Coupling: Dating, marriage and other relationships

He kills me every night

I was 5 when I saw my mother stabbed by her boyfriend. I don't know how I'll ever be close to a man again

Tamara Lynch Sunday, Jun 23, 2013 11:59 PM UTC 62
Life Love and Sex, dating, PTSD, grief

My boyfriend, the sex addict

I never believed in that diagnosis -- until I dated Jack, and saw what it was like to be powerless to your desires

Laura Barcella Monday, Jun 10, 2013 12:00 AM UTC 53
Life Love and Sex, Coupling

The proposal that ended a friendship

Jeff and I thought we'd found the perfect couple friends -- until one of them made an offer that changed everything

Marilyn Friedman Wednesday, May 29, 2013 11:30 PM UTC 206
Life Love and Sex, Life stories

Sex in a hospital bed

After my husband's traumatic brain injury, we were forced to find an intimacy we'd never known

S. E. Cannon Tuesday, May 28, 2013 11:00 PM UTC 46
Life Love and Sex, Real Families

My open relationship went awry

Sophia wanted to experiment, so I tried to be game. But it ended badly, with a twist I never saw coming

David Farley Monday, May 20, 2013 12:00 AM UTC 95
Life Love and Sex, Life stories

How to fold a thong: A straight man working at Victoria’s Secret

My job at Victoria's Secret taught me a lot about how women dress, but even more about how they talk

Christopher Pilny Tuesday, May 7, 2013 12:00 AM UTC 84
Business Life stories, workplace, lingerie

My virginity mistake

I took an abstinence pledge hoping it would ensure a strong marriage. Instead, it led to a quick divorce

Jessica Ciencin Henriquez Monday, May 6, 2013 1:00 AM UTC 182
Life Love and Sex, Abstinence

I used to love the bride

People think I'm crazy for being in Ellie's wedding party. Four years ago, I thought she was going to marry me

Anna Pulley Tuesday, Apr 9, 2013 11:50 PM UTC
Life Love and Sex, LGBT, Weddings

I was a kept man

It sounds like a male fantasy: Free rent, great sex and lots of drugs. But I was wracked by guilt and inadequacy

Max Schwarz Monday, Apr 8, 2013 1:00 AM UTC 31
Life Love and Sex, Life stories

My year on Match.com

I'd done so many scary things in my life, but this might be the scariest. At the age of 58, I joined a dating site

Anne Lamott Sunday, Mar 31, 2013 11:00 AM UTC 194
Life Life stories, Love and Sex

I sold my soul to Ricki Lake

A provocative Salon essay landed me a spotlight on daytime TV. Then, I had to suffer in it

Nicholas Garnett Monday, Mar 18, 2013 1:00 AM UTC 25
Life Life stories, Love and Sex

My best relationship is with my dog

Friends and therapists say I'm armoring myself with Tova to hide from true connection. I say she's the real deal

Laura Bogart Saturday, Feb 23, 2013 2:00 PM UTC 43
Life Noble Beasts, dogs, Life stories

Lord of the engagement rings

Twice I proposed to women hoping that a fancy band could be enough to convince me we'd last a lifetime

Christian McLaughlin Wednesday, Feb 20, 2013 1:00 AM UTC 34
Life Love and Sex, Marriage

Coming out to my wife

When I told her I was bisexual, and fooling around with men, I knew our marriage was doomed. Instead, it opened up

Mark Bentley Cohen Tuesday, Feb 19, 2013 1:00 AM UTC 73
Life Love and Sex, Bisexuality

My deep, dark secret

A childhood trauma left me with fear of intimacy and a truth about my sex life that's almost too painful to reveal

Tracy Strauss Friday, Feb 15, 2013 11:40 PM UTC 30
Life Love and Sex, Sexual abuse

I wrote my way to true love

When I penned my novel, I wanted a way out of Hollywood and my own misery. I found an agent -- and something else

David Henry Sterry Thursday, Feb 14, 2013 1:00 AM UTC
Life Love and Sex, Coupling

Divorce from my best friend

I clung to the safety provided by Philip. But years into our marriage, I had lost myself, and my connection to home

Dina Nayeri Tuesday, Feb 12, 2013 1:00 AM UTC 28
Life Life stories, Love and Sex

I fooled around with the rabbi

He's a happy family man now, but back when we were teenagers, he gave me a big lesson in sex, religion and guilt

Rebecca Fox Sunday, Feb 10, 2013 2:00 AM UTC 22
Life Love and Sex, Religion, Judaism

Sexual adventures in therapy

My clients come to me with fixed ideas about relationships. But I try to challenge their assumptions -- and my own

Julia Query Tuesday, Feb 5, 2013 1:00 AM UTC
Life Love and Sex, Coupling

Don Juan in a wheelchair

I may have cerebral palsy, but I also have a dirty mind. And one of these days, I'm going to have sex

Gregory Moomjy Saturday, Feb 2, 2013 1:00 AM UTC 16
Life Life stories, The Sessions

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