Stories about dating, desire, secrets, and the moments that don’t go as planned. Choose a topic or browse older stories below.
February 2025
January 2025
- You’re Dating Someone Who Is Seeing Other People. Now What?
- Is This Relationship Worth Continuing to Work On?
- The Affair Continued After We Agreed to Start Again
- When Your Partner Says They Felt Pressured Into Sex
- After You’ve Cheated: Accountability Before Reassurance
- I Turned My Neighbor’s Window Into a Habit
- He Called Me Messy While Refusing to Share the Cleaning
- The Condom Box and the Investigation Nobody Requested
- My Husband Turned My Workout Into a Spectator Sport
- Money Questions on Early Dates: Curiosity, Compatibility, and Privacy
- Two Accounts of Betrayal, and Two Different Endings
- I Stopped Drinking. My Friends Kept Offering Reviews of My Personality.
November 2024
- Five Marriage Myths That Did Not Survive the Laundry
- Ten Months After the Affair, I Still Did Not Trust Her
- My Husband Contacted an Adult Account. Then It Threatened to Expose Him.
- Wanting a Relationship Without Giving Up Your Independence
- He Said “I Love You” During Sex. Did He Mean It?
- How to Talk About a Partner’s Fantasy Without Making Assumptions
- Want to Kiss Him? Make the Interest Clear
October 2024
- Date Night Ended. His Game Had Just Begun.
- The Millionaire Who Advertised His Money and Disliked the Responses
- We Both Liked Museums. We Wanted Different Kinds of Dating.
- How to Write a Love Note That Sounds Like You
- Can a Doctor Tell Whether You’ve Had Sex?
- What Does “Outie” Mean When People Talk About the Vulva?
- I Helped Her Prepare for the Big Night. I Thought We’d Celebrate Together.
- My Boss Called It Networking. Then She Asked Me to Cover for Her.
- A Man’s Role in a Relationship: Be a Partner People Can Rely On
- When Exhaustion Starts Looking Like Emotional Distance
- I Like Her. I’m Exhausted by the Time Our Date Begins.
- We Agreed to a Threesome. He’d Already Been Messaging Her for a Month.
- His Family Kept Calling Me His “Best Friend” Instead of His Wife
- Compliments That Show You Have Been Paying Attention
- “I’m Actually 50. The App Won’t Let Me Change It.”
- We Keep Getting Back Together, but Never Stay Together
- Unwanted Attention Is Not a Failure of Confidence
- Considering Webcam Modeling? Look at the Work Behind the Camera
- Trust Your Discomfort Without Treating It as Proof
- She Was Taking Intimate Photos. Were They for Someone Else?
- I Cared About Her. I Wasn’t Sure We Should Attend the Wedding Together.
- Does Height Matter in Dating? It Depends Who Is Dating.
- My Girlfriend Was Getting Attention. I Was Providing Commentary.
- We Scheduled Sex. By 1:30 a.m., We Were Both Resentful.
- She Hasn’t Had Sex in a While. Reality TV Makes It a Crisis.
- When Is the Right Time for Intimacy in a New Relationship?
- When Sex Is All About Your Partner, How Do You Speak Up?
- I Returned to Dating at 45. My Expectations Were Still 30.
- “You’re My Person” Was Not an Agreement About Exclusivity
- The Handbag Was Expensive. My Explanation Was Getting More Elaborate.
- When Your Sexual Preferences Change in a Long Relationship
- My Ex Returned. I Did Not Have a Speech Prepared.
- She Packed the Lingerie. I Wrote the Rest of the Itinerary.
- My Husband’s Secret Second Refrigerator
- My Father Keeps Starting Over. The Women He Leaves Behind Cannot.