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relationships

Wedding Day Mistake

How a little wedding day mistake helped strengthen my marriage

Tribe member Amber has a little dose of good therapy for us. Here’s the story of how she turned to yoga and her Buddhist teachings to help her get over a wedding day screw up.

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Usernames and the bridentity crisis

Running an online network, I get an interesting insight into the names that people (women, specifically) use for themselves online. And one of the many ways identity shifts are expressed are through usernames and avatars.

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Processing hetero-normative, non-offbeat relationship diagram

I am just as queer as I always have been, but my current partnership appears totally hetero to an innocent bystander … this has subtly affected my expectations of what a relationship looks like.

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Advice for a newlywed on her wedding night

What’s my advice to a virgin who describes herself as “Scaredy Pants” about having sex on her wedding night? Well, it comes to down to one thing: having sex with herself first.

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My fiance won’t help me with wedding planning: Learning from partnership imbalances

Ariel answers the perennial question: “Why does it seem like all the wedding planning falls to me?”

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9 ways to get your groom involved

Are you having trouble getting your groom to buck up and help with the wedding planning? Or getting him to say anything other than “Sure, whatever…” when you ask him wedding-related questions? These 9 suggestions just might change his attitude from “meh” you “yeah!”