wines and dive bars. The 20-something aspires to one day become a kind of Tina Fey/Martha Stewart hybrid, but has fears about the supernatural powers such a being would possess. If given the chance, she'd love to make you a steak dinner and unwind while watching old episodes of Felicity.

Lifestyle questions and answers

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  • How do I pull him away from video games to have sex?

    Singles & Dating - 4 hours ago

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    Ever since he got this x-box 360, it's like our sex life is non-existent. I've tried sexy clothes, makeup. I feel like an idiot in our living room dressed up for him to say, "One more match," and fall asleep by myself.
  • okay. me and my boyfriend have been together for almost 2 years. porn is alawys something we have argued about?

    Singles & Dating - 4 hours ago

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    and im done! i dont want to argue anymore. iv told him this amillion times.! but i cant tell if he ihas stopped. last time i found it on his computer about a month and a half ago he was just as upset as i was and disapointed in his self. he knows i hate it. just last night i found more on his computer/ he told me he swears its not his. that it must have been his brother who is 15, he told me he hates seeing me upset. that he only thinks of me and only me. that hes done with that shit as he called it and doesnt want to do it anymore. please dont tell me this is just something boys do. that its normal? thats not the answer im looking for. if he honestly is telling me the truth like hes saying..im to insecure about the subject to beleive him almost. hetold me if he looked at it he wud tell me because he said he wud rather me help him with it then him keep doing it behind my back. he also told me that he has had 4 urges to do it since i found out the last time. he told me that those times he had the urges he just went to bed or jacked off to me. i feel bad cuz i feel i cant trust him. and i also feel bad cuz when i feel like it was him and i get mad and upset he gets mad cuz i dont beleive him. i realy honestly dont know what to do to make my self feel confident about it. hes not one to lie. cheat. or any of that. i mean everyone says it cud be worse ya know? but i dnt want the porn in our relationship. last time what realy got him was...i told him i was gna leave if it didnt stop. a relationship of 2 years is pretty important to just let go like that. i honestly dont think he being hte person he is wud just drop that. can u guys help me? and before u say it i wont whatch it with him! and he has tons of pictures of me and stuff like that. i just want me and him without the porn. not me him and the porn ya know??
  • Me and my boyfriend are ready to have sex?

    Singles & Dating - 6 hours ago

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    Ok me and my boyfriend have been going out a while now and we have spoken to each other about sex. Im 15 and he's 17 and we are both virgins. I AM going to wait until i am 16 in February, and i have a very open close relationship with my mum (thank god) so i have talked to her about it about it and she is going to take me to the doctors to get tested and to go on the pill in February. Well i am posting this question because i want to now will it hurt? He is fairly big (if you know what i mean) lol, about 7 inches erected, he has fingered me and i bled the first few times but i don't anymore when he fingers me now, so does this mean i wont bleed when i have sex? And also is it better for him to go on top for the first time or me???? By the way i would rather not have anyone say im to young because i AM READY and we love each other and want to take our relationship further. x Thank you i just needed to know about the pain is all so im prepared if there is any. lol xx thanks
  • Dose she like me??????

    Singles & Dating - 6 hours ago

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    so the amrocan girl i like blond hair brown eyes allways talkes to me at the lokers and lafhs. today she told me that i pray to much and that the man that im named after was a extrem patrot to germany(he went down with the bismark. i pray to jesus that she likes me (she dosant know). but at hoomrome and at S.S.R. i look at her and she looks at me but for some rison i cant look into her eyes and i have to look away.at the end of the day she told me bye. dose she like me?how can i make her like me?any tips?how do i hint i like her with out telling her?
  • When I was your age... _________ was cool.?

    Singles & Dating - 6 hours ago

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    It's a fill in question of when you were young/lil. What was cool?
  • When people say:"Oh, you make me so mad!"...who do you think cares?

    Singles & Dating - 6 hours ago

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    When you allow yourself to get angry or sad, frustrated or go spastic, what makes you think other people give a damn? You do it for no reason that's obvious to others...we just wonder why you think it's supposed to matter to us!
  • Facebook photos, do you think I am ugly, average or pretty?

