It always starts the same. My roommates and I are sitting around the dinner table, catching up on our days. The topic shifts to the weekend and each of them hum off their Friday night date plans – each more...
Romantic-comedies have long been known for giving us unrealistic relationship expectations. Lately, with the creation of every sort of dating app you could ever dream of, it seems like things have only gotten worse. Sure, there’s an app to...
He’s probably working out right now. Or napping. Maybe his phone died? Or was I trying to be too quirky? Too forward? But I should be myself, right? I’ve spent way too much time of my life making these justifications,...
I was sitting around a folding table at my high school friends’ 7th annual Friendsgiving. I realized I could count on one hand the number of single people in the room – including myself. And there were about 30...
Seventy-two years of “going together.” Sixty-four years of marriage. Ten children, 36 grandchildren, and 19 great grandchildren later—88-year-old, Georgene Reynolds considers herself the richest woman alive. How many right swipes does it take to achieve that? Is 72 years of...
Call me a gold digger, a girl with daddy issues, shameless, sugar baby, escort or simply, a girl infatuated with a man who happens to be older…30 years older. I thought it was disgusting when my cousin – who is...
Let’s face it: first kisses are never not awkward. They’re not like the movies; there’s never any fireworks or pouring rain in the background. Sure, some are better than others. And some are definitely worse than others. We asked...
I’m the queen of one-sided love. Not the kind of one-sided love where men are falling at my feet. It’s the other way around. Unfortunately. I’m Kate Winslet’s character in The Holiday. But hey, at least Kate Winslet gets to play me in...

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