I was 20 years old and deeply unhappy. I had few friends and very little social life. I spent most of my time in my bedroom, with the door closed, watching films and wondering how to meet people. I didn’t think much of myself. The systemic rejection of everyone I had known in high school left

We met at a bar in his hometown and hit it off right away. I should have known something was up when he told me a close “friend” of his worked at a strip club as a bartender/shot girl and he hung out where she worked because of the free drinks. In retrospect, guys don’t go to strip clubs for

I got married at age 23, and on our three-year anniversary, my now ex-husband and I signed our final divorce papers.I'd always dreamed of getting married, but I'd always dreamed about a lot of things. I wanted to go to a four-year liberal arts college. I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to raise

Something finally broke inside me. It snapped on a Saturday night in West Philly at a house party full of strangers in bad costumes. If I’d been paying closer attention, I might have heard the tear or pop that my emotional core made when it was ripped right down the middle. But I was a little

My boyfriend and I have been happily together for almost three years now. That being said, we have been in a unique situation for the entirety of those three years. To start with, we are 27 years apart in age (gasp!). Legit, we are rockin’ Celine Dion and Rene.Additionally, he ...Continue