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Don't Lose Your Friends

When John and Liz began dating this past summer, I couldn't have been more happy for them. Despite being completely different people, they were both my friends and both had good character qualities. I had been friends…
My "Daddy Issues" are Hurting Our Relationship

I was always told to be careful with men based on the hostile environment in which I spent my adolescence. My father went off the deep end in 2004 around the time I turned 14, and never got better. He immersed himself i…
The Story of a Failed Set Up

About three months ago, I started a new job as a front desk agent at a local hotel. Shortly thereafter, I met our Sales Manager, T. Upon our second interaction, T. decided he had a rather important question for me. "Are…
Is Profession on Your Checklist?

I was just conversing with my friend and started to tell him a bit about my ex-boyfriend. We’ve been broken up since December, and it took me a bit of time to get over him, as he was my first in many aspects of t…
Dreaming about a Former SO: Is it Normal?

In mid-December, I was broken up with for the first time. There was a span of two weeks between the last time I saw him and the day that he sent a text that said, "I really don't see us getting out of this without a br…