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If you’re single and don’t necessarily want to be right now, the landscape of 2020 has likely had an impact on your dating life. Almost certainly, at least, these pandemic times have shifted how you go about meeting potential partners: Maybe you typically rely on dating apps for meeting new people, but you no longer […]
I’m a perpetually-single-but-never-actually-single individual who alternately uses my therapist as a professional psychologist, best girlfriend, oracle, dating profile evaluator, horoscope reader, and more when it comes to navigating the dating world. Though I’m ostensibly in therapy to work through past trauma and navigate the anxieties that cripple my work life, sometimes I feel like I […]
Every year since 2007, the birth rate in the United States has dropped, with 2020 seeing the largest annual dip since 1973 at 4 percent. And considering that a May 2020 Guttmacher Institute survey of 2,009 people who identify as women found that more than 34 percent of respondents sought to delay childbearing or decrease […]
In case you’re here to find a magic checklist for how to know if he’s the one, whomever he, she, or they are, I feel obligated to share with you what I’ve told my mother before: I’m not sure if I believe in “the one.” Because when it comes to falling in love, I have […]
The term “social butterfly” is often used to describe, well, a highly social person. And while it’s not a medical term, social psychologists understand and acknowledge it in their work and with patients. “’Social butterfly’ is a term used for people who are socially skilled, extroverted, and well-liked by others,” says William Chopik, PhD, a […]
Premature ejaculation (PE) is a common sexual issue that as many as one in three penis-having men say they experience. It also has pleasure-compromising implications for all parties involved. “There are multiple definitions of PE, but it’s often defined as ejaculation that occurs within one minute of stimulation, or in some cases penetration,” Jess O’Reilly, […]
Every woman in your life could use a little pep talk once in a while. You know how hard your best friends work, how ridiculously jam-packed their schedules are, and how generally exhausted they are—not to mention the impressive amount of BS they put up with on the daily. Because it’s easy to forget, sometimes you […]
Infidelity is typically portrayed as the death of a relationship; the worst case scenario short of the actual death of a partner. But our view of infidelity as “the ultimate betrayal” isn’t necessarily accurate, argues relationship expert Esther Perel. It’s actually rooted in our own problematic views of romantic relationships. Perel recently sat down with […]
A few weeks ago, I got a text message from a guy who ghosted me last summer. I didn’t have his number saved in my phone anymore because I’m pretty quick to delete contacts who are no longer in my life. So I asked who he was (“Same phone, who dis?”), he answered, and I […]
I’ve been on several different forms of birth control in my life. I’ve done the pill, the ring, and finally, fed up with both of these methods (slash worried about the future of women’s health in this country), I pulled the trigger and got an IUD. This involved me going into the doctor’s office and […]
