Tips For Being A Healthy Couple
Men, as a general precept, are exponentially less likely to ask for affirmation or demand it, but that doesn’t mean they don’t need to hear it.
Having An Ex Who Hates You
This whole time I thought you were just some emotionless zombie who didn’t really care about me but I now know that’s not true. You don’t delete someone from your life if you don’t care about them.
Ligers and Tigons and Multiracial Kids… Oh My!
When I was a boy, if you were multiracial you learned pretty quickly there was no clearly designed spaced for you in the world.
24 Painful Things You Must Do To Grow Up
Realizing that some people are making the transition from “crazy kid who parties a little too much” to “person who has a serious problem with drinking/drug use,” and that there may be nothing you can do to help them.
3 Pieces Of Advice I’d Give My 18-Year-Old Self If I Could
Don’t sell your time to someone else’s purpose. You can do better. Be poor for a while if that’s what it will take.
22 Changes You Make In Your 20s
Becoming more acutely aware of how precious all the time you have with your older family members is, and how not a single day with them is guaranteed.
What Does A Strong Female Role Model Look Like?
Wonder Woman embodies the contradictions of any female hero in popular culture.
5 Signs You Definitely Don’t Have Your Shit Together
My euphoria was short-lived, however, when I realized that I would actually have to put the duvet cover on my new comforter. This is probably the least favorite chore for everybody but to me, it’s an impossible task. I tried for an hour to get that comforter into the diva duvet but the two weren’t having it.
21 Ways to Help Yourself Heal
7. Listen to your parents and friends more often and trust them with your problems, while also remembering to be true to yourself and your own instincts.
I Failed The Bar Exam
I am a bar exam failer. Nearly three years ago, I, like you, fruitlessly scanned the list of numbers to find that one had been omitted. Mine. 364.
I Hate Being A Pretty Girl
I can, and have literally gone around a bar taking drinks from guys: paying with nothing but an enchanting smile — because I can.
You Don't Deserve Me
I was not lucky to have you. I was not chosen by some divine spirit who looked past my physical flaws to gift me with your half-hearted attention.
Things I’ve Learned From Writing Under A Gender-Neutral Name
When someone wants to tear apart my writing — because I had the gall to suggest that society is racist or sexist — they often bring up my presumed gender to do so. I’m interpellated as “that girl,” “a chick on the internet.”
Oops, I Accidentally Wasted My Entire 20s (And I Feel Fine)
These articles talk about the misery that results from indecision in one’s twenties, and I believe that part is true. Indecision is miserable. But the articles are wrong about the true source of this misery.
The Most Underrated Movies Of The Last 10 Years
25 Things You Don’t Have To Justify To Anyone
How many friends you have. One is enough. A hundred is enough. And there is no need to falsely upgrade acquaintances to “friend” status in your mind simply to fill out the ranks. A true friend is rare, and we don’t need to make it a competition for who has the most.
You Want Someone Who Will Be With You When You’re Sick
Even if they said they wanted to be beside me, I’d start to feel guilty and probably suspect they’re only there out of obligation — or not wanting to look like the dirtbag who dumps the sick girl.
The 10 Essentials For Any Good Relationship
If someone tells you they don’t want marriage and kids, and that they aren’t going to change their mind, please do everyone a favor and listen to them.