Kim Kardashian Is Not Dating – Yet.

Kim Kardashian isn’t looking for the one. In fact, she’s not even looking.

“[I'm] not even close” to dating again,” the reality star, 31, tells British Cosmopolitan, adding, “I just don’t believe in one soul mate now.”
Her new outlook on love comes just months after her not-so-happy ending with Kris Humphries after 72 days of marriage.
“I think you have different soul mates throughout your life, that your soul needs different things at different times,” she says. “I do believe in love. I will always believe in love, but my idea has changed from what I’ve always thought.”

Another change: Kardashian says she will start taking a more private approach with her next boyfriend – one that doesn’t involve Keeping Up with the Kardashians or any of its spin-offs.

“I don’t think I would stop [doing the reality show] – I love doing it – but I wouldn’t have another relationship shown on the show,” she says. “That might be too personal, especially when you’re just meeting someone.”

For now, Kardashian says she’s “just going to work on me for a bit. … I’m putting the past behind me and have never felt more confident about my future.”

Eva Longoria dishes on ‘Housewives,’ dating.

The Dangers Of Dating Someone You Feel “Meh” About.

You know when your friend gets a boyfriend, and for whatever reason, you know it’s not a good idea and that it’s not going to work out? And you say “I dunno, I feel like it’s not a good idea, and that it’s not going to work out…” But your friend is stubborn, so obviously they go on dating the person anyway, despite all the signs that they shouldn’t, and then they have a fraught and complicated relationship that doesn’t even last that long, and after the inevitable break-up, you, the loyal friend, are forced to deal with sometimes years of emotional aftermath?The author starts out giving us a rundown of how emotionally effed up and lost she was, which is generally not a great place to start a relationship. She describes starting to date because “it seemed like something people did.”  She then meets a guy who basically wins her over by being straight up persistent, even though she isn’t crazy about him, but she basically had nothing else going on, and he was kind of rich.

This is the point in the story where I, the reader/Loyal Friend, furrow my brow and tell her, “Well, it just doesn’t sound like you really like him that much?”And this is the point in the story where I, the reader/Loyal Friend want to shake her by the shoulders and tell her that she needs to figure herself out, that she can’t rely on a man to fix her, that she can’t rely on a relationship to make her happy. This is the point in the story where I scream at her for quitting her job to live as a sort of modern-day concubine to a guy who is starting to seem more and more like a jerk to me.

It sounds completely miserable, but at the same time, I can feel myself pursing my lips and trying to curb the judgmental tone in my voice when I tell her, “Well what did you expect? You don’t have to stay with him, you know.”

At the end of the column, the author finds lasting love and happiness, and as her reader/hypothetical loyal friend, I am happy for her.

But also a very tiny, immature part of me wants to sit back in my seat, smile smugly, and say, “I told you so.”

Lohan swears off dating.

LOS ANGELES: Actress Lindsay Lohan has sworn to keep herself from dating as she wants to focus on playing Elizabeth Taylor in a biopic about the late screen legend.

Instead of dating, the actress wants to spend her time reading the script for the movie titled Liz and Dick. She is keen to make a comeback following her recent struggles with the law and does not want a relationship to get in the way, reports tmz.com.

Lohan’s legal problems began in 2007 and escalated in 2010, when she spent 14 days in jail after a missed progress report hearing as well as skipped alcohol education classes.

While still on probation, Lohan was charged with the theft of a necklace last year, to which she pleaded no contest.

However, after going under house arrest, Lohan finally began to turn things around.

On Wednesdays, Amanda Chatel will be sharing stories about her strange, fascinating and sometimes wonderful dating life. If it makes you want to date, check out TheGloss dating page. 

E was one of those men you stumble upon every once in a while who definitely had his, um, shortcomings. Unlike most men who might suffer from such an issue, E was well aware and discussed his lack of endowment to the point of it being uncomfortable. He joked that he had tried different avenues to “fix” it, but as with many advertisements that make impossible promises, he came up empty. It’s a fact of life that you can’t grow back your hair with a foam and you can’t gain a few inches on your penis with pills. It is what it is and it’s best to deal or make up for it in other ways. E made up for it by not only having a gifted tongue, but by being a bit on the kinky side, too. However, we all have a different idea of what constitutes kinky and what’s just straight up weird.

