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Relationships

You Need Help: Your Girlfriend Makes More Money Than You, Just Wants to Have Fun

“How can I support the way she wants to live and not drown in debt?”

Heather Hogan August 9, 2018 36 Comments
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AF+ Issues Relationships

A+ Roundtable: What’s Your Relationship Kryptonite?

What types of relationship situations or people are you often drawn to even though you know they’re bad for you and will destroy you?

the team August 2, 2018 72 Comments
Dating Relationships

You Need Help: Is Love Really a Lie? Should You Even Try?

It’s a hard time to have hope, but friends, don’t give up.

Heather Hogan June 30, 2018 41 Comments
Relationships

You Need Help: Your Potential Throuple Turned Into a Couple and Someone’s Feeling Left Behind

“If y’all are close friends, you might want to make this sacrifice/compromise to preserve the friendship. Generally speaking, friends are more important than lovers, depending on how close of a friend they are.”

Abbie Jones May 15, 2018 2 Comments
Relationships

Six Queers on Polyamory and Identity

“Polyamory and queerness are pretty much inseparable for me in practice.”

Ryan Yates May 15, 2018 5 Comments
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Relationships

You Need Help: Long-Distance Relationships

So far away! Courtney Trouble gets blunt about LDRs.

Courtney Trouble May 14, 2018 7 Comments
Relationships

Five Poly People on Navigating Jealousy in Any Type of Relationship

Everyone gets jealous. It’s how you handle it that counts.

Ryan Yates April 17, 2018 12 Comments
Relationships

Monday Roundtable: The Real and Fictional Couples Who Inspired Our Very First Relationship Goals

Whether we saw them on screen or in real life, we took notice of these dynamic couples and their undeniable chemistry and love.

the team April 2, 2018 61 Comments
Relationships

Y’All Need Help #20: Is This Too Many Metaphors?

Your family buys you weird gifts, your mom is kinda rude about your long-distance girlfriend, and you can’t move on after this breakup. Let’s get some shit done! Come on!

Laneia February 24, 2018 19 Comments
Relationships

Monday Roundtable: How We Knew We Were In Love

Here’s when we knew deep in our bones we were goners.

the team February 12, 2018 40 Comments
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Relationships

Monday Roundtable: The Wildest Things We Did For Love

“I essentially stole my brother’s car and drove it an hour away across state lines to go see my then-girlfriend for only 30 minutes while my parents thought I was at the movies”

the team November 13, 2017 41 Comments
Relationships

These Two Factors Make You More Likely To Be Into Non-Monogamy

More people than ever are in non-monogamous relationships, and new research sheds light on what factors make people — and specifically queer people — more likely to be into them.

Ryan Yates October 19, 2017 24 Comments
Dating Relationships

Y’All Need Help #10: Your Crushes Are Killing

Today is all about crushes and what you should do about them: something, or nothing? Three questions, three answers. Only the strong survive. It takes two to tango. Love is a battlefield. Loose lips sink ships!

Laneia September 23, 2017 35 Comments
Relationships

How To Move in With a Partner and Still Like Each Other After

Sure, it’s nice to have an extra person to help you carry boxes, but who will carry all of these feelings?

Adrian September 14, 2017 4 Comments
Relationships Sex

You Need Help: Even Sex Gods Get Anxious Sometimes

Share your feelings with your partner, stud.

Christina Tesoro August 22, 2017 4 Comments
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Relationships

Queer Crip Love Fest: Love Is Showing Up

For the final installment of Queer Crip Love Fest, we turn the cute up to 11.

Carrie July 20, 2017 24 Comments
Relationships Sex

You Need Help: Grad School Killed Your Sex Life

Instead of thinking about how your sex life is dead, think about how it could be reborn.

Christina Tesoro June 14, 2017 7 Comments
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Relationships

Queer Crip Love Fest: More Seen Than I’ve Ever Felt

An A-Camp love story to help ease your comedown!

Carrie May 25, 2017 19 Comments
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Relationships

Queer Crip Love Fest: We Make it Radical

“I try and proudly practice calling my body home, to truly inhabit my body, to feel what it feels like to live inside these muscles that bend and curl, and to feel proud of it, and no longer ashamed. This is queer crip pride.”

Carrie May 11, 2017 9 Comments
Relationships

Poly Pocket: If You Don’t Take Care Of Yourself, It Just Doesn’t Work

“I have a relationship to myself first. If that relationship isn’t solid and healthy I’m not good with anyone.”

Ryan Yates April 20, 2017 1 Comment
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