The IR Dating Coward
Love and Xanax
Loveawake Dating and Occam’s Razor
Sharing Your Sordid Past
Interracial Sex Tourism
Canadian Personals
Juggling Five at Once (Poorly)
Bisexual and Transgendered: Dating Options
One Paw Forward, One Fear-Based Step Back
Best Friends And Boyfriends
Rapunzel and The Bitter Old Troll
Getting Over Him
Take Me Unseriously
There Must Be SOMEthing I Can Do!
Fairytale Romance, Outsiders Don’t Approve.
New Year’s Eve Anonymous Confession
Lost in Translation
How Much Time is Too Much Time?
Be the Nice Guy Women Can’t Resist
Ditched by a Runner
Cute Guy, Messed Up Teeth
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Collateral Damage of the Culture Wars[font=Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif]Sometimes I wonder how much am I “the victim” I am and how much of a “villain” he is. I think we are both more collateral damage of the culture wars.[font=Georgia, "Bitstream Charter", serif]People expect me to be very angry with the LGBTQ community because of my experience, but I am not. I am very sympathetic to them especially BECAUSE of my experience. However, often I do not feel like I have a community. I am not gay but I have lived on the fringes of the LGBTQ community most of my life. Straight society doesn’t really know what to do with me either. I am not the typical Midwestern housewife who concerns herself with the comings and goings of her children, cellulite, and low-fat taco recipes. My own family doesn’t know what to do with me. They would like for me to be the “spinster” aunt for childcare of my nieces or to be a companion to my mother (who’s health is fine and should really make her own friends) but I live an hour and a half a way in a big city with my own life. My “peer group” are mostly artists and most of whom are either single, divorced, our have been divorced and remarried. Funny how married people don’t have much to do with single people unless there is late night drinking or partying to be had. To paraphrase The Color Purple about Shug Avery, “No one likes someone who is too proud and too free.”