Relationships

On patriarchal conventions in straight relationships and why we can’t keep leaving them unchallenged — I’ve recently come across a new Tik Tok trend: showing your significant other’s ‘beige flags.’ And as the name suggests, a beige flag is supposed to be something that’s neither explicitly negative — like a red flag — nor positive — like a green one. For instance, it can be…

A demonstration of the power of words when they are felt as you write them — I’m not generally a consumer of romantic content. My appetite is limited for Nicolas Sparks-Esque, “I want all of you, forever, every day. You and me, every day.” It’s mostly a “me” problem. I grew up in a strict military household, where my relationship with male emotions, expressing them, and…

Navigating the Delicate Balance Between Accountability and Overkill — The advent of social media has brought together people from all around the world, like bees in a virtual beehive. In this virtual beehive, the bees are buzzing around with self-righteousness and a sense of superiority in large numbers. These bees will eventually swarm together on the Internet to…

“As you get older, you can energetically feel the difference between people who care about you and those who care at their own convenience” — Family can be the biggest pain in the ass. You don’t get to choose them either. You are born into a family. Some members are good, some are great, and some are sh*tty. I’m fed up with a member of my family. They make me feel like I’m worthless. Like…

Time. What is it? It feels like the working of an intangible force which sets a period to life. Whether we like it or not, we are all moving forward. …

He Thought It Was for the Best — There I was, sitting alone in front of our couple’s therapist again. Another session my husband had not attended. He refused to come last week. This week I had no idea where he was. He hadn’t come home in over forty-eight hours. I would have been sad but I had…

It takes true inner strength to embrace both. — In 2019 (back when I had hair), during my 2nd appearance on Las Vegas NOW, I discussed a Gillette advertisement that some of you may remember as being highly controversial. The ad featured a variety of behavior that was, at the time, being coined as “toxic masculinity.” Gillette as a…