“You know what makes me feel AWESOME about myself? Messy heartbreak!” – No-one, ever. When you’ve deeply loved someone and that love dissolves or meets a sudden end, it can jolt you out of reality into a cloudy, confused state where you feel low, lost and alone. And, if you’ve ever suffered from self-esteem issues...
Tag: Relationships
Post
How to be Loved When You’re Black & Broken
Content Warning: This article contains topics such as trauma and suicide Do I deserve love from others when I can’t love myself? Can I learn to love myself when I am broken as hell? To this day, I struggle with these questions. Being a black, queer, agender person, I’ve been through hell and back. I...
Post
Avoiding Message Fatigue: How to Get to the Dating Part of Online Dating
by Lu C. Huynh For those of you who haven’t had the pleasure of online dating, you’re missing out on heart-racing sparkling conversations over messaging platforms that will create romance butterflies the size of Texas in your stomach. Psych. I wrote that entire sentence to intensify the dramatic let down that online dating has in...
Post
The Perils of Online Dating
By Lu C. Huynh The internet dating scene is full of dick pics, and you plan to online date, it’s best to accept this now. Let’s not confuse things. There’s a time and place for perversion; perversion is not bad. Kinky public sex, naughty escapades in the workplace, doing that cosplay shit that involves latex. I’m...
Post
9 Ways to Navigate the Holidays With Your Conservative Family
Say it with me now: “I will not disrespect my elders, nor will I be their punching bag.” Sometimes finding a balance between respecting and disrespecting my elders is tough. I know that struggle. I grew up in the south, and I was taught to show respect to my elders, regardless of how wrong...