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Knowing Your Partner’s “Argument Style” Can Be A Relationship Game-Changer
Sadhbh O'Sullivan
Jun 7, 2023
Can We Talk?
How Do I Reveal To My Partner What I Really Want?
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Single Files: Dating Is Important To Me, But My Recovery Is My Pr...
I’d like to preface this by saying I don’t believe in the one. I thought I found the one many moons ago but he’s no longer Earthside, so for the sake
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Avalon Afriyie
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So much of what we understand about relationships and love comes not only from the people we know, but the TV shows, movies, and books we consume. The prob
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Kasandra Brabaw
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Dating Apps Queer Women & Non-Binary People Will Actually Want To...
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When Does Talking To Your Ex Count As Cheating?
A few years ago, I was in a fairly new relationship. One night (when my boyfriend wasn’t there), I went to check my phone where it was charging on the fl
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Izzie Price
Relationships
AI’s Influence Is Growing In The Dating World. Will It Connect Us...
Ask any single person and they’ll tell you, straight up, that dating sucks. These days it’s mainly done online, with singles perusing through a sea of
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Elizabeth Gulino
Unbothered
The Rise of Sex Negative Feminism Among Young Black Women
There is a growing subculture of young women (and girls) who identify as sex-negative feminists, taking to the likes of Twitter and TikTok to express candi
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Hannah Uguru
Sex Toys
12 Honeymoon Sex Toys For A Spicy Start To Your Marriage
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Charlotte Lewis
Dating Stories
At 29, I Finally Opened Up To My Immigrant Mom About Dating
I was 29 when I got the sex talk for the first time. My mom sat at one end of the couch looking at her phone while I sat in the opposite corner scrolling t
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Radhika Menon
Living
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Pema Bakshi
Dedicated Feature
I Lost My Ability To Run — & It Taught Me To Be More Patient With...
Every runner’s journey is different, which is why we’ve teamed up with New Balance to share — and celebrate — their unique stories. Here, w
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Lee Phillips
Unbothered
Why I’m Making Ethical Porn For Black Women
Let’s face it: porn is not going away any time soon — and it has grown more popular with women than ever before. A 2022 survey by adult streaming platf
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Mellie Akpoghene
Single Files
Now I’m Single, I Only Date Men In Open Relationships
Like most women, I grew up conditioned to look at monogamy as both the journey and the destination. I had my share of casual dating, where romantic entangl
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Anonymous
Sex
11 Flavored Lubes That Will Spice Up Your Sex Life
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Kimberly Truong
Wellness
We Asked Cis Men If They’d Actually Take The Male Contracep...
Mood changes. Acne. Low libido. As anyone who’s taken hormonal contraception knows, these are just some of the side effects people prescribed birth contr
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Catriona Morton
Relationships
These Dating Apps Will Help You Score A Vacation Fling
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Erika W. Smith
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Horoscope
How To Date, According To Your Star Sign
Dating can be hard. Even if you meet your ‘ideal’ person, they may not align with your relationship goals, expectations, or personality. One way to byp
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Lisa Stardust
Unbothered
To Leave Or Stay? How Black Women Are Rewriting Relationship Rules
Michelle and Barack Obama’s 10-year rough patch. Tia Mowry’s divorce from Cory Hardrict. Nia Long’s split from Ime Udoka after his years of on-the-jo
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Sofiya Ballin
Relationships
Gwyneth’s ‘I Wish You Well’ Was Immediate — But...
Once, on a cold January evening, I wrote in an iMessage the words: “I wish you well.” I was signing off a text to someone who had behaved less
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Vicky Spratt
Unbothered
I Stopped Waiting For A Relationship To Live A Romantic Life — & ...
It was the last three days of my one-month solo trip in Brazil, and I’d just returned from seven blissful days in Salvador back to Rio, where my journey
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Chanté Joseph
Can We Talk?
How ‘Picky’ Is Too ‘Picky’ When It Comes ...
Thanks for reading Can We Talk?, a sex and relationships column that aims to tackle the burning questions about sex, dating, relationships, and breakups th
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Refinery29 Team
Relationships
‘Dating Rust-Out’ Is Real & It’s Ruining My Love Life
“My love life feels like an endless cycle of people stopping replying on dating apps, boring dates with no spark, or meeting people I actually like and t
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Izzie Price
Single Files
Being Single Isn’t Lonely, It’s An Opportunity For Co...
In the established cultural imagination, the single woman is still kind of a tragic figure. Her mother worries about her; her smug friends are always threa
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Lauren O'Neill
Wellness
Can Peoplehood — The Workout For Your Empathy Muscles — Solve Our...
I’m spilling my guts in a dimly lit room full of strangers. As I sit with nine other New Yorkers in a circle of chairs surrounding a giant candle, I
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Molly Longman
Relationships
How Do You Get Over A Friendship That Ended With No Explanation?
Ever wondered what you’d say to a therapist, given the chance? We asked Dr Sheri Jacobson, a retired psychotherapist with over 17 years’ clinic
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Sadhbh O'Sullivan
Unbothered
I Finally Read bell hooks’
All About Love
& Not To Be Dram...
I was a sophomore in college the first time I heard of bell hooks. As a baby feminist, I was stunned by her assured takes on politics, race, and class, and
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Ineye Komonibo
Can We Talk?
My Partner Is Friends With All Of His Exes — Where Does That Leav...
Thanks for reading Can We Talk?, a sex and relationships column that aims to tackle the burning questions about sex, dating, relationships, and b
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