Let me guess, you’re feeling unfulfilled in your current relationship?
“But every relationship has its slumps,” you tell yourself. And yet, you’ve got this nagging sense that they’re supposed to feel better than this.
“But relationships are hard. They take work,” you tell yourself. …
This is a PSA for all the ‘nice guys’ out there — please kindly fuck off.
Before you get your back up, let me explain. No, I’m not a man-hating bitch. Seriously, I love my boyfriend and he’s a nice guy, but that’s beside the point.
I’m just tired. Tired…
Much to my lesbian mother’s dismay, I turned out to be heterosexual. Unfortunately for me, this meant I had to learn how to navigate the rocky landscape of dating in the 21st century on my own.
While I became adept at recognizing the signs that a guy is an overt…
Do you ever look around and feel behind in, well, practically every aspect of your life?
Where’s my graduate degree? Engagement ring? High-profile job? Baby bump? Shouldn’t I be further along by now? …
Ironically, this story took me an entire two weeks to write — and not because procrastination is a particularly complex or difficult topic to write about.
The reason it took so long to write is because, for some arbitrary reason, I decided that it was going to be ‘the one.’…
I’ve tried more side hustles than I can count on one hand. Most were abysmal fails (albeit good life lessons). However, the one that proved to be worth the struggle has three distinguishing characteristics:
These three things make up the golden trifecta of…
As a writer, there’s no worse feeling than being in the mood to write, but finding yourself fresh out of ideas. For many, staring at a blank page paralyzes the imagination. Where do you start when you can write about anything and everything?
Well, if your ultimate goal is to…
Like most grad students, I identify with being hard-working, motivated, and smart. Well, smart-ish. I don’t usually struggle with composing coherent sentences. So when I got feedback on a recent assignment telling me to proofread my work, I was slightly concerned. …
If I could go back in time and give my 20-year-old self one piece of dating advice, I would tell her to be picky. I’d tell her to stop giving every guy the benefit of the doubt, to stop waiting around for some fairytale ending. It’s not coming. …
I remember laughing when my friend told me that she has to do most of the meal prep at home because her boyfriend doesn’t know how to cut vegetables.
“A 33-year-old man can’t figure out how to dice an onion?” I said, bemused. “You’re kidding, right?”
Sadly, she was not.
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