Merriam-Webster announced their 1,000 new additions to the dictionary for February 2017 and the internet is reeling from the realization that millennial daters’ refusal to connect emotionally has officially become enshrined in the English language. Now that Merriam-Webster has made sure that you definitely know what ghosting is, we figured we’d supply a cheat sheet […]
I probably could have written the Modern Love essay, Exit Left, Wordlessly, in the New York Times. Not that I could have penned it better than writer Aimee Lee Ball, just that I have a story which is frighteningly similar. Ball’s tale is about breaking up with a man only to have him resurface eight years […]
In 1962, breaking up was hard enough and Neil Sedaka only had to worry about running into a former flame out with a new love IRL, not seeing their new romantic vacation selfies on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Vine and Snapchat, all hashtagged #mylove, #lovemybae, #GenderSpecificCrushDayoftheWeek. It’s the same old refrain: social media brings us closer […]
It’s really difficult to talk about the end of a relationship when you haven’t exactly had a breakup. “Well, how did it end?” someone inevitably asks. “Umm … I left him a heart-wrenching voicemail,” seems too embarrassing an answer. I dated someone for more than eight months until he completely ghosted. I honestly thought this only […]
My best friend went on a date with a man who seemed fine at first — they sat at a neighborhood bar and talked for hours. They went on a second date, but this time, the dude tried every trick in the book to get her to come to his place and have sex. She […]
