dating

Navigating dating as a young parent is always going to be more complicated than dating without kids, but it’s a worthwhile effort.

My name is Lisa Laman…and I’m an autistic extrovert.

Dreaming about your future with a love that isn’t even a love yet: is doing that a problem? Lisa Laman, romantic dreamer, thinks through it.

My body language announces my distrust of people. This obviously makes it tremendously hard to start new relationships.

If you’re used to only dating women or girls and nonbinary people and only being in straight-passing relationships, it can feel daunting to think about dating guys.

Finding it tough to discover single people in your traditional social outings? Speed dating could seemingly function as a remedy. Lisa Laman checks it out and reports back.

If you have a pass/fail mindset about dating, you might end up labeling almost every dating experience a failure. But what you think is failure can actually be a dating developmental task accomplishment.

Things can and sometimes do go badly on dates. Let’s look at just some of the various ways a date can go wrong and ways to deal with these problems.

Thanks for your question and for sharing so much with us. You ended your question with “What am I doing wrong?” I wanted to start by inviting you to consider all the many, many things you are doing to make your life better: being open with the people in your life about your identity, going to…

If I could pull a “Letter to Me”… what would I communicate to teenage Lisa? What important thoughts about dating, relationships, life, and anything else would I say to my younger self in a letter?