We’d been dating for a couple weeks when I slept with him for the first time, and it was just under a month’s worth of dates when I awoke to him feverishly lapping at my armpit as if he was a dog and my underarm was a supplier of mass amounts of Alpo. I had been dead asleep and while in the past I had woken up to a gentleman trying to have sex with me (the danger of sleeping in a fella’s bed), this behavior was completely new to me. I jerked away and asked him what he was doing. He explained that I smelled so good and he had wanted to do it since we first met. Of course, I smelled good! It’s called Dove deodorant and smells like spring flowers or whatever fancy shit the label says.

“Does deodorant taste good to you?” I asked as I got out of bed and stood in front of him wrapped in his sheet.

“I can’t taste it. I can only taste you,” he answered. There was a part of me that was throwing up a bit in my mouth and I focused on my throat so I wouldn’t insult him with a natural gag reaction. “Come back and let me do it again.”

“No. I don’t want someone sticking their tongue in certain parts of my body, and my armpit is one of them,” I snapped.

“But it’s so soft and clean,” he said smiling in what I now recall as a creepy sort of way.

“Yeah, it’s called electrolysis and deodorant!” I dropped the sheet to the floor, got dressed and headed home.

From the beginning, I knew E was a transition fella so I wasn’t about to get my panties in a twist over his weird penchant for licking armpits. We all have our fetishes, and although I appear to be lacking in that area, I couldn’t exactly judge him because of it. As long as it doesn’t involve shit or piss, my mentality is more power to you in whatever gets you off. A few days later I agreed to go to dinner with him and put the whole licking of the armpit thing behind us. I had made it clear that I wasn’t into it so I thought we could evolve past it. Besides, there must be plenty of girls who would like such a thing, and I’m sure he’d find them someday. After dinner I went back to his apartment — he had cable, I did not.

It was about 4am when I awoke, once again, to E licking the shit out of my armpit as if it was his last meal on earth. Had we not covered this? I smacked his head away from me and yelled at him to get control. Again he explained how much he loved it and just wanted to please me. I lept out of his bed, got dressed, and told him to go looking elsewhere for a lady friend who would enjoy having her pit covered in saliva. I wasn’t about to get woken up in the middle of the night by him and his armpit-hungry tongue for however long our casual thing was going to last.

Out of boredom, I’d see him a couple more times where he managed to keep his tongue away from my underarm, even when I was asleep (I think.) However, I was finally forced to throw in the towel not long afterward when he insisted I give him a handjob with my feet — which I guess would technically be a footjob. While I’ve met people since then where I could have done that as a joke, he and I didn’t laugh enough together for anything outside of missionary to be even remotely possible. I’ve learned that if you can’t laugh both in and out of the bedroom, there’s really no point. Licking an armpit is really funny, and if you can’t laugh at it — no matter how much you love it — then it sort of defeats the purpose of truly enjoying yourself.

Much to my relief, no one has tried to lick my armpit since.

Ten years ago, online dating was seen as the last refuge of the desperate; today it’s mainstream enough that the worried parents of some of my unmarried friends urge them to keep their online profiles updated. Estimates vary, but tens of millions of Americans use sites like Match.com, PlentyOfFish, EHarmony, OKCupid, and Chemistry, along with niche dating sites like JDate (for Jewish singles), Gay, and SugarDaddie. A single person today doesn’t have to be content with whom they might meet at work or a party, or at church or the local bar. They can go online and browse millions of profiles to find that special someone who shares their love of yakitori, corgis, and Ultimate Fighting. Many sites take things one step further, offering, through proprietary algorithms, to pick a perfect match for a person out of the cacophony of online profiles, with an accuracy that puts human matchmakers to shame. It’s “science-based” matching.

A new paper, however, calls into question much of that science. Writing in the current issue of Psychological Science in the Public Interest (PSPI), five psychologists who specialize in the study of human relationships argue that, while increasing the potential matches does increase the odds that a person will find a romantic partner, the rest of what online dating sites offer doesn’t do much at all. And some of the services the websites offer might backfire, causing users to overlook people they might be happy with. “By suggesting that compatibility can be established from a relatively small bank of trait-based information about a person—whether by a matchmaker’s algorithm or by the users’ own glance at a profile—online dating sites may be supporting an ideology of compatibility that decades of scientific research suggests is false,” the authors write. Or, as lead author Eli Finkel puts it, “We looked at the quote-unquote evidence they mustered, and said this doesn’t pass muster.”

