Sex & Relationships

I Thought You Could Be My Next Boyfriend

December 14, 2012

I had a dream last night. Maybe a nightmare. You were there. We were together in bed, but you were cold and distant. You slept with your back to me. You pulled away, and never looked into my eyes. You used to look deep into them, questioning, wanting to know me, to know who I [...]

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Some Like It Curvy: I’ve Lost My Sex Drive

November 30, 2012

Many women have said to us, “I’ve lost my sex drive. Help!” Have no fear, girls. Curvy Girl Guide is here! Let’s just jump right into this ladies, and allow me to tell you, I can totally empathize. During my last pregnancy, I had sex exactly twice. Two times in nine months. And both times, [...]

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Some Like It Curvy: Sex Videos

November 16, 2012

Do you know what Curvy Girl Guide needed? A little more sex. That’s what our new column, Some Like It Curvy, will be bringing to you. No topics are off limits, and all questions are great questions. We welcome you to make this a place of acceptance, advice, and sisterhood. A place where we get [...]

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The Seven-Year Itch

November 13, 2012

In just a few short months my husband and I will be celebrating our seven-year anniversary. Exciting, right!? I thought so too until my over-active imagination started going crazy and everything that happened became a sure sign that the seven-year itch was upon us. I demanded that my husband start “woo-ing” me as he had [...]

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Why I Didn’t Take My Husband’s Last Name

October 25, 2012

I had the idea of how I wanted an ideal marriage to go long before I ever conceded that I myself might get married one day. I didn’t want kids, and on most days still don’t. I wanted a husband who took as much responsibility for the house as I did. I never would tolerate [...]

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I Was Sexually Manipulated, And I Let It Happen.

October 22, 2012

At 36-year-old, I have been with to the same man for nearly 18 years. I wasn’t a virgin when I got married at age 22. He didn’t take my virginity when we started dating at the age of 18. By the time I met the boy I would eventually marry, I had already punished myself in ways [...]

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The Work Husband Problem

October 11, 2012

My girlfriends were chatting over drinks one evening, and one of them made a reference to her “work husband”. Work husband? What’s that? You know, it’s my best friend at work, who happens to be a guy, that I can go to about anything and just vent. My husband never understands anything I’m telling him about work, [...]

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She Speaks: A Steamy Story of Embracing the “Cougar”

September 13, 2012

At thirty-seven, she had lived at least four lives. She had a cat who had outlasted two husbands, four states, three jobs, and a college degree. She had lived through heartbreak and rebuilt a life for her son and herself. She had everything she needed, and she was the best she had ever been. She [...]

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A Victim’s Voice

September 7, 2012

I’ve had an epiphany (or nine) of sorts. There are a few things that have been clarified in my head over the past few weeks and I felt the need to put them down on paper, or rather in this electronic public diary of sorts, just in case the general goings on of life cloud [...]

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I Won’t Disappear

August 7, 2012

Breaking cycles is a hard thing to do. My parents divorced when I was ten and, though the overwhelming sigh of relief that came over our house after the divorce was refreshing, certainly, no one enters into marriage to fail. My parents married young, still teenagers. My dad was an alcoholic and at the core of [...]

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