Dear Dana is a bi-weekly advice column for humans who engage in romantic relationships. Please send your dilemmas, issues, conundrums, assumptions, conflicts, anxieties, worriments, obstacles, complications, predicaments, queries, questions, and any other synonyms for “problems” to deardana@rolereboot.org. Dear Dana, I think I made a huge mistake. My good friend got married earlier this month and I […]
Dear Dana is a bi-weekly advice column for humans who engage in romantic relationships. Please send your dilemmas, issues, conundrums, assumptions, conflicts, anxieties, worriments, obstacles, complications, predicaments, queries, questions, and any other synonyms for “problems” to deardana@rolereboot.org. Dear Dana: Let me begin by saying: I’m stressed. The holidays are a stressful time of year for me, […]
It appears that in some quarters, when a woman is perceived as unavailable sexually, that can make her invisible professionally. When Starbucks recently issued a new dress policy that essentially banned wedding and engagement rings, the response was swift. Employees and their partners started a “Boycott Starbucks” hashtag on Twitter. Although it was later revealed that the policy […]
I question what message we, as women, have internalized when we spend thousands of dollars to alter our bodies for the sake of a selfie. My husband and I got engaged in the spring of my senior year in college. I was 23. Just days out from graduation, I defended my thesis on a Tuesday afternoon, came […]
