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Relationships

How To Keep A Girl For Ten Years: To Shack Up or Not To Shack Up?

Entering into the world of monogamy and dare I say, cohabitation is a terrifying new frontier and it’s arguably much safer to stay put in the safe confines of twin beds and roomies.

RobynC January 16, 2014 17 Comments
Relationships

How To Keep A Girl For 10 Years: She’s So High Above Me

On some level, we have all felt unworthy of something or someone at some point. Starting from the moment we step foot into any social structure or begin consuming Western media, we connect what or who we are able to achieve to how good we look.

RobynC December 27, 2013 29 Comments
Relationships

How To Keep A Girl For 10 Years: My Top Five Most Ridiculous Arguments And You

Throughout the years, my girlfriend and I have mastered the ancient art of “when to hold ’em and when to fold ’em” popularized by Kenny Rogers, though it took many years of bickering over truly absurd and frivolous matters to get here.

RobynC December 19, 2013 63 Comments
Relationships

How To Keep A Girl For Ten Years: Taking the Plunge into Pet Parenthood

The connection you develop with your pet will help define your sense of humanity better than most human relationships you have or ever will experience.

RobynC December 12, 2013 35 Comments
Relationships

How to Keep a Girl for 10 Years: 5 Steps To A Better Y’all!

In my first installment of How To Keep A Girl For Ten Years, I explore the notion of solidarity through individualism, selflessness and creativity!

RobynC December 5, 2013 91 Comments
Relationships

13 Ways to Make Your Long-Distance Relationship The Most Awesome Part of Your Life

You want to touch them, smell them and, if you’re me, bite their ear. Why don’t the forces of geography and physics rally to both your cries and fold the world up like origami until the front doors of your homes kiss?

Morgan M October 29, 2013 32 Comments
Relationships

The Secret to Lasting Love Is Staying the Hell Away From Each Other

“When you like someone and want to be with them, all you wanna do is see their face all the time. Coincidentally, seeing someone’s face all the time is exactly how to kill a relationship softly.”

Jezebel July 23, 2013 37 Comments
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You Need Help: When Relationships Feel Sorta Dull

“Is there a way to feel that passion and craziness again after 2.5 years together?”

Laneia July 5, 2013 33 Comments
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Home Sweet Homo: Moving Tips for Efficient U-Hauling

Moving isn’t fun. Here are some tips that won’t actually make it fun, but maybe survivable, and that’s a start.

Hansen June 14, 2013 22 Comments
Relationships

To Be A U-Haul Lesbian or Not To Be A U-Haul Lesbian: Almost Definitely Not

As predictable as the seasons themselves, it’s the start of the Annual Dyke Moving Season! Hoooraaaay!

Effing Dykes June 10, 2013 121 Comments
First Person Relationships

The (Over)Thinker: On How To Be A Human With Another Human

I wrote a letter to myself about over thinking in a relationship. Maybe I wrote this letter to you as well.

Brittani October 3, 2012 47 Comments
Relationships

Oh Hell No: When Your Girlfriend Publicly Hates on You

The thing about being publicly humiliated by someone you care about is that it occurs similarly to slight of hand magic. Here it is, right in the open, right in front of everyone’s face and yet, no one is sure of what exactly has happened.

gabby September 27, 2012 81 Comments
Relationships

Long-Distance Lesbian Relationships: How To Make Them Work And When To Call It Quits

There is no right or wrong way to be in a long-distance relationship — maybe you thrive on independence or maybe you just need cuddles at night. Here are some of my protips on how to make it work and when to know that it’s over.

Hansen September 20, 2012 77 Comments
Relationships

Run Anyway: Real Talk About Abusive Lesbian Relationships

“The further away I got, the clearer it became. She had been my first serious girlfriend after a succession of boyfriends, and I was more in love than I had ever been before. But the relationship stretched and accommodated behavior I likely would have never taken from a man.”

Gabrielle Korn August 21, 2012 95 Comments
Relationships

Boundaries: A Thing You Need

You love these people, but you still need your space.

Jezebel March 9, 2012 26 Comments
Money + Work Relationships

You Need Help: Your Girlfriend is Permanently Unemployed, Maybe

What to do when a temporary situation starts looking like a permanent personality trait.

Riese February 13, 2012 60 Comments
Relationships

Mind The (Age) Gap: How to Do a May/December Lesbian Relationship

May-December (or even May-October) romances can present occasional challenges, they can also be awesome.

Butch Wonders February 8, 2012 144 Comments
Relationships

You Need Help: Your Girlfriend Is Jealous Of Hypothetical Boys

In which you need your girlfriend to know you’re not about to leave her for a dude.

Rachel January 3, 2012 147 Comments
Relationships

You Need Help: When Your Girlfriend is Abusive

“Two or three things I know, two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is that if we are not beautiful to each other, we cannot know beauty in any form.”

Riese January 2, 2012 63 Comments
Relationships

In the Pool With Cougar, Scaring the Straight People, Getting The Homophobia

Sometimes we are reminded we live in a heteronormative world in the unlikeliest of places.

Bevin August 12, 2011 43 Comments
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