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I Chose Not To Have Sex For Years, But I’m Ready To Get Back Out There
Billie Walker
Aug 10, 2023
Relationships
Single Files: Dating Is Important To Me, But My Recovery Is My Priority
Avalon Afriyie
Jun 1, 2023
Single Files
Now I’m Single, I Only Date Men In Open Relationships
Anonymous
Apr 26, 2023
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
Single Files
Single Files: I Realized I’m The Problem In Dating – & It S...
One stiflingly hot evening in late August, I found myself in a bar in east London watching as the words “typing” disappeared and reappeared at the top
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Anonymous
Single Files
What 150 First Dates Taught Me About Dating Burnout
After breaking up with the person I thought was my person — he didn’t want kids but I realized I do — I threw myself back into the dating pool headfi
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Sara Radin
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Single Files
I Have Herpes, And Here’s How It Has Affected My Dating Life
Laying on my back, spread eagle in front of a person I just met is never how I want my stories to start, but alas, that was the beginning of one of the mos
by
Lexi Inks
Mental Health Awareness
My Ex Stalked Me & Shared My Naked Photos. Non-Monogamy Helped Me...
I could feel the space between me and S. getting smaller and smaller, our legs slightly touching. My knee found its way to hers underneath the table, and s
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Norma Buster
Single Files
My Parents Were Sex-Positive & Polyamorous Before It Was Cool
I was in third grade when I first heard my parents having sex. We’d just moved, and my room was on the other side of the small house. I had trouble sleep
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Dylan Blair Bass
Single Files
I’ve Been Celibate For 3 Years & I Feel More Sexually Empow...
I had just lost a baby. I force fed myself tequila as I wailed over the phone to my best friend hundreds of miles away, and waited for my ex-boyfriend —
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Desiree Johnson
Single Files
Searching For More Than a Meet-Cute
In January, when Omicron closed up much of the world, I rented an Airbnb. It was a temporary refuge between living with family and finding my new apartment
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Nayantara Dutta
Single Files
I Used To Worry I’d Die Before I Fell In Love
The women in my family knew pain. They understood what it meant to live harmoniously with the kind of pain that comes from a body’s betrayal. My mot
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Zainab Onuh-Yahaya
Dating Stories
Dating With Severe Asthma: How I Learned To Put Myself First
I was nine when I went on my first date. He was a boy from elementary school who lived in the neighborhood and invited me over to his house to watch a movi
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Lilly O'Leary
Single Files
My Immigrant Parents Want Me To Settle Down — & I Will, But IR...
“Marriage is not a business deal,” I repeat often and fervently to my parents. They consistently reply to me in mindless unison: “We just want you to
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Jessica Thevarajah
Single Files
How Becoming A Sorority Mom Helped Me Move On After My Divorce
Without looking at the clock, I knew the time was approximately 5:40 p.m. The noise outside my closed office door started to grow as 5:45 p.m. approached,
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Emily Courter
Single Files
I’m Asexual & Partners Always Think I’ll Change My Mi...
I started using dating apps for the same reason most people do. I wanted to find the one — my one, a person who would be by my side through the diff
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Casey Clark
Single Files
What I Lost & Found When I Froze My Eggs
Thirty-six. That was the fertility deadline I gave myself, somewhat arbitrarily, when I was in my 20s. If I was still single when I was 36, I decided, I wo
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Lindy Mockovak
Single Files
Once I Stopped Drinking, I Started To Love Dating
I dated the way I drank. In binges, marked by regret and heartbreak. Never knowing when to stop. My first kiss was at age 12. My second was at 18, th
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Sarah Wood
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Single Files
I’m 35, Single, & Moved To A New City Alone. Then, The Pand...
I left LA after 11 years, just as I had arrived — alone and quietly, without any fuss. As a single woman in my 20s, I fell in love with the city, r
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Rachel Rowland
Single Files
How I Reclaimed Desirability As A Black Woman After A Breakup
After the end of my first relationship, I couldn’t escape the feeling that the relationship was a fluke. Or, rather, that my ex’s attraction to me was.
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Sarah Githugu
Single Files
Now That My Kids Are Grown, I’m Learning To Love Being Single
It is 4:54 p.m. on a bleak Wednesday in November. I’m walking back home after hiking to the lake down the road, an audiobook in my ears to protect me fro
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Jennifer McGuire
Single Files
My Dad Is Chronically Ill & It Makes Dating Complicated
My father fell into illness the way Ernest Hemingway described going bankrupt — gradually and then suddenly. At first, there was an accretion of mild ill
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Sabrina Qiao
Single Files
After Coming Out As Non-Binary, I Found Strength In Being Single
I met my most recent ex while I was in drama school. He was auditioning for a play in which I had already been cast. He was already the favorite for the ro
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Caspian Faye
Single Files
I Became a Cat Lady During the Pandemic and It’s Pretty Coo...
Hi, you don’t know me but I got your number from [mutual friend]. I’ve found some kittens near my house who have been abandoned by their mother. They s
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Ria Chopra
Single Files
My Breakup TikToks Went Viral & Then Everything Changed
I never considered myself to be someone who would put my happiness in someone else’s hands. I’ve always been very independent; I value my space and put
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Amelia Samson
Single Files
After My Breakup, I Looked For Comfort In The Kitchen
Last fall, I moved from New York City to Europe to intern at a fine-dining restaurant, where I suddenly found myself struggling to blend in with a staff of
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Shayna Goodman
Single Files
I’m 27, I’ve Never Been In A Relationship, & I’m Starting To Thin...
Growing up, I always thought of romance as inevitable. Like hitting puberty, I saw being in a relationship as a milestone of sorts, one that everyone event
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Sana Panjwani
Single Files
I’m A Self-Help Writer. Post-Breakup, I Realized I Didn’t Know Ho...
When I was 31 years old, I went through a tumultuous breakup that should have happened two years earlier. I had ignored our recurring financial disputes, h
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Lisa Cleary
Single Files
I’m Single, But I Get All The Romance I Need From My Friendships
For many years, I considered myself to be an awkward loner. And it’s true that I was my own first friend — and an extraordinarily good one, at that. F
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Tšhegofatšo Ndabane
Single Files
I Dated Different Versions Of The Same Guy For Years. Here’s How ...
If you were to ask me how I was doing, say, two years ago, I would’ve offered up some variation of: “I’m good!” And I was! I had just landed
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Morgan Sullivan
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