Marriage is long if you’re lucky and hard if you’re not. That said, there’s nothing else quite like it. It involves merging your entire life with somebody else’s—you combine finances, don’t have sex with anybody else, and share living quarters together. That last once can get dicey if both partners don’t have quite the same […] More
Personally, I never had a problem with neighbors being too loud during sex. Sex is natural. Sex is beautiful. It makes babies. But apparently, some people (nuns I guess?) don’t find porno level sex noises as pleasurable as I do. If that’s you (the nuns, I mean) here are a few ideas for dealing with […] More
What’s a little jihad among friends? Losing your best friend can be heartbreaking. The reasons behind the end of any relationship are often very personal. Ideally, a best friend will be with you through thick and through thin… but these stories tell us differently. Redditor _haxden91 _got the proverbial ball rolling with the following question: […] More
Have you ever been involved in an incredibly toxic relationship? If so, then you’ll recognize how it becomes increasingly difficult to realize how toxic a person is the longer they are in your life. Before you know it, crazy is the new normal, and it takes something really really drastic to finally make you go, “oh […] More
For a lot of people, the idea of a polyamorous relationship might seem foreign and is often perceived negatively. I’m not sure if I am cut out for the whole open relationship thing, but from what I’ve learned there seems to be a broad spectrum of what that can entail. I’m a firm believer that […] More
Dating today is more complicated than Algebra. There are so many games, so many obstacles, and so many trends that it’s hard to wrap our head around just what is happening to us. It seems as though every day, new terms pop up into the Urban Dictionary of Love and we’re forced to decipher whether […] More
Being in a long-term relationship is, admittedly, awesome. That said, it also involves a lot of compromise, communication, and vulnerability. And, in most cases, it involves some decidedly unromantic behavior. More
I’m not searching for my “other half.” I’m not searching for the man who will complete me, fulfilling all my deepest desires and making me feel whole. I’m searching for a man who lingers in my mind but does not consume my every thought, a man who will never stifle my sense of autonomy. I’m […] More
No one ever wants to be in the wrong, especially when it comes to their relationship. However, more often than not, when things go south in a relationship it is because someone sabotaged the relationship. More
Dating is hard, because there’s so much confusion about what why it’s working or not. You think you’re getting along great, and then someone ghosts. You tell somebody you need space, and they blow up your phone with texts. Even if you’re both trying really hard, it sometimes feels like you’re never on the same […] More
Some people dream of the day they will move in with their significant other. Others curse the day they ever decided to do so. Either way, living with your significant other is a wonderful, hellish, beautiful situation that can go from happy to miserable in under 6 minutes. More
When I was in fifth grade, my teacher wheeled in a VHS-equipped television, plucked in a tape, and let the folks on the screen teach me and a dozen other 10-year-olds about penises and sex and menstruation and condoms and all of the lil details that accompany all of the above. Some people weren’t so […] More
