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He would say he didn’t know if things were going to last with his girlfriend. It kept me thinking, “What if they do break up and we have a real shot?”
Thanks to therapy, to the pandemic, to stillness, to time and unbearable loneliness, I am looking back on all the people that have entered my life over the years as gifts.
The Netflix show “Firefly Lane” sparked me to reconsider my friendships as the pandemic world reopens.
I was sitting in a bar with two friends and looking at my Tinder app. Edan’s nickname popped up. Wait. It couldn’t be my sixth-grade crush, could it?
The social media posts that bum me out? Sober birthdays or anniversaries by single guys. They deserve heart emojis, but my heart holds a deeper story.
I told my best friend that I wasn’t sure whether it was a date or just a casual meetup. When Andrew showed up at my house in a T-shirt, shorts and flip-flops, I thought: ‘OK, not a date.’
I am the invisible “B” in LGBTQIA+ — and I deserve to be seen. “Bierasure” is one of the lesser known issues that plague the LGBTQIA+ community. It’s the tendency to ignore and falsify evidence of bisexuality and its existence, and it leads to painful reactions when someone comes out as bisexual.
It’s been one year with him. One year without my mom, who died shortly after we started dating. How do I love, when I carry this certainty that love is always lost?
“You can wear high heels,” he said in a voice that conveyed this would turn him on. “I don’t wear high heels anymore,” I responded. “They’re too uncomfortable.”
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Look, I’m 37 and in a no-B.S. zone. What you see is what you get. I’m at the point in my life where I’d rather get everything out on the table on Day One so there are no unwanted surprises.
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I had been traveling the world and was about to head out for a new adventure — Australia. Then, someone mentioned her name: Laura.
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A therapist explained that violent traumas can make all your inner emotions flare. All your conflicts, even those years old and long buried. And so I confessed it all. All my struggles. And this time, with the therapist’s help, I recognized that I was a woman.
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A summer romance to me is two people living every moment with joy, even as they realize summer will end. Dave Wylie and I had a three-year ‘summer romance.’
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I was determined to make 2020 my year to break out of my dating rut. But the pandemic would shut down even the possibility of dating in a way that I never could have imagined.
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As much as I fantasized about my life with a partner, I also fantasized a life without one. But then I met Andrew, just as the world around us was shutting down. Did this fledgling romance — my first — have a chance to survive?
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We collected some of our favorite L.A. Affairs columns — which run weekly in the Los Angeles Times, and chronicle the ups and downs of dating in Los Angeles and the search for love — into a new book. Here’s a sneak peek at a few of the columns you’ll find inside. Hint: The book would make a fab V-Day gift!
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I was proud of myself for getting to a place where I could love a man who could love me back. Nothing was perfect, but we were both growing. Then, she texted.
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I enjoyed so many deep, fulfilling, nourishing relationships and friendships with people from work. Now, so many of them are gone. And it’s doubtful I will ever — ever — see them again.
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Maybe some are treating the dating-during-coronavirus process more respectfully, maybe it’s different in the straight world, but pandemic or no, the state of courtship is dismal.
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Coming out is a lonely experience, and while I had friends and support along my journey, friends and support do not do the work for you.
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I was still recovering from breast cancer. And my heart was shattered. I vowed I wouldn’t get back out in the dating world until I had worked through my fears and would take as much time as I needed to heal before attempting a new relationship.
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I was starting a new life in a new place with new friends, new opportunities and a whole new outlook. I hoped my love life would be looking up soon too.
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She caught me off guard when she turned to me and said, ‘Why didn’t you ever ask me out again?’
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Most of my 20s were wasted on rummaging through the miserable wreckage that is the L.A. dating pool. But I thought this guy was different.
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With testing a requirement as schools reopen for in-person classes, 72 staff members and 105 students were found to have the virus.
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The county’s latest allocation, approximately 362,000 doses, is up nearly 39,000 from last week, according to the Department of Public Health.
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Public health officials worry that their budgets will be slashed when the pandemic recedes and they’ll once again be unprepared for a health crisis.
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Coronavirus and COVID-19 pandemic and health news.
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In Scottsdale, Ariz., actor Steven Seagal is seeking $3.4 million for his desert retreat lined with bulletproof glass.
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Singer Demi Lovato slammed L.A. fro-yo shop the Bigg Chill for what she called promoting toxic diet culture. The store, and its many fans, hit back.
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The email lands at a sensitive time for the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn., which has come under pressure for not having any Black members as well as allegations of ethical and financial lapses raised in a Times investigation.
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On the Florida coast, a three-story home owned by LeBron James when he played for the Miami Heat just sold for $12.75 million.
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Officials have said they don’t plan to issue COVID-19 vaccine “passports.” That didn’t stop them from giving businesses an incentive to require them.
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For children in kindergarten and transitional kindergarten, school itself is terra incognita. April is the first time many have been in a classroom.
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