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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In my first installment of How To Keep A Girl For Ten Years, I explore the notion of solidarity through individualism, selflessness and creativity!
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?
“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.”
“Is there a way to feel that passion and craziness again after 2.5 years together?”
Moving isn’t fun. Here are some tips that won’t actually make it fun, but maybe survivable, and that’s a start.
As predictable as the seasons themselves, it’s the start of the Annual Dyke Moving Season! Hoooraaaay!
I wrote a letter to myself about over thinking in a relationship. Maybe I wrote this letter to you as well.
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.
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.
“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.”
You love these people, but you still need your space.
What to do when a temporary situation starts looking like a permanent personality trait.
May-December (or even May-October) romances can present occasional challenges, they can also be awesome.
In which you need your girlfriend to know you’re not about to leave her for a dude.
“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.”
Sometimes we are reminded we live in a heteronormative world in the unlikeliest of places.