I used to think all that game playing was par for the course and even kind of exciting. It just felt logical to pursue a boy the same way I applied to college—by expending exorbitant...

Some scientists hypothesize that having children is the only reason romantic love came about. It kept couples together long enough to mate and see a baby through infancy.

It’s like my entire conscious state has been reduced to this toxic blend of hope and uncertainty. I hate that I have to act cool and almost pretend I don’t like him when in fact...

The other big con is whether having sex could cause me to more than just like like Guy. But that could happen even if we don’t sleep together. You don’t even need to date a...

I think how breakups can bring out the worst in the best people, and part of being upset is mouthing off crap you don’t mean.

But when I gave bl0w jobs to my ex, I secretly hated it. What’s pleasant about sucking on a stiff, veiny appendage that spurts pee and sperm?

Blame your body. The whole biological purpose of existence is to mate, so from the time we hit puberty, our hormones are demanding us to couple up. Maybe it’s basic instinct to feel inadequate if...

I hate how it’s so much easier to be open and straightforward to a computer screen than to an actual person.

Once you’ve ridden the roller coaster, the Ferris wheel’s kinda restricting.

I didn’t realize it was possible to obsess over a girl as much as you can over a boy.

In the beginning, I wanted his heart. Then I shifted focus to his body. I was never interested in only friendship.

I can live without a boy. So why does it feel like I’m going to die?

Nothing bonds people more than going through sh_t together, right?

It sucks enough when girlfriends break plans with each other for a boy, but at least that’s not against the natural order of things, like when a boy blows off his girlfriend for friends. ....

Please don’t hate you??!! I hate that I love you. Loving you made me waste a year of my life. Loving you made me be passionate about nothing but you. Loving you made me take...

So it’s all right for him to rule out a serious relationship, but it’s wrong if I’m not ready to settle for less?

It goes back to keeping things equal. Friendship feels really demeaning if one person still likes the other more, which is probably what caused the breakup in the first place. It’s such a misnomer that...

A month ago it would have been my dream just to be in his bedroom watching a movie, but now it’s torture because I want so much more. It’s like my entire conscious state has...

forever” that I’m completely neglecting my present, which I have far more control over anyway.

If love and hate aren’t true opposites, perhaps neither are pleasure and pain—if you go far enough in one extreme, it resembles the other.

How is it that mankind can engineer condoms to prevent pregnancy and STDs and not be able to invent some sort of emotional safeguard? Is it even possible to abstain from falling in love?

everything but.” But now that I have done it, it doesn’t seem nearly as big a deal to do it again.

When presented with a member of the opposite sex, some of us get numbers and some of us throw up.

I wasn’t expecting him to light candles or scatter rose petals. But I just made myself infertile for him, so the least he could’ve done was make the bed.

It’s so evident to me now that just because someone is a great guy doesn’t guarantee we’ll make a great couple, no matter how much I work at it and want it.

Just because the sexes are equal doesn’t mean that sex is.