Battered Spouse Syndrome: Why Victims Don’t Leave
What these people don’t understand is the psychological difference between outsiders and victims.
6 Ways That Feminism Insults And Demeans Women While Claiming To Protect Them
The earliest waves of feminism fought long and hard to give women all the rights and some of the responsibilities of adulthood. Today, we don’t need a movement that undermines women’s agency and adulthood.
23 Painfully True Lessons You Learn By Age 23
You are not your failures or rejections. You are not the boy who couldn’t love you, the job you couldn’t get, the school who wait-listed you.
10 Ways I Know My Boyfriend Is “The One”
People have different meanings for love and show their love in different ways. Therefore, it is important to be with someone who shows you love the way you want to be loved.
What Your Secret Sexual Desires Say About You
Accepting that you have these desires doesn’t make you sinful or wrong; it empowers you. And by empowering yourself, you’re better able to address those desires, even the dark, disturbing ones, in ways that are safe, sane, and consensual.
7 Important Lessons You Can Only Learn From A Failed Relationship
If you’re blaming past relationships for your emotional baggage, don’t, because the time spent on a failed relationship was not time wasted.
5 Sneaky Things Narcissists Do To Take Advantage Of You
It’s important in any kind of relationship that we learn to identify the red flags when interacting with people who display malignant narcissism and/or antisocial traits, so we can better protect ourselves from exploitation and abuse, set appropriate boundaries with others, and make informed decisions about who we keep in our lives.
6 Extremely Weird Movies You Can Watch On Netflix Tonight
A patently ludicrous cult thriller about Devil worship and human sacrifice in which Martin Sheen screams a lot, The Believers occupies a strange space between camp and grim mean-spiritedness (the opening scene seems specifically designed to have traumatically scarred me as a child, which is exactly what it did).
My Husband And I Didn’t Ask The Realtor If Anything Bad Ever Happened In Our House, It Was The Biggest Mistake Of Our Lives
The moment the priest walked through the door, he turned his nose up at the ceiling and a look of general distaste formed across his once expressionless face. He turned to look at my husband and I, but then caught himself and just nodded. “And who were the previous owners of this place?”
10 Stereotypes Straight People Need To Stop Believing About The LGBT Community
I was at a corner store the other day picking up some late snacks after work, when a man was telling the counter person how that “faggot” gave him a look.
4 Life Lessons We Can All Learn From The Kardashians
Life must go on and new memories can be cultivated. Change is okay. Change is healthy.
50 Rules For Daughters
I posted “50 Rules for Sons” in anticipation of my son Stephen’s graduation from high school. This year I am posting my “50 Rules for Daughters” for Sophie, 17 years old, and Hallie, 13 years old.
How You Forget You’re Worth Loving
When you accept something awful for long enough, you start forgetting that you should be demanding more.
19 Things Every 19-Year-Old Girl Needs To Hear Right Now
As much as I would’ve loved to be a completely independent woman with no emotions at age 19, I wasn’t.
25 Professions And What It’s Like To Date Someone Who’s In Them
This will always be a three-way relationship: You, them, and their mobile device. Accept it and move on.
6 Yahoo! Answer Questions About Pregnancy That’ll Make You Cry
19 People Who Went Missing Reveal Their Incredible (And Sometimes Downright Terrifying) Stories
10 Haunted Places In Michigan That Will Make Your Skin Crawl
Although the house no longer remains many witnesses claim they can hear the screams and cries of Virginia begging her husband for mercy.