relationships

If you’ve been looking for a guide on how to soften yourself, or want to know if you really need to, this guide may be helpful.

I ran a girls group with a group of teens between the ages of 10 and 17 for three years. Here are the ten biggest things I learned.

I’ve identified as asexual for about five years, but I’m experiencing attraction in a new relationship. How do I talk to my partner about this?

By all means, effective use of contraception, all by itself, goes a long way. Those who can access and consistently and correctly use a very effective form of contraception are very unlikely to become pregnant. But that group can be smaller than it may seem.

My parents’ relationship made me deeply insecure. Insecure about the way I looked, insecure about my future prospects, and mostly insecure in my romantic relationships.

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

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.

Know how sometimes when something is wonky with a laptop or a phone, we need to shut it all down and give the machine a full reboot?

What would I communicate to teenage Lisa? What important thoughts about dating, relationships, life, and anything else would I say to my younger self?

For as long as I could remember, I had a tight foreskin. When I was younger, I didn’t realize there was an issue, and that not everyone’s penis looked like mine. As I got into my teenage years, I began to realize that it was *too* tight.