Dana Norris is the founder of Story Club. She once went on 71 internet dates. I sign up for speed dating because it makes me incredibly nervous. Talk to a bunch of strange men for two hours while they judge you? Sounds like a form of punishment. But I’m getting too comfortable spending most evenings […]
This originally appeared on CharlieGlickman.com. Republished here with permission. Last night, I was chatting with a friend and we started talking about how a lot of people just don’t get her. While she and I clicked pretty much from the start, she told me that when she meets people, they don’t always have the same […]
This originally appeared on Alternet.org. Republished here with permission. Impasses inevitably arise in any relationship. The question is how you negotiate them. Meta is my favorite prefix. It refers to whatever follows it: meta-cognition means thinking about thinking, or a meta-blog is a blog about blogging. Meta-incompatibility means incompatibility about incompatibility. If you and your partner negotiate incompatibilities using different […]
We already know how to support our friends when their partner is sick, but what about when their partner develops a heroin addiction? There aren’t many variations on that dreaded middle-of-the-night phone call: Someone’s been in an accident, arrested, slipped away in their hospital bed before you had the chance to say goodbye. I think […]
An ex told the author that she was “weird” for watching porn, and that it’s only for guys. But she and plenty of other women beg to differ. I still remember the first time I “confessed” that I watched porn. My ex-boyfriend and I were lying in bed after a passionate round of sex. Adrenaline coursing […]
This originally appeared on Massive Hassle. Republished here with permission. So I have had almost zero formal sex education. When I was 10, our teacher held the girls back at break time and solemnly informed us that we were due to start bleeding out of our vaginas any day now. If this happened while we […]
This originally appeared on Mamamia. Republished here with permission. Whenever I run into old friends, family members, or associates I haven’t seen in a certain amount of time, we both obviously have a keen interest to know what the other has been up to. My queries are of a general nature—I like to give them […]
This originally appeared on The Daily Life. Republished here with permission. I consider myself fairly unflappable in the face of revelations about how others live their lives. You like dipping your French fries in ice-cream sundaes? Well, that sounds gross to me, but maybe you had a tongue accident as a young child. You’re a […]
