The New Open Relationships

From Tiger's teXXXts to Jesse James' e-rotic indiscretions the current romanTECH landscape is turning me off (thougth it's obviously still turning others on :).


I used to think women that checked their BFs phones and Fbooks were psychotic, controlling and paranoid. But the other night I became one when I barked at my poor BF who was on Facebook looking at a series of pics from a group of twentysomething girls. When I asked "who are you trolling" he responded with those three little words every gal wants to hear, "my cousin Amy." Whew, I thought for now. But am I turning psychotech?

According to Retrevo a consumer electronic blog 36% of couples in a committed relationship check each others emails and phones. Though I never want to be that girl, I started talking to guy friends and girl friends to see what is normal when it comes to monitoring our significant others' technology.

While I thought the majority would think this practice was crazy a number of girls confessed that they regularly check their BFs phone and two said their guys even let them go through their call logs and texts as a sign of solidarity in their relationship. One of my best guy friends, who is dating another guy, told me recently that a paramount moment of their relationship was giving him the key...to unlock his cell phone. Apparently he has an Iphone and gave his significant other the key to unlock it so he can access movie times and download music when he isn't around. "Why not?" he asked, "the most exciting thing on my phone these days is a travelocity app."

So what do we think about these very open relationship? Is access to each others technology the ultimate sign of commitment or is keeping our partner on a short leash the same thing as treating them like a dog?

To Catch a Tiger

You go Elin.

First you won our hearts by getting crazy eyes and clubbing Tiger when you suspected he was cheating. Now you prove your prowess again by setting up a late night textual "booby" trap using Tiger's own phone to prove his affair.


Today the Daily Mail reports the back story behind how Elin discovered that Tiger was cheating. Apparently Elin was suspicious of his relationship with Uchitel. In a not so brilliant move to prove that he was "innocent" Tiger had Elin chat with Uchitel directly, you know to see that she was just your typicall-girl next door (did you catch that :). After their chat Elin played the blonde, Swedish, nanny card pretending she believed their relationship was platonic while pocketing Tiger's phone and texting Uchitel as if she were him later that night. Love the Tiger trap Elin!

A Crazy Year in Techromance

Happy almost 2010 everyone.

Instead of going to the gym I thought it would be fun to countdown some of the most outrageous moments in techromance this year. Let me know if anyone has any additions!

1. Tiger's not so hot sex messages: My two biggest techromance turnoffs are a) when suitors are overly confident and b) when they make grammar mistakes. This year Tiger Woods was guilty of both from poorly crafted messages like "I can't wait to see you to" to "i will were you out" showing big breasted women everywhere that Tiger's game best be left on the golf course.




2. "Altar"ing your facebook status at the altar: On December 2nd a groom whipped out his phone during his nuptials and changed his status to married. While I would normally commend romanTECH gestures this guy didn't tell his wife his plan. Let's hope he didn't surprise her by "poking" or "friending" other women at the reception.



3. The forever wedding dance + Chris Brown's history of domestic violence: Who didn't laugh and even get choked up as this wedding party awkwardly rocked down the aisle to Chris Brown's hit while strategically hiding their embarassment behind tacky sunglasses? The YouTube sensation stole America's heart, until people started to see the irony of kicking off a marriage with a song by an artist who was arrested for slapping around his significant other. FAIL.



4. Kim's sachrine tweets about reggie while relationship was crumpling: Perhaps she was trying to look on the bright side but critics slammed Kim Kardashian's sweet tweets the few weeks before her break up with Reggie. Mark Ecko's blog Complex does a hilarious read between the lines recap below:


WHAT KIM WAS REALLY THINKING: “If only they could bring up a side order of communication and honesty.”


5. A Totally Bad Ass Picture Text: And bringing up the rear is my favorite techromance story of 2009 involving, well, a picture of a girl's rear sent to my good friend. After she sent him her sexy thong-clad picture text we were all enamored of her tan and well shaped caboose. That is until he saw the date on the picture was June 17th....4 months before they started dating. This cheeky gone freaky act should remind us all that sexy pictures gone wrong can make us look like a total ass.



That's it dear readers. Here's to a romanTECH 2010!!! XOXO