casual dating break up etiquette

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relationship with an expiration date

“my friends would definitively tell you he is my boyfriend, but i have a tendency to say we are in a monogamous relationship and leave it at that. the texan thinks it’s easier to be in an undefined relationship in a major city. for every friend i have in a serious relationship, i have two who are single and desperately want to be in a relationship, and then two who are just dating casually like me. maybe this will change …

relationships after divorce

even months after we split, sundays when my kids are with their dad and i would have otherwise spent with my ex-boyfriend, i instead engaged in unseemly behavior like walking around the streets of manhattan while bawling uncontrollably, listening to john legend on a loop, and reading the wikipedia page on carrie and mr. big. you are likely as i was: needing to go through that rebound and the subsequent pain. it served as a critical point of reference through …

open relationship horror stories

sophia and i were dating a week when we created the list. i had a feeling this would not end well, but i really liked sophia and i was intrigued about the idea of this list. we had a good level of communication, and i wanted to tell her how uncomfortable this whole thing made me. like when we’d go out to lesbian bars in the hope of picking up a woman to bring back to my place. it was …

the problem with overlapping relationships

there are several reasons partners choose to end a relationship in this way, which we’ll examine in this post, along with alternatives to overlapping, and ways to grieve if your partner has chosen to end your relationship by “overlapping”. and, once the overlapper begins to get close to someone new, they may unconsciously start to pull walls up or feel guilt or pressure to end the relationship because of promises to – or honeymoon stage dreams with – a new …