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Family It Is One Thing To Date Your Father But There Is No Excuse For Not Knowing The Difference Between The Tudors And The Hapsburgs
That "Dating Your Dad" article over at NYMag is really upsetting inasmuch as the subject confuses the Tudors with the Hapsburgs (and dates her dad).
Health “Are You Angry With Me?”: Dating as an Autistic Woman
Hope Whitmore on the particular challenges of dating as an autistic woman.
Dads What to Do with a Dad Once You’ve Got One
Diana Hurlburt on her father's suicide, and trying to make sense of what to do with the stepfather who showed up in his place.
Humor The Secret to a Happy Marriage
"Grow a row of teats like a she-wolf" and other secrets to having a happy marriage.
Relationships Against Domesticity
Randa Jarrar on why she will never again live with a romantic partner.
Advice Aunt Acid: Advice for Being Deemed Second-Best
The Toast's Aunt Acid advice column on what to do when someone else is chosen over you romantically.
LGBT The Places in Between
Amanda Leduc reflects on lost faith and lost love.
Relationships A Tremendous Fish
Sarah Viren on fishing and first love.
LGBT “Five Anniversaries”: On My Same-Sex Marriage(s)
Lindsay King-Miller on her five different same-sex wedding anniversaries, as the government slowly catches up to what she already knew.
LGBT “Who Left All These Feelings in This Friendship?”: The Memoir of a Baby Queer
Erin Ober and Amy Sweeny outline the path that leads to being a baby queer.
Politics I Don’t Feel Weak When I’m Angry
On the strength of being angry, and trying to explain having once been technically an "ecoterrorist" when you're on a date with an anthropologist.
Advice Clopen Relationships: Love Advice from a Polyamorous Monogamist
Yana Tallon-Hicks on why being polyamorous is not the be-all and end-all of human evolution, and also how not to mess it, or monogamy, up.
Health Sugar and Spice and a Medical Device: Love and Diabetes
Thea Goodrich on diabetes, young love and her insulin pump.
Relationships “It Hurts”: On Domestic Violence
A personal narrative of domestic violence.
