Heartbreak: it’s genetic. 100 Words from Men of the Future on Love
If You Ever Did Write Anything About Me, I’d Want it to be About Love
April 27, 2013 By 17 Comments
When a former love puts Conner Habib in the hospital, he is left reeling with questions of abuse, betrayal, and a shattered heart.
Open Thread: What Have You Bounced Back From?
March 31, 2013 By 5 Comments
You thought it was going to wreck you for good, but it didn’t. What was it?
First Crush
March 28, 2013 By 2 Comments
When Andy Bodle’s first feelings of love were not returned in kind, he succumbed to desperation.
Loving Black Men: A Personal History
February 4, 2013 By 2 Comments
Johnathan Fields recalls the course of his life so far, as measured by black men he has loved.
Open Thread: What Was Your Teenage Heartbreak Song?
January 31, 2013 By 7 Comments
You listened to it over and over, certain that your heart was shattered and you would never love again. Has it stood the test of time?
Poem: Epitaph … for Skip
January 24, 2013 By 1 Comment
Daniel Lee Fee’s elegy for a young man describes the feelings “neither one of us guys / was brave enough, / simple enough, / to say, / to say out loud.”
New New Salem
January 18, 2013 By 1 Comment
I drew my saber and he aimed the rifle at me. “Don’t shoot,” I said. “It’d be too depressing to die today.” By Brian Allen Carr
When Did You Figure Out What Marriage Isn’t?
January 17, 2013 By 1 Comment
An informal survey among married (and divorced, and separated, and remarried) men.
I Forgive, But My Mind Won’t Let Go
January 13, 2013 By 10 Comments
One man’s journey to forget, after living in “the dungeon of this sub-conscious torture chamber for 15 years.”
Death by Confirmation
November 26, 2012 By 4 Comments
In this Catholic rite of passage, becoming a man permanently alters a boy’s relationship to his father.
The Long Journey Home Has Started
October 17, 2012 By 1 Comment
As Atalwin Pilon nears the farthest point from home, he realizes he will return to different circumstances.
The Insomniac’s Club
October 15, 2012 By 3 Comments
Jackie Summers spends another night with Insomnia. It’s going to be a long one.
I Eat My Pain
October 10, 2012 By 29 Comments
In Jackie Summers’ experience, people are always telling you to “just get over it” when it comes to emotional pain. They rarely, as Jackie does here, tell you how.
My Girlfriend Blacked Out, Then Dumped Me
October 10, 2012 By 29 Comments
A guy who was dumped after his girlfriend blacked out wants Eli and Josie’s help in figuring out what is going on with her.
“Bemoaning the ‘friend zone’ means you had a romantic interest in someone who doesn’t feel the same, and that hurts.”
These are comments by Bay Area Guy, dlz, and Jack on the post “The Friend Zone (or, How “Jerks” Are Made)”.