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Relationships

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If you’ve never been to the American Museum of Natural History before, let me tell you about the whale.

Anya Richkind May 18, 2023 12 Comments
slow-cooking pork, Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya and her fiancé Kristen smiling together, and a spread of pork tacos toppings
Food and Drink Relationships

Dykes on Dates: Tender Pork Tacos That Are Too Good To Be True

There’s probably a joke in here about being a bottom, but genuinely a lot of my favorite date night dinners involve, well, toppings.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya May 4, 2023 1 Comment
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Relationships

Dykes on Dates: Here’s a Picnic Menu That Feels Fancy but Is Cheap and Easy

In which I forget a crucial part of our picnic at home but we still have a lovely time anyway.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya April 20, 2023 12 Comments
Relationships

Dykes on Dates: Parents Weekend

We went on a bunch of double dates with my parents, and it made me realize our relationships are more similar than I thought.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya April 6, 2023 16 Comments
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Relationships

How Polyamory Pushed Me to Prioritize My Pelvic Health

Communicating openly about sex and pelvic health with my partners helps me advocate for myself in medical settings.

Samantha Puc April 3, 2023 5 Comments
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Relationships

Dykes on Dates: Sometimes Date Night Is Just Chips, Dips, and a Drink Tasting

This was truly the least amount of food prep I’ve ever done for an at-home date night.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya March 23, 2023 14 Comments
a couple sits outside in a field, looking worried and somber, holding each other
Relationships

You Need Help: My Partner and I Disagree About Our COVID Risk Reduction Practices

Sometimes, after dealing with an active crisis as a team, it’s the period afterward that can start to pull us apart. There’s more time and space for your individual needs and feelings; it’s not surprising that this is when the resentment can really start to build!

Darcy March 14, 2023 3 Comments
an overhead shot of a homemade pizza with tiny fried eggs on it, Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya holding a chicken tikka masala pizza, and a homemade pizza on a cutting board on a table set up for date night
Relationships

Dykes on Dates: Tips for Topping (Homemade Pizza)

You don’t have to be a seasoned home chef to make pizza date night a reality! I’ve got tips for all skill levels and price points.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya March 9, 2023 7 Comments
A background of a bowling alley and then three images: one of Kristen Arnett in khakis drinking a beer and holding a bowling ball, one of a sign for Aloma Bowl against a night sky, and one of Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya from behind, bowling in a magenta jumpsuit
Relationships

Dykes on Dates: Bowling Is the Epitome of Romance

You get to talk a bunch, like a dinner date but with an added activity — one almost insists you stare at your partner’s ass.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya February 23, 2023 14 Comments
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Relationships

Heart Whisperer: How I Found My Way to a Love That’s Lasted 45 Years

In the autumn of 1977, I met the partner of my dreams, and we’ve been sailing through life together ever since.

Ellen Ziegler February 14, 2023 35 Comments
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Relationships

You Need Help: My Partner Keeps Saying We’re Going to Break Up!

The fact that you feel affected by what your partner tells you, even when they’re not their best self, is not inappropriate or bad. It’s human.

Darcy February 14, 2023 11 Comments
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House & Garden Relationships

Homo Reno: 13 Tips for Keeping Your 5 Year Queer Relationship Intact While Renovating the House You Live In

Sometimes you are going to have to undertake a project during which it will be inevitable that you will scream at each other. My advice is to just kind of pretend it didn’t happen.

Nico February 14, 2023 27 Comments
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Relationships

You Need Help: I Think My Partner Is Emotionally Cheating On Me

The idea that we must save our intimate, intense feelings only for our partners is a deeply heteronormative one, and I don’t want us to adhere to it.

KaeLyn February 7, 2023 28 Comments
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Relationships

When One of Us Transitioned, Our Relationship Changed for the Better

By the time the lockdown lifted, she (Lucy) had kicked a life-long nail biting habit, and I (Summer) had come out as transgender.

Summer Tao and Lucy Aalto
February 6, 2023 14 Comments
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Relationships

You Need Help: How Do I Know if I’m Really Attracted to My Partner?

Humans can sometimes be unreliable narrators of our own lives.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya January 24, 2023 7 Comments
A woman with a backpack on a mountain, hiking away.
Relationships

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.

Heather Hogan January 17, 2023 175 Comments
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Relationships

You Need Help: I Feel Like I’m My Girlfriend’s Second Choice

I want you to start 2023 feeling like your own number-one pick. That way, when the right person comes along, you’ll be ready and confident to be her number-one pick, too.

Vanessa January 3, 2023 14 Comments
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Relationships

How I’m Rewriting the “Trophy Wife” Script As a Queer Trans Woman

I want to be treasured for my many wonderful qualities beneath the surface and held proudly by the person who chooses to date me.

Summer Tao December 5, 2022 3 Comments
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Relationships

You Need Help: I Want to Work on Myself, How Do I Do That?

I have behaviors I notice that spill into my relationship that stem from personal issues. I want to be a better person to myself, and my partner. I want to feel like my cup is full as I am, and then be able to use that to help fill our cup.

Abbie Jones November 29, 2022 25 Comments
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Life Relationships

You Need Help: What To Do With This Meaningless, Single Life?

I want to try to hold space here for both: for your (and my, really) pain and for the possibility that you may not feel this way forever.

himani November 22, 2022 68 Comments
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