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My Ex Is Spilling the Tea About Me on Social Media; How Do I Make Him Stop?
My ex is very active on social media. Whenever he is upset or annoyed with me, he writes about me in a condescending manner. He doesn’t say my name, but I know it’s about me because I know what’s going on. So do my friends. I’ve asked him so many times to stop, but he…
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10 Thoughts After Watching Netflix’s Excellent Nina Simone Documentary
I love being on the road, seeing the world, working on sets and getting paid to do what I love, but I also miss out on a lot. I suppose I could have made time to see What Happened, Miss Simone?, the highly anticipated documentary about Nina Simone, when it landed on Netflix in late…
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Sorry, There’s No Easy Way to Win Her Back After You Stopped Calling
Help me out, D. I was dating a woman long distance, and things started to head into relationship territory pretty fast (three months). I felt pressured and basically stopped hitting her up as much and being less responsive to slow things down. She reacted terribly and cut me off for being inconsistent. I was relieved…
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I’m Considering Liposuction, but My Boyfriend Hates the Idea
I’ve lost 40 pounds and have 20 more that I would like to lose. I love my body, but I have a trouble area that will not budge with exercise and clean eating. I have decided to get liposuction if I lose the rest of the weight and the area still hasn’t budged. I feel…
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Black or White: Texas Woman’s Story About Her Recent Discovery Seems a Little Shady
My first real job out of college was working for People magazine. In the early 2000s, I was a stringer for the mid-Atlantic region. The fun part of my job description was running around Washington, D.C., attending events and asking well-known people about their latest project or intimate nuggets about their lives. The grueling part…
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You Can’t Be the Next Wife if the Ex-Wife Still Comes 1st
My long-distance significant other and I have been dating for a little over two years. It’s serious. Ring shopping has happened; he’s met my dad (no man in my life ever gets to meet Dad). Anyway, his daughter’s birthday is coming up, and we agreed that I would be attending this year. I couldn’t last…
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Don’t Waste Your Pretty on a Man Who Won’t Spend His Time on You
I dated a guy for five months. We had a talk and he said he wasn’t ready for a relationship yet. Things fell off after that. I saw him about a month after the conversation, and he mentioned that we should see each other more, at least once a week. Didn’t happen. I let him…
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Keeping the Peace When My Fiance and Friend Clashed
I haven’t watched last week’s episode of the TV show I’m currently on, Blood Sweat and Heels. I had a digital copy of the episode before I boarded a plane at JFK Airport on an international flight last week. I haven’t seen the episode because I don’t want to. Let me explain: This season has…
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Dating a Mentor Who’s in a Relationship Will Only Bring Double the Trouble
I’m a 30-year-old female, and I have a male mentor who is in his mid-50s. He has been instrumental in helping me navigate through my professional life. We have great conversations. I feel there is a connection. I’m not sure if he feels the same. We talk about both personal and professional things, we’ve hung…
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Let’s Get 1 Thing Straight: How I Wear My Natural Hair Is None of Your Concern
“I wonder what you would look like with straight hair,” a woman commented on my Instagram page. I’d just posted a picture from an event I was attending. It was a big deal—to me, anyway. I had two-strand-twisted my natural hair that morning, then sat under the dryer that afternoon so there’d be a chance…
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