Love

If you happen to find yourself both above the age of 27 and in a relationship for any more than 12 months, you best be prepared to answer the question that’s no doubt coming your way from every corner of your world: so…when are you two getting engaged??* It’s a curious question for more reasons that one. First of all, female people don’t typically know …

My friend Rachel Hollis wrote a very brave piece for HuffPost Women yesterday about her experience with sex in her 20s. It’s called, I Only Had One Kind Of Sex In My 20s, And It Was Amazing.  Rachel wrote this very brave piece in response to another HuffPost Women piece called 15 Types Of Sex You Have In Your 20s. Here is an excerpt from …

Katie passed me a link to this very interesting article yesterday afternoon. Here’s the gist: “Being intimate with multiple partners while in college has become so expected that it has become a stereotype. And, after a crazy weekend of partying, students love to gossip about who ‘hooked up’ with who.  But that’s not to say every college student is participating in risky sexual promiscuity. In …

One of my very best friends just gave birth to the very first baby among my set of very best friends. Her name is Zadie Patricia, and she is perfect. I know people say that about all babies, but they’re wrong. This baby is the most perfect baby of them all, and that’s a fact. After Zadie was born I got to thinking about dating …

I know I’m supposed to be writing my super important script all week, but I’m taking a break from that to share an important story slash message. A few days ago I received an e-mail from a reader wondering whether or not to move on from a relationship. The details of her situation will of course remain private, but she mentioned something that made me …

Hey friends – I’m taking a break from formal posts this week to crank on a feature I’m writing, but in my absence I leave you with this GEM of a website from some geniuses who appear to be male. It’s as simple as the graphic suggests. You post his text, and the “bros” at HeTexted.com reply with the meaning. Why it’s taken this long …

Two years ago today R told me to be his girlfriend. It happened some time between 11pm and 1am on the night of my L.A. housewarming party. R claims that I was introducing him to everyone as, “the guy I’m dating,” and he wasn’t having that. He said something like, “Enough of this. We’re either together or we’re not.” I said something like, “I know…but …

When I hear that someone is in a long distance relationship, I assume that distance is from, say, LA to New York or Chicago to DC or Austin, Texas to Sydney, Australia (I actually “knew someone who”). I do not assume that distance is from, say, Silver Lake to Santa Monica or the Upper East Side to Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn or Clarendon, Virginia to downtown …