Relationships

Cutting ties with toxic parents
Cutting ties with anyone is never easy, but it can be especially painful when you have to surrender a lifelong relationship with your own parents.
By Haley Hunter4 years ago in Pride
And you call yourself a BiSexual?!
My name is Joe, and I am a bisexual. It wasn't always this way. I was a straight man for many moons. But alas, no more. Loneliness and dark temptations put it to rest, but it wasn't entirely my fault! I was seduced! A very slow and well calculated seduction that, by the time I had realized what was happening, it was already too late...
By Ben Morris4 years ago in Pride
Don’t Tell ME How I was “Socialized”
Someone lamented in a comment section (I know better, and yet…) that she would have preferred “male” socialization, even as it relates to being trans feminine, to her own lived experience.
By Martha Madrigal4 years ago in Pride
Are You in a Healthy Relationship? How to find out
Healthy relationships involve honesty, trust, respect and open communication between partners and they take effort and compromise from both people. There is no imbalance of power. Partners respect each other’s independence, can make their own decisions without fear of retribution or retaliation, and share decisions. Some important keys to a healthy relationship are as follows:
By Abdulrahman Hassan4 years ago in Pride
Fiberglass.
I was shopping for a new mattress. I read all these reviews on the ones that come in a box and puff up when the air hits them. There was this one with a zipper. Don’t open the zipper, they said. They don’t tell you there’s fiberglass inside. It explodes into the air and gets in all your things, your hair, your clothes, your lungs. And I thought. Love. It’s like that. You take a lover to bed and one day you’ve opened that zipper and those tiny shards are everywhere. Memory. Can’t be put back. Not even time can cleanse it. You feel them in your lungs when you take a deep breath after exercise, a fuck. Long after the love bed is gone and way back you regret having ignored the tag that said don’t unzip but you’re curious and fuck it, there’s a zipper on the damn thing. What for if not to open.
By Jen Parkhill “JP”4 years ago in Pride
Under the Bridge
“I can see it now,” Reina muttered, a puff of smoke accompanying her words. She took one last drag before putting out the cigarette on the arm of my aunt’s lawn chair.
By Koda Red4 years ago in Pride
Lessons on Love from an AroAce
It wasn’t until much later that it all began to make sense. Hindsight is like that, blindingly clear when you look back at all the collected memories through eyes wizened by time. Growing up there’s a knowing, even when you’re little, that you’re different. This is long before you’ll learn about concepts like straight and gay and all the other words that exist in between to cut and bruise and leave shame scarred in the places you hide.
By Tonya Johnson4 years ago in Pride
The Spectrum Of Sexy
I think about sex often, and I know I'm not the only one. Most of us desire it, fantasize about it, and dream about it, and it's by far one of the most entertaining subjects of all time. Sex is an amazing, natural, wonderful, hot, pleasurable, fun, and sexy thing, which is no wonder why most of us have some level or form of desire for it.
By Carrie Principe4 years ago in Pride
L is for...
A loud alarm roused Norah from her deep sleep. She fumbled in the half-dark of this still unfamiliar space for her bedside table to shut off the offensive sound. She had stayed up far too late sending flirty messages to a cute little pocket-rocket, whose intense love for Hello Kitty ensured that a couple of drinks and an awkward morning goodbye was all it would ever amount to. And that was how Norah liked it.
By Abi Alexander4 years ago in Pride
Tangled in You
“There weren’t always dragons in the valley, otherwise known as New Gildar, but now the city streets are filled with them. Dragons migrated to Alacia (a-lay-she-a) about 1000 years ago when their home planet of Graneer faced extinction. The Dragon people faced great prejudice when they first landed. Their heavily armed warships did not make them appear very peaceful to the human leadership, but over time they gained the trust of the Jiirai Republic. After even more time the respect of the Alacian people. Now they are one of the most populous and advanced races in New Gildar. As for me personally, I’m so thankful we coexist harmoniously now because when I look at Zephera, I can’t imagine my life without her.”
By Abigail Elyse Anderson4 years ago in Pride
The Wall That Breaks
I lost my best friend two days ago. If she had died, it would be easier. But she's still out there, and now she's utterly alone. I was the only real friend she had.
By Meredith Harmon4 years ago in Pride
Your Little Girl...
Hey mum... I’ve never told you this. I know that I still could. It’s not like I don’t have your number, or like I can’t just walk 20 minutes down the road and knock on your door. It’s not like you’d be mad. It’s not like you wouldn’t still give me a hug before I turned to leave.
By Indie Warren4 years ago in Pride