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You Need Help: I Was in a Relationship With Someone Who Didn’t Like Me
Does anybody have experience feeling angry with a person after the break up and the anger kind of growing?
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You Need Help: How Can I Help With Someone Else’s Fear of Dating?
Sometimes, people get on dating apps before they’re really ready to date.
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You Need Help: I’m Not Sure I Want To Be Friends With My Ex
Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to lean into your gut feeling.
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You Need Help: Wanting To Move In Together but Unsure About Sharing Bed With Dog
“My girlfriend has a super sweet lab mix who I love dearly, but I’m very new to the concept of sleeping with a dog in the bed. I thought they made dog beds for this exact reason?!”
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You Need Help: How Can I Plan for a Bad Breakup?
A breakup is a huge loss, and sometimes that doesn’t even just mean losing a person but other parts of your life, too.
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You Need Help: Your Friend Takes Everything Super Personally
What I hear from the anecdotes you shared is someone who is deeply lonely and feels deeply unseen, but you can’t be your friend’s therapist, even if you want what’s best for her.
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You Need Help: I Live With My Partner and Their Ex-Girlfriend and It’s Getting Hard
“I’m a lesbian in my early twenties and I have been in a relationship with my enby partner for a year and a half. We share a flat with several other (queer) people in Copenhagen, one of whom is my partner’s ex-girlfriend.”
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You Need Help: How Do I Navigate Misgendering as a Nonbinary Femme?
Your work is not to make yourself more palatable to those who might misunderstand you. Your work is to be your glorious full self, too complex to be pigeonholed by any other person on this earth. And if your friends can’t respect you? They’re not your people.
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You Need Help: Everyone Thinks I’m Lying To Myself About My Gender
“If you were to ask me my gender, I’d say ‘lesbian.’ The problem is people in my life will not stop asking me if I’m nonbinary or trans. Everyone keeps asking if I have new pronouns.”
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You Need Help: My Sister Loves Me, the Sinner, but Hates the Sin
I’ve been willing to put this aside and accept the love she’s willing to give me. But it’s all come to a head now that my health insurance finally approved my top surgery.
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You Need Help: How Do I Make Myself Like My Girlfriend’s Cat?
You already did things right by talking about this before moving in together. Now it’s time to talk some more.
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You Need Help: Can My Spouse and I Boil Our Menstrual Cups Together?
“Is there any sanitary reason NOT to?”
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You Need Help: When Is the Right Time To Talk About Being Exclusive in a Relationship?
And do I have to have the conversation in person when we’re long distance?
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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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You Need Help: How Do I Get Over the First Woman I Slept With?
Focusing your energy on moving on and healing rather than trying to reconnect is the best path forward — and not just for you, but for her, too.
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You Need Help: Am I Being Unreasonable for Feeling Undesired by My Girlfriend?
I think the topic of Asian desire doesn’t get nuanced attention often enough.
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You Need Help: How Can I Make Long Distance More Bearable?
Long distance will always be challenging; here are the ways you can strengthen the way you navigate those challenges.
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You Need Help: You Fat-Shamed Your Beautiful Girlfriend
If your girlfriend wrote into this column with this story, I would tell her she should break up with you.
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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 Moved Closer to My Girlfriend but She’s Too Busy for Me
The person who moved shouldn’t be the only person experiencing change.