On the Inhumane Treatment of Ex’s
Last week delivered me a doozy couple of days. There was the brusque one-armed pseudo salute of someone who once told me they always wanted me as part of their life, no matter what. Which I understood. I’m not his favorite person anymore – and sometimes we make promises we intend to keep but cannot. […]
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Sometimes I found myself mentally begging to nobody in particular, One day my heart will stop hurting, right? Then I looked up at my bookshelf and saw the mirror reflecting a pennant that hung on my wall: You have the heart of a lion. And I remembered that the only person who can resolve […]
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Glow Little Spark, Glow
It is far too easy to sit in your studio apartment, writing someone else’s wedding vows as your mind flickers to an ex getting married at the exact same moment, and start to worry that this right here might be your life. Pristine white blinds, walls, china cabinet, built-ins that mimic the blank taste in […]
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They Never Go Away
Ed note: Folks, meet Christine! She’s the second in guest blogger to enter the 50/50 arena (giving you fresh voices, new points of view, and a little extra time for Alicia to work on her book and Megan to finish the movie. Christine is a veteran to online dating – it’s even how she met her […]
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Why Dating As An Adult Is Sometimes A Lot Like Dating As A Teenager
A few weeks ago I went to the wedding of a dear friend. While thrilled to celebrate her union to a rather sensational man, I was reminded of something that had very little to do with nuptials: the adulthood datingverse feels one heck of a lot like the teenage datingverse sometimes. One of the pros […]
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We Don’t Always Remember What We’re Made Of
It’s amazing how you can be told the same thing over and over again, by a variety of people (occasionally even by fate/the universe/the powers that be at large), and the message refuses to sink in, until one day, the right person in the exact right situation tells you and TA-DA! Dust falls from certain levers […]
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