Questions about particular matching methodologies have been raised before, sometimes by matchmaking websites themselves—EHarmony or Chemistry.com—attacking each other’s matching algorithms as they compete for users. Because the algorithms are proprietary, it’s difficult to say much about their specifics. But the authors of the new online dating paper argue that there’s a problem with the very concept of compatibility these sites are selling. Contrary to what they promise, compatibility can’t be calculated or predicted in the hypothetical, either by asking people what they want in a partner or by asking them a detailed set of questions about themselves that’s then used to calculate the best matches for them.

The problem with asking people to describe their ideal match is they’re not good at predicting what they’ll actually want. Studies of speed dating, for example, have shown that the potential partners daters reported feeling romantically attracted to didn’t actually fit the descriptions they had given beforehand of their ideal match. The process of browsing a number of online profiles can exacerbate this disconnect, as people rely on easily comparable qualities like income or height rather than less quantifiable ones that might play a larger role in interpersonal chemistry.

Matching algorithms are supposed to solve this problem, but Finkel et al argue that this is impossible. There are traits that are good predictors of how likely a person is to end up in a happy, stable long-term relationship—neuroticism in one or both parties correlates with unhappy relationships and a greater chance of breaking up, as does having parents who divorced. These, however, are not the sort of traits dating websites are sussing out when they promise to find that special someone for their users—unless you count EHarmony’s policy of rejecting people it thinks won’t be good matches for the site’s clientele.

Again, the specifics of the algorithms are secret, but the traditional idea of compatibility tends to focus on personality. But while it’s a common and intuitive idea, the PSPI authors point out that the psychological evidence that similar personalities predict successful intimate relationships is “on the whole, weak and contradictory.” In one study they cite, degree of similarity in political orientation, religiosity, and life values was not associated with levels of marital satisfaction. Another study, of newlyweds, found that enjoying the same leisure activities caused husbands to feel closer to their wives, but didn’t matter at all to the wives.

Dating Violence Exists Among Middle School Students.

When many of us think about dating violence, we often think of it being an issue for high schoolers and older adults, but a new study challenges that misconception. A recent study for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Blue Shield of California found that rates of dating violence are reaching alarming rates among students in middle school.

By surveying more than 1,400 students, researchers found 75 percent of students had a boyfriend or girlfriend. Unfortunately, too many of those relationships were unhealthy.

According to the survey, Starting Strong: Building Healthy Teen Relationships, one in six 12-year-olds has experienced physical dating violence in the past six months; one in three participants have witnessed this type of violence among their peers in the past; and 37 percent of 11- to 14-year-olds had been psychologically abused by a partner.

Violence included hitting, pushing, kicking, sexual abuse/violence and emotional abuse such as controlling behavior and not allowing a partner (male or female) to do something. It’s also important to note the sampling of students was diverse: 30 percent were white; 34 percent African-American; 12 percent Latino and other races. Researchers also made sure the genders were equally represented: 50 percent of the participants were male and 50 percent female.

According to HealthDay, researchers also found:

—Forty-nine percent said they had been sexually harassed, either physically or verbally, by being touched inappropriately or joked about.

—Seven percent strongly agreed that it was OK for a boy to hit his girlfriend under certain circumstances, such as “a girl who makes her boyfriend jealous on purpose.” Interestingly, 50 percent strongly agreed it was OK for a girl to hit her boyfriend in the same situation.

—Thirty-one percent of these middle school kids are “experiencing some kind of electronic aggression or pressure such as provocative or insistent texting.”

—Sixty-three percent agreed with what the pollsters considered a “harmful stereotype” about gender, such as “girls are always trying to get boys to do what they want” or “With boyfriends and girlfriends, boys should be smarter than girls.”

Understandably, these findings are alarming, but researchers did find some encouraging data.

Peter Long, president and CEO of Blue Shield of California Foundation told HealthDay, “Nearly three-quarters of the students reported that in the last six months they have talked to their parents about dating. Not necessarily about dating abuse, but about dating.”

Long added, “Which means the door is open for parents to talk to their children about relationships. So, on the one hand, we have real serious issues here. But, on the other hand, we also have a real opportunity for parents to engage.”

