Has the Facebook “like” replaced our real life connection with friends? I caught up with a friend last week who I hadn’t seen in 10 years. She’s someone from my high school days, one of the girls I sat in a circle with each lunchtime, eating sandwiches and assessing boys. We never had a falling […]
Few women are prepared to face their own crazy selves—off of antidepressant meds—if it means risking the stability of their relationships. Last week Salon filled its social networks with a provocative 2011 piece from Jowita Bydlowska entitled “I choose sanity over sex.” Bydlowska says she used to love sex, but now she’s on Prozac and […]
Polyamory is exhilarating and rewarding, but the jealousy can often be crippling. Internetland seems to be chock-full these days of Perky Poly People, and Roc Morin’s Atlantic article “Up for Polyamory? Creating Alternatives to Marriage” from last week was no exception. I spend a lot of time reading polyamory blogs, almost always looking for advice […]
Society says people should completely fall apart after a breakup, but everyone deals with heartbreak in their own way. I recently sliced my heart wide open and found a horrible cliché: that I loved my partner dearly but was not in love with him. My ex-boyfriend’s belongings are still haphazardly strewn throughout the apartment in […]
This originally appeared on The Daily Life. Republished here with permission. In October last year I received a flurry of giddy emails from a dear friend in New York declaring that she had fallen in love, or as her email subject heading put it, she had gone “BACK TO THE GYNE!” Although this woman, let’s […]
When you see red flags, trust your gut. I don’t generally go on First Dates. “But you love dating!” a girlfriend said to me over coffee just the other day. “You love going on dates.” And she’s right in that I like spending time with people I’m interested and invested in. I’m most always in […]
A day supposedly designed for love is not just about so-called romantic love, but about all the ways in which the people we know both trigger and support our great changes as we move through the chaos and tangle of life experience, says Emily Rapp. On Valentine’s Day 1998, I was sitting in my office […]
Rather than lining retailers’ pockets on Valentine’s Day, why not just tell your partner what they mean to you more often? Ironically, the best Valentine’s week I ever spent was also the worst: I got married and jilted within the space of four days. Granted, I was only 9 years old at the time. On […]
