Category: relationships
Hanging Out with Exes
Breakups are hard. All of them. Whether you’d convinced yourself you had found a soul mate or simply dated someone exclusively to help fill a void, flipping that mental switch from “in a relation... Read More
How to Get Stuck with Something You Definitely Don’t Want
Forcing 'love, marriage, and the baby carriage', while potentially appealing in the short term, will inevitably lead to disappointment, resentment, and unhappiness in the long term. ... Read More
The Things You Lose in a Breakup
Some people might say that in the wake of a breakup you mourn the loss of your lover, your confidante, your best friend. You might feel as if you’ve lost your sounding board, your cuddle buddy, your... Read More
The Perfect on Paper Guy
We’ve all met him. The Perfect on Paper Guy. The man who went to Princeton undergrad, before attending Johns Hopkins Med school and finished at the top of his class, all while running a non-... Read More
The Ultimate Relationship Test
It seems a universal truth that the generally innocuous activity of couple’s kayaking is actually the ultimate relationship test. I don’t know what it is exactly about this date idea that's so hor... Read More
How to Beat the Odds
Marrying someone doesn’t mean your love life gets any less messy. It just means that you’re experiencing all those ups and downs, and i-love-yous and i-hate-yous with one person.... Read More
Relationship Blank Spaces
Though I consider myself pretty naive when it comes to understanding and appreciating art, I spoke with a few graphic designers recently about what makes a piece compelling. It’s common to hear the... Read More
When Everything is Different
My mother always told me, when it comes to finding The One, “when you know, you know.” Those words bounced around my brain for years. They endured through numerous relationships – always sourin... Read More