If you or someone you know is a victim of dating violence, know that it is not your fault and you are not alone. Talk to an adult, teacher or call one of the resources below for help.

‘Khloe And Lamar’: Khloe Feels Torn After Lamar Gets Offer To Play In Turkey.

During the NBA lockout Lamar Odom received an offer to go play basketball in Turkey, and he and wife Khloe were thinking about accepting it.

However, some of her relatives were not at all happy about the prospect of her moving to that country, and on “Khloe And Lamar” (Sun., 10 p.m. EST on E!) her brother Rob explained why.

In April of 1915 the Ottoman Empire, in what is now Turkey, allegedly orchestrated a massacre of the local Armenian population. Ever since, successive Turkish governments have challenged the Armenian version of what exactly happened in the Armenian Genocide.

Khloe is, of course, of Armenian descent on her father’s side. Unsure of what to do, she called up her dad’s brother Tom Kardashian to ask his advice.

Tom said that the possibility of Lamar playing in Turkey “bothered me a little bit.”

Khloe asked if he thought there was any way she could turn it into a positive experience, or if it would just be a “really sticky situation.” Her uncle’s advice was to “stay away from it.”

The Armenian Genocide has recently hit the headlines in France. Check out Bernard-Henri Levi’s “Armenian Genocide: The French Constitutional Council’s Mistake.” Follow the adventiures of “Khloe And Lamar” Sundays at 10 p.m. EST on E!.

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Britney Spears Face Morph Video Shows Singer Through The Years.

Britney Spears has undeniably gone through some major changes since she first stepped into the spotlight as part of “The Mickey Mouse Club” in the ’90s.

The pop star might have started out as an innocent school girl with her hit single “Hit Me Baby One More Time,” but a few albums and one Kevin Federline later, Britney went through a rough patch that caught a lot of her fans by surprise.

But it was that phase, namely in 2007, that makes this face-morph video all the more entertaining.

YouTube user VJ4rawr compiled dozens of Britney images to create a disturbing compelling video that shows the singer’s transformation over the past 30 years.

The clip has garnered nearly 120,000 hits since it was first posted on Feb. 19, and viewers have expressed a mix of shock and awe at the songstress’ astonishing transformation. Some are even requesting face-morph videos for other stars like Lindsay Lohan and Christina Aguilera. Yikes.

So, what’s Brit up to these days? Last we heard, she and fiance Jason Trawick are enjoying their engagement, while juggling a lawsuit from former manager Sam Lufti.

Vicki Gunvalson Talks Being Replaced By Younger ‘Housewives’.

Vicki Gunvalson is Bravo’s original Orange County housewife and this season, her life is full of drama, divorce, a new boyfriend and even concerns about getting replaced by much younger housewives.

“I was one of the youngest cast members and now I’m the oldest,” Vicki told me when I met up with her at NBC. “They are bringing in the girls 16 years younger. Hello.”

The 49-year-old admits that she liked the show better when it first debuted, before the series turned into weekly catfights — a new trend that the ladies’ ages may have something to do with.

“We weren’t fighting, we were just talking about our lives, raising kids,” Vicki tells me. “I think the producers wanted to sexercise it so we got the younger girls, but its okay, just more fights.”

However, the high tensions — and ratings — have people wondering what a show like this will do to Vicki’s business and real life.

“Yes, absolutely it does hurt business,” Vicki tells me. “I have to be very careful of what I say and how my temper shows and I really try to control all drinking on camera because I’m not a big drinker anyway, but they sensationalize it. [They] Make them think you are drinking more than you are when you’re not drinking that much.”

Insisting that the producers do not tell any cast member what to do, Vicki does acknowledge that with fulltime filming that transforms into a few minutes on screen, producers can definitely sculpt a scenario.

Former Kardashian Nanny, Pam Behan, Reveals Truth About Family.

We’ve already seen the Kardashians during some of their worst and most vulnerable moments on their reality shows, but a former nanny is ready to reveal even more about the famous family.

Pam Behan was hired by Kris Jenner in July 1988 and watched Kourtney, Kim, Khloe and Rob grow up. The former nanny is writing a memoir about her time with the reality TV family and reveals the truth about the children she once cared for — they were good kids.

“I would say they were definitely spoiled,” she admits to “Entertainment Tonight.” “Any kid that grows up in Malibu or Beverly Hills is spoiled, but that doesn’t mean they were naughty or bad. They never disrespected me.”

