Why Is It So Damn Hard to Build a Good Lesbian Breakup Playlist?
I don’t want to put any songs on my breakup playlist that any of my exes have used, or are using, to woo their new girlfriends.
breakups
The Unique Grief of Ending a BDSM Relationship
Breaking up is hard to do, but what do we know about breakups between Dominant and submissive? This is a personal exploration of how grief settles when the collar comes off.
5 Things to Know About Dating Again After Your Gay Breakup
I’m not saying this summer will necessarily be a Summer of Breakups again — although it’s true there are two eclipses in Cancer season this year, yikes — but if you do find yourself suddenly among our number, I and many others are here to tell you that some semblance of a love life does exist on the other side of breakups, even if it doesn’t feel like it right now.
For Your Consideration: Bridges
When everything starts moving too fast, I like to walk on bridges.
For Your Consideration: Introduction to Women’s Studies
I didn’t know then that Devon would become one of those women in my life who’s there for good, who I could not text for months and then suddenly dive right back in with. One of those friends who would show up, who would stay.
For Your Consideration: Eating Seafood With Your Hands
Over the past four years, I fell in love, traveled many places, had my heart broken, unraveled. I also ate a lot of seafood platters. Here are some of them.
50 Ways to Leave Your (Lesbian) Lover
12. Sometimes Love Doesn’t Win, Quinn
For Your Consideration: 30 Slightly Unhinged Post-Breakup Activities That Aren’t Actually That Bad
Embrace a little chaos without getting in trouble with your therapist.
For Your Consideration: Asking for Directions
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but it is perfectly fine and legal to ask someone for directions when you are lost.
How To Change Your Hair Dramatically After a Breakup
Seize control of your image! Be hot as a form of revenge! Do it for you! Just feel good about something in a time when it’s so easy to feel bad about everything!
For Your Consideration: Changing Associations After a Breakup
For when wiping the slate completely clean isn’t really an option.
For Your Consideration: Read Your Enemy’s Horoscope
If you are seeking wise, wholesome advice about heartbreak, this is admittedly not the right place to find it today.
How to Handle Being Newly Single at the Holidays
If you’re on team single for the season and not sure how to be okay, read on, make a game plan, and know that the warm fuzzy happy holiday feelings are there for you if you want them.
Intervention
I had “dressed” myself before driving drunk to my mother’s home. I had taken a shower thinking that water would take away the smell; that putting on leggings instead of leggings-that-I-slept-and-drank-in, would make me look like I was wearing clothes; that if I put on mascara I’d look like I had slept through the night and not spent the whole day drinking.
A+ Mini-Roundtable: Oh, This Old Thing? It Used to Belong to My Ex
Finders keepers…
Your Ex’s Bad Breakup Behavior, According to Their Sign
An unscientific exploration of the totally uncalled for post-breakup behavior your ex will definitely possibly exhibit based on their sign.
55 Questions to Obsessively Ask Yourself After a Lesbian Breakup
26. Will I ever stop talking about this?
9 Books That Got Us Through Breakups, We’ll Just Leave Them Right Here For You
Here, thought you might need this.
You Need Help: Post-Divorce Feelings
“It’s so important to learn lessons from past loves without them negatively affecting or preventing us from being able to give our all to future loves. How to do that, though, is so difficult, and I guess is the work of being human.”
Y’All Need Help #21: You’ll All Be Painters
Being shy and 27 and coming out, feeling a way about your exes, moving to your long-distance girlfriend’s city, telling your long-distance friend you’re crushing on her, and swing dancing!