“The only thing scarier than telling someone you love them is telling them that you still love them.”Tagged: Love, Relationships, Breakups, Getting Back Together, I Love You
“What is a kiss if I can’t devote entire personal essays to understanding what it meant, what I want, where we’re going? What is a kiss if it doesn’t make me ask questions?”Tagged: Kisses, chemistry, Love, Love And Sex, Kissing
“We actively create our public selves, every day, one social media post at a time.”Tagged: Privacy, The Digital Age, Doxxing, Going Viral, Virality
“When we are having sex, I am his. I’m yours. I’m your good girl.”Tagged: Kink, bdsm, Dominating, Submissive Male, Sex
“Survivor’s guilt goes down your throat with a burn like the Fireball Whiskey we were obsessed with at age sixteen. It also wakes you up. None of us is important enough to be a shitty friend.”Tagged: Death, Grief, Loss, Healing
“The challenge of suicide radio isn’t not obeying it. The challenge of suicide radio is identifying it for what it is: an impostor.”Tagged: Sucide, Suicidal Ideation, Mental Illness
“Women are sold a lie about sex. The lie is that our sexuality is dangerous to ourselves and to others.”Tagged: Sex, sexuality, Women's Sexuality , Desperate, Slut Shaming
“She is waiting for me. Not to make a move or make up my mind or anything like that. She’s waiting for me to heal.”Tagged: Queer, Bisexuality, sexuality, crushes, WLW
“You deserve conversation, flirtation, consideration. You deserve all of the fucks, my friend.”Tagged: Texting, Partners, Relationships, Dating
“Most women have some names, I think. Names of men who come to mind as threats. Men who have lashed out before, or men who seem to store their rage in their chests as they sneer and criticize.”Tagged: Misogyny, Violence
“All people really want to read is this: What energy did they bring to conversations? What memory do you have of them that stands out? What’s the truth about them that we all know but are too polite to address?”Tagged: Grief, Loss, Death, obituary
“I’m afraid that there is no cure for burnout. After all, you can’t untoast toast.”Tagged: Burnout, Mental Health, Careers, Millennials, Hustle
“There are no love stories, no romance novels, no television plot lines that show us how to desire someone with a sexually transmitted infection. The lone exception is the canon (positive and negative) of HIV stories, but HIV and HSV share little more than letters.”Tagged: Herpes, Dating
“No one seems to be writing about the worst man, either because it’s a spoiler or because they don’t know what to do with him. What do we do with Ryan?”Tagged: Promising Young Woman
“Boy crazy slutty whore. Boyfriend stealer. Maybe that girl likes being slapped.”Tagged: Sex, Nonconsenual Violence , Assault
“Disclosing your STI lets your partner know that they can trust you. You’ll be amazed by what they might tell you once that trust is established.”Tagged: STIs , Sex, Sex and Love, sex life, sexuality