Behan says the book is going to be completely honest with no fabrications. “It’s going to be funny, crazy, zany, upbeat, positive stories,” she said, adding that there will be no bashing and it’s not a “tell all.”

The Kardashians’ former employee is looking to stay on the family’s good side and says she’s writing the book but isn’t sure if it will be published. What’s more, she plans on showing the manuscript to the family to make sure she has their approval.

Behan also spoke to “ET” about the recent rumor that Robert Kardashian was not Khloe’s biological father, saying she “truly believes” Khloe is a Kardashian. She adds that Khloe was probably Robert’s favorite child.

While it’s clear she cares about the family, she also commented on Kim’s love life, saying she thinks that Kim probably expected to be the first of all of them to get married and have babies and felt pressured to find someone and settle down.

“She’s 30, she’s in the spotlight and feeling the pressure. And I just think she made a mistake, but at least she admitted it,” she said. “I don’t think she would do that to Kris Humphries otherwise. Kim does not need to get married on TV or anything like that to make money. Kim can make money on her own.”

Alexis Bellino On Religion: ‘I Have Brought So Many Girls Back To The Lord’.

Alexis Bellino went from being a Maxim “Hometown Hottie” to a star on “Real Housewives of Orange County,” and admits that she’s spent a lot of money on her appearance to land the fame-making gigs. But the one thing she says is even more important than looking good, is religion — having Jesus in her life.

“Vicky [Gunvalson's] been on [the show] for seven years,” Alexis tells me on my HDNet talk show, “Naughty But Nice.” “If you go back and watch the first season, she looks nothing like it and acts different. We all have had work done! Are you kidding me? Anyone who says differently is lying.”

Alexis has been criticized for dressing and acting the way she does, while being very vocal about her faith. However, she believes that anyone can have God in their lives, no matter how they choose to dress.

“I don’t walk around with my Bible, but I am religious,” Alexis tells me. “I believe in Jesus Christ and that he is our savior and I am vocal about it. Sometimes I look back and think, ‘Would I have been so vocal about it if I had known about the backlash I would have gotten?’ I take in the critics and if it gets bad, I just think about a scripture … I have brought so many girls back to the Lord because they didn’t realize you could go to church and dress like this.”

Victoria’s Secret supermodel Karolina Kurkova has no belly button!!!

Victoria’s Secret supermodel Karolina Kurkova literally has no belly button!! (She is the second model to the left in the above photo, you know the one the first model on the left is staring at? I would be staring too!!) VS reps have confirmed that Karolina Kurkova indeed has no belly button, and that one is installed using photo editing whenever her odd mid-section is photographed. Unless she is an alien (like the sexy model-like girls in the horror movie Decoys!) I imagine some sort of surgery or accident or something of the sort had to have happened as a child… still it would be cool if she was an alien with no belly button like the horror movie!

Pretty in pink: Toni Braxton look sensational in a cutaway leotard and suspender tights as she film her new video.

She may be in her mid-forties but Toni Braxton knows how to give women half her age a run for their money in the sexy stakes.Because the singer looked much younger than her years as she filmed her new music video in a very hot outfit.Miss Braxton, 44, looked gorgeous in a cutaway pink leotard that showed off her curves.And she teamed it with black suspender tights and silver jewellery as she filmed the video.She also sported a new short curly do which softened her face,Toni was filming the video for her new single I Heart You, her first release for two years.

It will be the lead single off her upcoming eighth studio album due for release later this year, with the sing due out sometime this month.

Toni wrote and produced the club anthem and said: ‘When I wrote this song I was thinking about the feeling you get when you walk into a club and you hear the melody.

‘You feel the beat and you just know it’s going to be a good night.

Earlier this month it was reported that Toni was dating actor Eddie Murphy with a source telling Us Weekly: ‘They are seeing each other and very into it. Their kids have met and everything. It’s getting very serious.’

But this has since been denied by her spokesperson who went to the publication and said: ‘Toni and Eddie are just friends and have been fans of each other’s work for a long time.’

Eddie – who has eight kids from previous relationships – is said to gave even cheered on the mother of two at her L.A concert on February 19.

She’s been separated from singer Keri Lewis since 2009, the couple were married for eight years and have sons Denim, 11, and eight-year-old Diezel together.

