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“I can’t believe it … you’re in Paris for two weeks and you already have a boyfriend,” my sister said on the phone to me last night. She was exaggerating, for sure. “Oh Jesus, hardly. We haven’t even kissed.” It’s true, Mr. Cupid and I had our second date this week, and there was no kiss on the […]
Being single is awesome, because it means you can leave a bar whenever you want, and you don’t have to wait for someone to get home to start eating the dinner you just made. Being single on Valentine’s Day when all of your friends are in healthy relationships is a little less awesome. While they’re at […]
You can read wedding magazines, and wedding blogs, and wedding everything, but you’ll almost never turn the page and see the marriage. Everything stops in a last, beautiful moment, blurred by sparklers or bubbles or birdseed as the (inevitably white, inevitably young, inevitably thin, inevitably straight) couple disappears into the back of a limousine, a […]
I was a full-blown feminist by the time I started college. I also had a full-blown eating disorder. As a teen I marched on Washington for women’s rights. I put out a zine called Wonder Woman. I played drums (and by “played” I mean I aggressively and skill-lessly beat the shit out of a floor […]
I was in fourth grade when my grandmother first took me to a hair salon. She drove me to her hairdresser, Betsy, a 50-year-old woman who dyed her hair pitch black, and had a head full of curls the perfect shape of large hot rollers. I squirmed as Betsy ripped out the rubber bands holding […]
Ex-boyfriends, they say the darndest things! Most of the time, they’re blathering on is fairly harmless, but sometimes they can say things that are so egregiously clueless/insensitive/crappy that they really warrant special attention. Case in point, a couple of weeks ago, an ex of mine started telling me about his latest breakup. As he was […]
Valentine’s day should be all about love, showing affection and appreciation, but it is also a chance to be romantic and enjoy the great moments with your loved one. Whether you want to take your partner to dinner, or you have something special planned out, it is just important to spend some quality time together […]
Many couples feel that marriage is not necessary for happiness and long-term commitment. Fifteen women give us their ideas about what marriage means and why they don’t need it to be happy in their relationships. “Both of us have had bad marriages and divorces. When we got together, it wasn’t supposed to be a forever […]
I’m 25 years old and just found out that I’m pregnant … after having a threesome with an old fling and his roommate one drunken night. People don’t know about this secret sexual life I lead, and it’s truly going to rock the world of my conservative family. I’m against abortion and at a loss […]