    Singles & Dating - 7 hours ago

  • YIKES!!! Should I continue to date him or not?

    Singles & Dating - 7 hours ago

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    He shouts and gets angry for the slightest thing. He is very intolerant. He wants me to send him loving messages all the time, I do but not too many as we have only been dating 6 weeks. I want to take it slowly as I have been hurt before. I bought him presents (perfume, an easter egg, shirts). Sometimes he cancels dates but wants me to be available all the time when it suits him. Once did not show up at all and never called me. He went off for the weekend with his friends witout telling me and had his phone switched off. I was waiting at home for his call. He never apologised but ended up shouting at me that I worried his brother as I phoned his brother asking where he was and his brother didn't know. Yet, he wants me to be available for him when it suits him and gets angry when I am not. He gets angry easily for little things and has a temper. So I am not really sure he is a great guy .... He has no education and works in a factory and ever second week works on the night shift. I am studying for my Masters. His last girlfriends were vulgar and uneducated, one worked as a stripper. He used to work as a stripper. He is jealous and controlling and told him that I don't need to see my friends much any more. The first night we slept together he took me to a hotel. I dont know why he didnt take me back to his place. Ive been there since. I told him that I had been hurt in the past and that I wanted to take it slowly. He shouted and got angry and said "Everyone has been hurt in the past. Just get over it" He is not understanding but expects me to be understanding and caring towards him. Another time he got really angry because I asked to change bars and go to the bar next door as there were no seats at the bar we were at. Once when we slept together I went to the bathroom to get condoms. Three days later he brought it up in an angry voice that I destroyed the romantic moment by going to the bathroom to get condoms. Another time we arranged a blind date between my friend and his best friend and he got all angry and said "why would he phone her again as she won't sleep wth him, she is just looking for friendship" and was even shouting. SHOULD I CONTINUE TO DATE HIM? WOULD MANY WOMEN TOLERATE THIS KIND OF BEHAVIOUR? He also told me that I talk too much about my friends and their lives and that I should only talk about me and him and our future together. Also, some of his friends occassionally go with prostitutes even though they are married.
  • Should I do this or not? Or how to make him feel "gutted"?

    Singles & Dating - 8 hours ago

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    this guy hurt me in some way. he was always saying how much he "likes" me, he was telling me things like "your the one ... we've got so much in common... we need to go out ..." etc. at the time, when he was asking me out, I wasn't sure it was a good idea (I didn't know him that much, he was showing his interest, which turned out to be lie) so I said "maybe not now, maybe later". after this he stopped talking to me, I was so mad at him - he was ignoring me all week, and then - thanks to facebook - I found out that all this time he was adding my girlfriends to his friends list! and more - once my bro caught him during his date with one of my friends! luckily this girl didn't know that it was my bro and that this lier and hypocrite was asking me out as well. I was so mad at him. and the ugliest part of this story is that when he sees me in uni, he starts flirting! can you believe it? oh gosh I want to do something to make him feel miserable, angry and furious! I had this little plan, but I'm not sure it's good enough - I'll delete him from my friends list and then I'll send him msg like "sorry, my boyfriend didn't want you in my friends list" hah! how good/bad is that? or maybe you can suggest something else? he hurts girls' hearts, now it's time to make him feel that way! [evil laugh]. or maybe it's better just to ignore him? I'm confused.
  • Why is he acting like more of a roomate to me?

    Singles & Dating - 8 hours ago

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    My boyfriend inherited 10K, now thats not alot of money. First thing he did was quit his job, then we decided to get a business going and are supposed to be usung this to start it because we are both unemployed. I am doing all the work and he stays up for hours on t he computer looking for ways to spend this money that has nothing to do with business. Not only am i afraid he is going to blow right thru this money, but I am getting no attention or affection from him at all, we dont have sex, he is just too busy having money. I have tried to talk to him, but he calls it "anxiety", i call it a kid with a little cash. Any input or suggestions? please!

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