Looking swell: Kourtney Kardashian shows off her growing baby bump in a form-fitting sweater.

Bet Robbie’s happy! Jennifer Ellison is out of Dancing On Ice, which means her husband can enjoy her newly-toned body.

Jennifer Ellison was sent packing in tonight’s Dancing On Ice semi-final after failing to impress the judges.

Her departure will be good news to her husband Robbie Tickle who she’s promised will ‘reap the benefits’ of her svelte new figure when she leaves the show.

The actress, 28, had improved immensely on her early performances but still lacked that extra level of skill that would have taken her to the final.

She left in tears, upset that she couldn’t carry on with the show which she said had taught her to believe in herself.

Written in the stars: Jessie J and Tinie Tempah ‘have been enjoying secret dates.

It looks as though their relationship has been written in the stars.Singer Jessie J and rapper Tinie Tempah have reportedly been having secret dates together.The two stars of British music realised they liked each other after spending time together partying and are now an item.

Jessie, 23, who is currently on tour in Indonesia, has fallen hard for the Pass Out singer and has spent a lot of time at his home.

A friend of the Do It Like A Dude told The Sun: ‘Jessie started going over to see Tinie at his place when they had a day off and one thing led to another.They both like each other a lot.’

Tinie, 23, has become the go-to-guy for Jessie since she became a judge on new TV show The Voice

The 23-year-old has been giving the openly bisexual singer advice during filming of the BBC programme and she has even told some close friends about the relationship.

A source told the newspaper: ‘Jessie has admitted to a few friends she has a secret boyfriend at the moment, but she has been keeping it close to her chest.’

The two Londoners met a couple of years ago via a series of showbiz parties, but they really hit it off when performing together at the Royal Albert Hall for The Teenage Cancer Trust

They also both recently spent time in Australia doing promotional work.

Jessie J had better keep a close eye on her new flame as earlier this month, Tinie, real name Patrick Okogwu, was said to be dating former Celebrity Big Brother star Georgia Salpa.

The glamour model told the newspaper at the time: ‘I love a man who knows how to dress and has something about him. I love Tinie’s music and he is the perfect gentleman.’

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Fassbender rumoured to be dating Shame co-star

The 34-year-old actor starred alongside Beharie, 27, in the Steve McQueen-directed film about a sex addict living in New York City. Beharie played a love interest for Fassbender’s character.

The pair were photographed arm-in-arm with in New York’s Soho district last week.

This is not the first time Fassbender has been linked to a fellow cast member. The talented actor briefly dated Zoe Kravitz last year, after starring with her in X-Men: First Class.

Dating rules for teen seem reasonable.

Our daughter is now at the age where we are going to allow her to officially date. She is almost 17 years old, and to some that probably seems very old, but my husband and I have been adamant about not allowing her to date until now. We are providing her with a set of rules for dating and one of them is that we have to meet the young man first.

Even if this young man is someone we have known for many years from a distance, such as a neighbor, a young man from church, or sports, we want him to actually come into our home, sit down, and carry on a conversation with us before our daughter gets into a car with him. My husband also wants to talk to this young man about how he expects him to treat our daughter, places that are totally off-limits and the time he has to have her home and in the house.

Our daughter thought we were kidding at first because we have been telling her for years, there would be “rules.

She has indicated none of her girlfriends have had to go through this, and of course they started dating at a much younger age.She is telling us it would be rude of us to put a potential date “on trial” or through “an inquisition” like this.We would like your opinion as to whether we would be considered rude.

A. No, you are not being rude wanting to meet any young man who wants to date your daughter.

If the young man is reluctant to meet you and carry on a short conversation, he might not be someone you would want spending time with or dating your daughter. In addition, if your daughter appears to be reluctant to ask this young man to come in to meet you, she might be sending a message to you that this young man is someone whom you would not approve of her dating.

If it is someone your daughter respects and likes, she should want to introduce him to you and have a chance to carry on a short conversation.

Outlining your rules for dating to both your daughter and the young man allows for no misunderstanding about what you expect from both of them.

Whether your daughter’s girlfriends’ parents establish or do not establish the same type of dating rules as you do, or any rules, is irrelevant.

On the light side, you could tell your daughter she is lucky she was not born in the late 1800s or early 1900s when young ladies her age were not permitted to date a young man unless the mother accompanied them or chaperoned them on dates.

