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I considered titling this week’s post “Dispatches from the Afterglow,” but there’s more to what I’m feeling than just happiness. That’s not a bad thing. My weekend-long New Year’s date with The Bartender was amazing, filled with affection and playful banter and delicious things to eat and drink, punctuated by some enthusiastic Naked Time and […]
Death and taxes are a fact of life. Unfortunately for more than 70,000 women (and men) in the U.S. between the ages of 20-39, they will add cancer to that list too, more specifically breast cancer. It’s a growing epidemic striking more women per year and at younger ages. In fact, every day, three women […]
Here’s how I thought being engaged would make me feel: OLD. Here’s how being engaged really makes me feel: like I’m in on the funniest inside joke ever. Two of the most opposite people on the planet, at least on the surface, are in it for the long haul. Who would have thunk it? I’m […]
After several weeks and one very disruptive snowstorm, The Bartender finally made his way to my city this weekend. I was, of course, thrilled to host him, but I was also a bit apprehensive: having spent no more than a delirious New Year’s Eve night here together, I had no frame of reference for how […]
When two people first start dating, they put on their best sides. They reveal only snippets of information to each other, leaving the full story for when the person really gets to know them. Basically, we wait until we have them tangled in our web of niceties to crush them with the sad truth that […]
Some people say that living together before marriage leads to failed relationships or divorce down the line, and others think that it should be a kind of audition or test run for marriage. I think both of these are way off! When you move in together for the right reasons — love, commitment to each […]
It wasn’t so long ago (1980, to be exact) that the average age of American women marrying for the first time was 22. Less than 30 years later, the average age for a first marriage has jumped to 26 for women and 28 for men. In a recent column for the Washington Post, Mark Regnerus argues that this trend […]
Imagine you are a very important man, working on very important man things. You know, like fixing that bike you bought in 2014, or running a startup out of your basement or brewing craft beer created with the yeast from your pubic hair. You know, super important dude stuff. Stuff that precludes you from being […]
You know how going on a first date usually feels like dipping your feet into an icy cold river of anxiety and self-doubt coupled with a growing hatred for whatever gender you’re attracted to? Well, what if while you were feeling all these things, you were able to carry a device that scientifically measures how […]
