Visits: 28 Si lo haces, es posible que nunca pueda separarse de ti. Hace 36 años, mientras estaba embarazada, discutí con mi esposo sobre qué nombre ponerle al bebé. Sabíamos que era un niño y finalmente nos decidimos por el …
Me visto (y actúo) como hombre. Esta es la razón
Visits: 28 Cansada de priorizar a los hombres en mis relaciones, decidí crear mi propio personaje de “drag king”. De movimientos lentos, hablar pausado, con un melancólico sentido del humor, mi amante era en muchos sentidos mi hombre ideal. Así …
Jennifer Graham Likes Jennifer Graham
Visits: 40 She shared my name. How could we not become friends? And how could I not have gone to see her when it mattered most? She had Googled me. Actually, she had Googled herself, and because we have the …
Love Letter: 90 Percent of Love Is Showing Up
Visits: 36 “Life is short. Type fast. Then get in the car and go.” “I learned from her — and from my regrets in the years since — that 90 percent of love is showing up, that we should not …
Tiny Love Stories: ‘Were They Just Using Me?’
Visits: 39 Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. Sam with the Answer My girlfriends made a habit of crushing on my big brother John. Exactly why, I had no clue. He was bespectacled, …
My (Liberating) Secret Shame
Visits: 29 I may be unable to have children, and I am relieved. When I was 16, my mother told me that I would never be happier. Entering womanhood, leaving home, joining the work force, having children — these phases, …
Love Letter: Touch-Free Orgasms, Cryogenics and a Secret Beloved
Visits: 40 Why couldn’t her beloved neighbor tell that they were on a mission to save the world? “Who was that lady shouting gibberish and thrusting her umbrella into the sky in front of her beloved’s house? That was not …
What Is ‘Marriage Language,’ and Are You Speaking It?
Visits: 42 Couples are sharing their weirdest personal dialects on TikTok. The word for a TV remote is marote; for chicken, it’s chimpken, and for the Aperol Spritz cocktail it’s app-a-ball spitz-ee. Shrimp is swimps, hair ties are hair gigglies …
Al terminar la universidad, aposté todo por mi novio
Visits: 26 Cuando mis amigos iban en pos de empleos interesantes y la facultad de derecho, yo me fui a México detrás de un chico. Diez meses después de salir de la universidad, estaba sentada en una pequeña cabaña de …
Pinned Under the Bodies of Men
Visits: 36 I thought being sexually bold was a game I was allowed to play. I had no idea of the punishment that awaited me — or the surprising healing to come. I have been pinned under the body of …