As a matter of fact, one of my 1907 etiquette books, “A Course of Instruction in Good Form, Style and Deportment,” has a photo in it of a young couple sitting in the parlor while the young lady’s mother sits on a nearby chair, doing handwork.

Q. How long a look at a stranger is considered a stare?

A. Anything more than two seconds.

Note: Please join me at 2 p.m. March 31 at the Wolf Branch Middle School for the Miss Midwest Illinois Beauty Pageant. This event benefits the Children’s Miracle Network. Advance tickets are available by contacting Lisa Elbe at 719-3140. Jenny Schulte, owner of Girls’ Night Out, will also be providing a fashion show of beautiful evening dresses along with my latest fascinator creations.

Is Bobbi Kristina dating her adopted brother, Nick Gordon?

While there are conflicting reports on whether or not Whitney Houston’s daughter, Bobbi Kristina, has developed a romantic relationship with Nick Gordon, sources close to Whitney’s mom, Cissy Houston, say she is so unhappy about the possible romance, she’s asked Gordon to move out of the Atlanta home he’s sharing with Bobbi Kristina.

That request reportedly led to a very heated argument between Cissy Houston and her granddaughter.

Gordon, now 22, was unofficially “adopted” by Whitney Houston when he was 12, and he and Bobbi Kristina, 19, have enjoyed a brother-sister relationship since then.

While TMZ reported Whitney’s daughter told friends she and Gordon are now a couple, he has admitted only that they are “good friends,” comforting each other in recent weeks since Houston’s untimely death.

Much has been made of Bobbi Kristina being named sole heir to her mother’s estate, but it will be a long, long time before she can expect to see any big royalty checks. According to numerous sources, Whitney Houston borrowed millions from Sony, based on the huge deal she inked with its RCA Records in 2001. According to knowledgable music blogger Wayne Russo’s “Wayne’s World,” Houston would have to have the No. 1 album for the next six months — with sales topping $5 million — before her estate could begin to see royalties.

GETTING ‘BOSS’-Y: With Kelsey Gramme r back in town to begin taping the second season of the Starz series “Boss,” it’s nice to know rapper and actor T.I. has joined the cast playing a former gangbanger who wants a career in Chicago politics.

ROSIE’S REASONS: While a lot of critics have been weighing in on wh y Rosie O’Donnell’s talk show failed on OWN, weekend chats with a couple of “Rosie” staffers revealed some telling tidbits.

“I never understood why both Rosie and the OWN people didn’t realize they faced a huge obstacle right from the beginning, with the show airing at the worst possible time,” said a show insider. “People watch talk shows in the late morning, in the afternoon or in late night, but airing at 7 p.m. [Eastern time] was almost a guarantee of failure, even if Rosie was able to land better than C- or D-level guests,” added the source.

Another “Rosie” staff member said, “Yes, Rosie was tough to work for, but it was because she was just as demanding of everyone around her as she was of herself.”

Also problematic, according to this second source? “The constant push by OWN to both bring back the ‘old’ Rosie, before her politics and feuds created that ‘mean’ Rosie image.

“It just didn’t work. You can’t go back in time. You can’t expect the public to change their impressions of Rosie that have been created by the past decade.”

O’Donnell didn’t go into details when she slipped into Market last Wednesday (two days before the official cancellation announcement of her show), but she claimed she’d had “a long day” when she ordered a drink. Could she just have received word her show was axed?

LOVE TO READ? It seems hard to believe there would be a market for two Courtney Love books, but it appears there will be a pair of very different ones hitting bookstores within the next year.While the rocker and sometime actress will be coming out with her own memoir about her music career, marriage to the late Kurt Cobain, struggles with addiction and troubled relationship with daughter.Frances Bean Cobain — it’s a good bet that the book by Love’s estranged ex-assistant Jessica Labrie will be a much dishier read!

SEEN ON THE SCENE: As “March Madness” kicked off last week, Marquette alum and Portland Trailblazer Wesley Matthews watched his alma mater beat Brigham Young at Schoolyard Tavern in Lake View while he was in town to play the Bulls. … Artist Marilyn Minter, here to speak at the Art Institute, lunched at Harry Caray’s Navy Pier and loved our temps as she took an architectural tour on a Shoreline boat.