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Sleepless in Fallujah

I just broke up with my girlfriend of seven months. We fought constantly but the sex was amazing. Reviewing my relationships, it seems I have the best sex in the volatile ones – those where we argue

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Thursday, July 23, 2015 12:00 am

Mourning breath

By Amy Alkon

I was engaged to a woman 20 years ago. We were in college and in our mid-20s. I realized that I wasn’t ready to get married and called off the engagement. I loved her and wanted to stay with her, bu

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Thursday, July 16, 2015 12:00 am

Requiem for a scream

By Amy Alkon

I’m a 28-year-old woman in a relationship with a really great guy. The problem is, it started as a hookup, and I faked my orgasm. I didn’t announce I was having one, but I, um, made certain

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Thursday, July 9, 2015 12:00 am

Emotion sickness

By Amy Alkon

Last week, my girlfriend was all annoyed about something (something relatively unimportant). I’m normally not a bad listener, but I was getting stressed out just hearing about this. I blurted out, �

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Thursday, July 2, 2015 12:00 am

Crowd Mary

By Amy Alkon

I’m trying to take a break from dating and work on myself because I keep ending up with really jerky guys. I’m an extrovert – very social and outgoing – and I find it hard to just chill

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Thursday, June 25, 2015 12:00 am

Beyond thunderdomes

By Amy Alkon

I have a great circle of female friends, but one of “the group” has a way of making backhanded comments about my appearance that make me feel bad about myself. Her latest topic is my breasts and h

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Thursday, June 18, 2015 12:00 am

Dork matter

By Amy Alkon

I’m just out of a bad relationship and ready to start dating. I recently met a guy I liked at the mall. There was definitely a physical attraction and we had a lot in common, but not an hour a

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Thursday, June 11, 2015 12:00 am

Owe, baby, baby

By Amy Alkon

My girlfriend always cries that she’s “broke.” I just ended up buying her groceries and paying to have her car fixed, and then I discovered by accident that she’d recently paid hundreds of dol

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Thursday, June 4, 2015 12:00 am

Rise and spine

By Amy Alkon

My fiance is good friends with his ex-girlfriend from college. (We’re all in our 30s.) She isn’t a romantic threat, but she’s become a source of stress. Long before I met my boyfriend

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Thursday, May 28, 2015 12:00 am

The file high club

By Amy Alkon

A year ago, a co-worker I had a crush on made moves on me after hours at work, and we stopped just short of having sex. I saw him as a potential boyfriend, and I emphasized that I was not interested i