Spring cleaning period is listed here. And, for some, that doesn’t only apply to cluttered closets: In some cases associations get purged, far too. (Contemplate it “uncuffing season”!)

Just after four decades of dating, Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez confirmed on Thursday that they’ve named off their engagement. Each shared in a joint assertion that they “are much better as buddies and appear ahead to remaining so.”

Myra Farooqi, the author of this week’s Fashionable Enjoy essay, experienced done all she could to keep away from the opportunity heartache of slipping in appreciate with somebody outside the house of her Muslim faith. She experienced long gone as considerably as location the filters on Dil Mil, a courting app for South Asians, to exclude all non-Muslim and non-Pakistani guys. But someway a Hindu Indian-American guy produced it by means of. And, just like she feared, really like was inescapable. But so was a breakup if he did not transform to Islam.

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