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You Need Help: How To Date While Dealing With Mental Illness
Dating has often felt like a game I don’t know how to play. “An elaborate puzzle,” as you say. One where the pieces are sharp as knives that cut to the core of my deepest insecurities.
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You Need Help: How Can I Date When I’m So Scared To?
Dating requires so much vulnerability, and a fear of rejection can be such a roadblock. So, what can we do to confront that roadblock?
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A Love Letter to Cuddle Dates
I love cuddle dates because they’re my neurodivergent heaven: comfy and quiet. They also fit into anti-heteronormative approaches to romance and affection.
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You Need Help: How Do I Convince My Girlfriend That I Care?
It sounds like she’s looking for something you just can’t give her, and that’s okay. Your life is very full at the moment. It’s not too full for the right relationship, but it may be too full for THIS relationship.
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You Need Help: I’m a 16 Year-old Lesbian Asking ‘What Is Love?’
“How do I get myself to understand what love can really be, after the initial sparks fade?”
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You Need Help: On Dating During a Health Scare
I am sending you and your person all my love and wishes for competent and compassionate medical care, swift healing, and fruitful conversations in the future about your growing relationship.
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Dating as a Single Dyke in My 60s
Singlehood in my late 50s to early 60s feels like trying to climb a sheer mountain cliff armed with only a bottle of lube
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You Need Help: How to Be Gay In Public
Being gay in public can be daunting, and it is not only because PDA discourse is fraught with questions of respectability and modesty. No, for us in the LGBTQ+ community, it can be a matter of life and death, so I completely understand your confusion and possible hesitance around showing PDA to your partner.
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Pushing Daddy Harder: What Being a Bisexual Sugar Baby Has Taught Me
Dancing around his apartment with a bottle of Dom Perignon in hand, I learned I couldn’t speak for anyone but myself.
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How to Successfully Flirt With the Babe of Your Dreams on Instagram
Any app is a dating app if you have confidence and a good selfie. Combine that attitude with Instagram’s many features for actually getting to know what someone is like and connecting with their life, and you’re halfway to adopting a cat with someone or just sucking their face off, whichever you’re looking for.
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“Wait, Is This a Date?” Podcast Episode 105: Best Sex Ever
Our episode topic this week is Best Sex Ever so we are talking about… the best sex we’ve ever had! We’re joined by Autostraddle writer, poet, and journalist Dani Janae as we get into what makes good sex good.
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“I’m Not Missing Anything in My Relationship”: Bi Women and Nonbinary People on the Challenges and Joys of Dating
Bi people’s dating experiences are often complicated by biphobia and sometimes, a feeling of isolation from both queer and straight monosexual people.
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Poly Pocket: Gray Ace, Bi & Poly
“Being queer, Asian-American, femme, and gray ace — this is my identity and I get to choose what that means to me.”
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12 Tips for Seducing Someone Who Identifies as a Witch
Be a Taurus. If that’s not your sign, figure out how for it to be your sign.
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You Need Help: How Do I Break Up With a Casual Someone?
So you want to break up? Don’t be mean. Be honest.
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Sober in the City: Adventures in Sober Dating
“I could not wrap my head around having to jump back into the dating scene – sober no less. Where would I find suitable dating candidates? How do I “come out” as sober? It’s bad enough that the queer dating pool is incredibly small. Now, I had to contend with the fact that some people would be averse to dating a sober recovering addict.”
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High Femme: You’re On a Smoke Date, Dandelion!
She’s coming over for a hangout. And she’s bringing an eighth of OG Kush.
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Am I On A Date Or Are We Just Two Pretty Girls Hanging Out?
“There was so much fucking estrogen and so many ladies who fist other ladies in that building, my ovaries tried to reproduce asexually.”
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MINI-ROUNDTABLE + OPEN THREAD: Let’s Discuss That Straight Girl You Want to Cuddle
We are all made of masochistic kittens. Or are we?