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Are Fights Healthy for a Relationship to Move Forward?

Are fights healthy for a relationship to move forward and grow? Pause for confused reaction to what seems like a really stupid question. How can fighting in any capacity be good? What about talking through problems and…
Balancing Womanhood

My father thought I’d be pregnant by the time I reached my fifteenth birthday. I know this because my mother repeated the last words he told her before they separated over and over during my adolescence. It was ea…
Relationships Are Like a House

I was sitting on the floor of my friend D's apartment last week, having a couple of beers and musing about life. My boyfriend of 4 years and I had just gotten into a fight, and I needed to take a couple of hours to br…
Seperate but Equal Lives

This is something I have spent a a great deal of time thinking about lately. Perhaps it's the immature child inside or maybe I'm on to something, not that it is by any means a novel way of thinking: living single but be…
Let's Get Physical...Separately

I am a relatively active person and I go to the gym most days of the week. I like going for runs and I'm obsessed with doing fitness videos. My boyfriend, Andrew, is just as active. He plays on several intramural teams…
Too Much Honesty, I Can't Take It

I don't need to know it all. How much honesty is too much honesty in romantic relationships? (Although I can vouch for the same in friendships) I have been confronted with this question this week and I wanted to ask my…
Is Your Opposite Sex Friendship a Threat to Your Relationship?

Can men and women be just friends? That’s a question that has been asked, discussed, wondered and pondered about ad nauseam. I stand very firmly on my response to that question. Of course men and women can be jus…
Let's Talk: Promposal

Let’s talk about prom. I was sitting in my ninth grade English class when I was asked to mine. I had become good friends with Jordan, a south Asian guy, who sat next to me in class. I was a shy girl with low self…
Keeping In Touch with the Family After a Break-Up

If you've read any of my last posts you already know I recently broke up with my boyfriend. We were together for a little over three years and throughout that whole time I got along great with his family; mainly his s…
Your Dreams Are Not What You Thought They'd Be

I make no apologies for my mild obsession (okay, fine...obsession) with the HBO television series Girls. If you don't know what the hell I am talking about or haven't seen the show yet, love reading Datingish and are b…