The more people I can love, the greater love I have to give overall. For years, I appeared destined for one of those single lives depicted in Hollywood rom-coms—that friend of the popular girl who can never seem to snag a man. A cursory look at my biological family, and one can surmise why 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: My husband and I recently invited our new neighbors—a husband and wife—over for dinner. The evening was […]
Friend dates are more fun than real dates. I won’t get to make out, but I won’t spend 98% of the night wishing I was dead. Being single isn’t half as bad as many of my single friends make it out to be. Sure, I’d love to come home after a long day and curl […]
We’re taught to believe that romantic and sexual love are the highest forms of human connection, that friendship is somehow second best, but in truth, a friend—even a friend that you used to want to bone—can be a greater blessing than any other. On the first day of my freshman year of college, I sat […]
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 […]
