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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.”
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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My grandmother was my best friend. And she was dying. Could my new relationship stand the heaviness of my sorrow? But I had to tell him about my grandmother, a woman he’d never met but who made up my whole world.
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Up to 60 countries may be stalled at the first shots of their COVID-19 vaccinations because nearly all deliveries are blocked until as late as June.
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New versions of COVID-19 vaccines are now being tested in case they ever are needed to protect against mutated versions of the virus.
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To replace the Valencia site, officials will open two new ones: at College of the Canyons in Santa Clarita and at Palmdale Oasis Park Recreation Center.
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Coronavirus and COVID-19 pandemic and health news.
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With coronavirus cases and related hospitalizations climbing nationwide, is California also headed for a fourth wave in the COVID-19 pandemic?
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University of California admissions officers explain their decisions in a year of record applications that brought widespread heartbreak and some joy for high school seniors competing for spots.
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After a hiatus and investigation, “The Talk” returned Monday with Sheryl Underwood and her co-hosts opening up about Sharon Osbourne’s behavior.
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Macaulay Culkin and Brenda Song, known for their respective roles in “Home Alone” and “The Suite Life of Zack & Cody,” are new parents to a baby boy.
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Readers vote Orel Hershiser’s scoreless innings streak as the sixth-greatest moment in Dodger history.
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Since 2016, Mater Dei and St. John Bosco have met in every Southern Section Division 1 final, so since there are no playoffs this season, Saturday’s game between the two unbeaten powers serves as the unofficial Division 1 championship game.
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