Understanding your attachment style
Emily Bi/File
Each attachment style — secure, anxious, avoidant and fearful-avoidant — are used to describe the way people are in relationships with others
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A playlist for summer love
For all of those summer relationships, summer loves, summer flings: Here is a playlist devoted to you.
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Interabled, but mutual caretakers
Embracing Disability
I really dislike the term “caregiver” in the context of a romantic relationship because it implies a dependency that is not mutually reciprocated.
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Loving my honey and silk
Cal in Color
The road since the start of this year has been long, but as a Chinese American student here, I think I’ve finally come to love my honey and silk.
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Breakups are hard, moving on is harder: How to cope with heartbreak
It’s no secret: Breakups are hard. Here are some post-breakup coping mechanisms. Hopefully, they will help you like they’ve helped me.
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Make new friends in quarantine, keep old ones too
We’re at the year mark since the pandemic started, and you might be losing hope in making new friends and motivation in keeping old ones.
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Quarantine and relationships: Hard to hold on, harder to let go
Sometimes, letting go is necessar to improve the most important relationship of our lives — the one we have with ourselves.
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Holding reins: Empowering women to take leads in dating
The tradition of gender roles dictates that women and gender-nonconforming people should be passive and men should be active. But is this the best for them?
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The intimacies of shower sex
Sex on Tuesday
The pure intimacy of sharing a shower can also bring a false kind of connection between two strangers — one that mimics the closeness felt in relationship sex but lacks the deep meaning partners might share.
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Unconditional love
Off the Beat
I found it difficult to distinguish between the great-grandmother who had given me endless validation and the great-grandmother who would beg for the same reassurance in return.
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