This originally appeared on The Daily Life. Republished here with permission. As with romantic relationships, some friendships have a time limit on them. In addition to warding off flu, bladder infections, and the death penalty (don’t ask), one of the very sound pieces of advice my mother used to give me was in regards to […]
For years, I believed that once the kids were raised, then we’d be done. I was wrong again. I used to think that after my divorce, my ex-husband and I were done. I couldn’t have been more wrong. With kids in the picture, there is endless entanglement. When the rug of my marriage slipped from beneath my […]
Dick pics are just the beginning. Dana Norris wrote an awesome piece about the things she learned about online dating. It is accurate and wonderful. But for gay men, some of the advice needs the RuPaul Fabulous Makeover. So, let’s see what we can add and change from her article to make it work for […]
This originally appeared on The Daily Life. Republished here with permission. “Best friend familiarity” is not sexy. Praise be to the Internet, for it has allowed us to meet our insatiable appetites for Someecard-style “truisms.” “Do what you love, and you’ll never work another day in your life,” is popular. “Happiest in love are those who […]
I cannot tell you how many times men have groped my butt, touched my breasts, pulled up my skirt and tried to put their fingers in my panties all while dancing. Let me paint the scene for you: It’s the weekend and college parties are the highlight. You enter a room and the smell of […]
I’m not holding out for the right person to fix me and make me realize what I’m missing. I simply do not want sex. And I’m not alone in that. I want to tell a story. It is a coming-of-age story, but not the sort you usually hear. It is a story of sexuality, but […]
Why do we women feel the need to connect our body image to our dynamics with our significant others? By doing so, we externalize our own self-worth, making it fragile and dependent on other people. We all been there, haven’t we, or is it just me and Christina Sturdivant over at xoJane? On Monday, Sturdivant […]
How can you be intimate, and truly connect with another person without feeling…something? If my Android kept a tally of how many times I’ve listened to “All of Me” by John Legend in the last month, I would be embarrassed by the total. It is the only song I’ve played for days on end. On […]
