The biggest thing that makes our relationship work is our willingness to make it work: to choose to be kind to each other, to show appreciation for the other’s small and large acts of kindness, to find moments of connection and romance in the mundane routine of our lives. I don’t suppose it is possible […]
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: My friend—let’s call her Mia—and I have been best friends for 20 years, since we met in […]
I’m a straight man in love with a straight woman. When I moved to a new town in Pennsylvania just over a year ago, I had no idea of what an enormous effect the change would have on my life. The only people I knew in Pennsylvania were a few friends I’d lived with previously who were local […]
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’ve been friends with this guy for over seven years. We get along famously, and often refer […]
I felt beautiful, romantic, and in love with the world in that dress. For me, the right red dress provided more warmth than the wrong man’s arms. Buy a red dress. It had been on my list of things to do for a while. After a couple years, it became clear it wasn’t just any dress […]
I had tried everything. I’d had enough, so I decided: This was the last time I’d use the dating site. Oddly enough, I was right. When people ask me how I met my wife, I want to tell them we were set up by mutual friends. Or we met in a women’s drumming class, and sat next […]
